[Complete] Coffee Break Collection #34 -- VACATIONS by Various Authors - lt

[lightcrystal]

A Holiday In Bed is PL OK. Thanks, lightcrystal. You are right, it is popular but nothing recent, and you really brought out the humor. I'll have to look up more Barrie writings besides Peter Pan.

How would you like to proof listen my Robert Burns's Grave (see above). Right there in good ole Scotland!

I've had a listen a few times while following the text. Some pick ups:

[a] 34 seconds in. "Diary Entry" and "1803" . Maybe I am pedantic. But shouldn't they both be removed if not in the text?

36 seconds in. "We went to the Churchyard" should remove the "we".

[c] 1:16 " a monument" should be " monument".

[d] 3:27 "and on one side" should be "on one side"

[e] 4:20 "up in wealth" should be "up to wealth"

[f] 9:32 "maybe from his own door" should be "perhaps from his own door"

Note: your intent with archaic words or maybe they are Scottish words that don't exist in English seems to be to say them as a current English word. For instead you say "bye" as "bad" at 52 seconds. Later on you say shew as show. Both make sense in the context. So I am going to leave those and NOT mark them as pick ups. As Algy Pug has commented, a reader's broad intent should be respected; it's not for a PLer or listener to impose their intent upon the recorder. In my last reading I said Perthshire as I am used to saying it as in Yorkshire. A Scottish person would say it in a different way.

I assume that's all I do for now? I don't do anything with The Magic Window?

I have already gained a reputation as a very demanding proof listener?

p.s no idea why I am getting bold text. I know. My second entry has been taken as meaning bold. Stupid technology.

[msfry]

Thanks, lightcrystal, for explaining the bold text. It was quite startling. Yes, your problem came in when listing a b c points in brackets. The bracketed b is the command for bold. In future, use a. b. c., or maybe you can figure out how to make a numbered list (which I still haven't been able to do.)

I also have a reputation for being an exacting proof listener, but my criteria is whether the error "significantly alters the meaning or quality of the writing". I noticed the points you mentioned when proofing my piece and didn't think them worth changing. Bear in mind that, editing being a skill, sometimes an edit sounds far worse than the error. Also, the time spent citing/correcting insignificant errors is time robbed from PLing/recording another story. Also, OCR software occasionally screws up text in Gutenberg projects (due maybe to a smudged word), so the bye could be bad, and bad made a lot more sense. In any case, a listener without benefit of text, will not hear anything amiss. Pronunciation, ah, there's another issue best handled with kid gloves. For instance, in English, the word "read", can be present or past tense, and sound different (red, reed). To cite or not to cite, that is the question? If a native english speaker says it wrong, definitely I would. A foreign speaker, probably not unless they ask for their English to be corrected.

As to "Diary Entry" and "1803", they are taken from the book's preface to give necessary context to a chapter lifted from a book. Nothing extraneous was added.

The only people who have access to the MW are the BC, DPL and MC.

So, bottom line is, I've left it as it is and marked it PL OK. Thanks for your heroic efforts! BTW, did you like the story?

[Winnifred]

Here's a (hopefully entertaining) piece by Mark Twain, called "A Curious Pleasure Excursion":
https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cbc34_curiouspleasureexcursion_wa_128kb.mp3 (11:14)

It's from Sketches New and Old by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1835-1910

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3189/3189-h/3189-h.htm#excursion

Cheers,

[msfry]

Here's a (hopefully entertaining) piece by Mark Twain, called "A Curious Pleasure Excursion":
https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cbc34_curiouspleasureexcursion_wa_128kb.mp3 (11:14)

It's from Sketches New and Old by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1835-1910

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3189/3189-h/3189-h.htm#excursion

Cheers,

Yeah! A new entry. It's been awhile. I look forward to listening later today.

[msfry]

PL Notes for A Curious Pleasure Excursion

I have never heard this story! It's so cute and you did a great job reading it. Just one note:

1:59 20th inst, should be read 20th instant, or 20th "of this month", as you would say etcetera when reading etc.

Also, you might want to add the *footnote* after reading the title, which seems like an interesting factoid to know. Just say "footnote" then "end of footnote", and notate the new file length.

[Winnifred]

PL Notes for A Curious Pleasure Excursion

I have never heard this story! It's so cute and you did a great job reading it. Just one note:

1:59 20th inst, should be read 20th instant, or 20th "of this month", as you would say etcetera when reading etc.

Also, you might want to add the *footnote* after reading the title, which seems like an interesting factoid to know. Just say "footnote" then "end of footnote", and notate the new file length.

Thanks! Both changes now made, and the file is at https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cbc34_curiouspleasureexcursion_wa_128kb.mp3 (now 11:22).

Cheers,

[msfry]

PL Notes for A Curious Pleasure Excursion

I have never heard this story! It's so cute and you did a great job reading it. Just one note:

1:59 20th inst, should be read 20th instant, or 20th "of this month", as you would say etcetera when reading etc.

Also, you might want to add the *footnote* after reading the title, which seems like an interesting factoid to know. Just say "footnote" then "end of footnote", and notate the new file length.

Thanks! Both changes now made, and the file is at https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cbc34_curiouspleasureexcursion_wa_128kb.mp3 (now 11:22).

Cheers,

Oops, you forgot to put "end of footnote" where it goes, so the whole first paragraph at least seems like part of the footnote.

[Winnifred]

Oops, you forgot to put "end of footnote" where it goes, so the whole first paragraph at least seems like part of the footnote.

Whoops, indeed. Sorry about that. I ended up re-recording the whole footnote to make it sound smoother. Now up (with both "Footnote" and "End footnote") at https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cbc34_curiouspleasureexcursion_wa_128kb.mp3 (still 11:22).

Cheers,

[msfry]

Oops, you forgot to put "end of footnote" where it goes, so the whole first paragraph at least seems like part of the footnote.

Whoops, indeed. Sorry about that. I ended up re-recording the whole footnote to make it sound smoother. Now up (with both "Footnote" and "End footnote") at https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cbc34_curiouspleasureexcursion_wa_128kb.mp3 (still 11:22).

Cheers,

Perfect! PL OK.

[BettyB]

A Sunday Afternoon in the Rockies

https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cbc34_sundayafternoonrockies_bbs_128kb.mp3

Vacation Journeys East and West Published in 1918
David McConnell Steele (1873-1945)

http://archive.org/details/vacationjourneys00stee/page/n278/mode/2up

BettyB

[msfry]

Thank you Betty, for your contribution. The author is new to the LV catalog, so that's good! I may look for a story to read from this book myself, and hope you'll read another one too (this project needs more input).

As to your story, I have 2 PL Notes:

7:40 and to draw in new ali-ment, you say ail-ment.
8:32 it was not regu-larity of respiration, you say regu-larly ug

[BettyB]

https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cbc34_sundayafternoonrockies_bbs_128kb.mp3

Upload for spot check.

Betty

[msfry]

Spot check PL OK.

[yannaaragon]

Hello!

My contribution to the collection below:

Title: Excerpt from 'The Mirror of the Sea'
Author: Joseph Conrad (03 December 1857 - 03 August 1924)
Link to Text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1058/pg1058-images.html
File Link and Duration (mm:ss): https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cbc34_mirror_maa_128kb.mp3 (13:50)

[msfry]

Thank you, Maria!