I totally get that. It's good to know where one's limits are.
My husband and I have a long tradition of reading to each other - we traded off books in the Murderbot series, and right now we're working through the Southern Reach trilogy - and sometimes we wind up in an hours-long marathon because we just don't want to put the book down before The End!
But I can only do that when I'm 100% healthy - I once tried to record a project section while I was still getting over COVID and thought my throat had recovered sufficiently, and it turned out that NO IT HAD NOT. Ouch. (It's somewhere in The Jade Story Book but, thankfully, I don't recall which chapter.)
Yes! Thank you! That is exactly the sort of pronunciation feedback I need and don't get in my day-to-day (not least because I don't often find occasion to say "ubiquitous" or "amiable" in casual conversation) so how the heck else am I gonna know?Scarbo wrote: ↑March 3rd, 2024, 1:57 pm I have just a few notes for section 9:
- At 7:55, "and the undistinguished fecundity of the garden," I hear "and the indistinguished fecundity of the garden" (p. 231)
- At 39:30, "Here will I lie," you say "Here I will lie" (p. 248)
You'd mentioned earlier that you were open to pronunciation notes, so here's another case not related to word-perfectness where there's a pronunciation difference, but it's similar enough that you might decide to leave it as is: at 1:41, "damp is silent, imperceptible, ubiquitous," "ubiquitous" is typically pronounced "yubiquitous." (p. 227)
Anyways, Section 9 corrections are up and ready for spot PL:
https://librivox.org/uploads/kitty/orlando_09_woolf_128kb.mp3
1:03:36