Bloopers - 2

ShrimpPhish · Post by **ShrimpPhish** » February 24th, 2025, 4:16 pm

Tricky pair of words.

https://librivox.org/uploads/bloopers/a_turkish_shoulder_sp.mp3

ShrimpPhish · Post by **ShrimpPhish** » February 26th, 2025, 11:51 am

I was reading a section in which a bunch of deaths were noted. I didn't realize that this was a happier circumstance at first.

https://librivox.org/uploads/bloopers/died_dined_sp.mp3

Post by **TriciaG** » March 3rd, 2025, 10:54 am

Others who don't read their text ahead of time must have done this at some point - read, realize you're putting the emphasis/pause in the wrong spot, try again . . . only to be wrong a second time.

https://librivox.org/uploads/bloopers/notreadingahead_tg_blooper.mp3

jpercival · Post by **jpercival** » March 3rd, 2025, 11:37 am

TriciaG wrote: ↑March 3rd, 2025, 10:54 am Others who don't read their text ahead of time must have done this at some point - read, realize you're putting the emphasis/pause in the wrong spot, try again . . . only to be wrong a second time.

https://librivox.org/uploads/bloopers/notreadingahead_tg_blooper.mp3

Oh been there done that. When it's really bad I have to pause and just read the line in confusion a few times before my brain makes sense of how it should be spoken.

Post by **TriciaG** » March 3rd, 2025, 11:40 am

Ooo, yeah, I've done that, too! Sometimes I don't understand the sentence until I'm listening to it while editing.

Post by **mightyfelix** » March 8th, 2025, 5:44 pm

TriciaG wrote: ↑March 3rd, 2025, 10:54 am Others who don't read their text ahead of time must have done this at some point - read, realize you're putting the emphasis/pause in the wrong spot, try again . . . only to be wrong a second time.

https://librivox.org/uploads/bloopers/notreadingahead_tg_blooper.mp3

The worst one for me was when I read a good page or two of angry dialogue, an argument between two characters in which I had them shouting at each other for a few minutes.... And then the narrator has to chime in with something like, "They kept their voices low, for fear of attracting the attention of the neighbours."

Come on narrator, NOW you tell me! Sigh... Here we go again, but softer....

Post by **TriciaG** » March 12th, 2025, 7:46 am

OK, another from me.

The setup: old lady, come from the country, is being feted by her nephew. They're going to a theatre tonight, and she had lost her one bonnet on a car ride the day before, so she has nothing to wear on her head.

Let's just say, I lost my control on this one.

https://librivox.org/uploads/bloopers/theatrewear_blooper.mp3
0:52

Winnifred · Post by **Winnifred** » March 12th, 2025, 10:48 am

TriciaG wrote: ↑March 3rd, 2025, 10:54 am Others who don't read their text ahead of time must have done this at some point - read, realize you're putting the emphasis/pause in the wrong spot, try again . . . only to be wrong a second time.

https://librivox.org/uploads/bloopers/notreadingahead_tg_blooper.mp3

Sometimes that's when I discover there's a scanning/transcribing error in the text I'm using and there's no way to make it make sense without fixing the error....

Winnifred · Post by **Winnifred** » March 12th, 2025, 10:49 am

TriciaG wrote: ↑March 12th, 2025, 7:46 am OK, another from me.

The setup: old lady, come from the country, is being feted by her nephew. They're going to a theatre tonight, and she had lost her one bonnet on a car ride the day before, so she has nothing to wear on her head.

Let's just say, I lost my control on this one.

https://librivox.org/uploads/bloopers/theatrewear_blooper.mp3
0:52

Perfectly understandable. I'd have lost it too!