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Pleiades357
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Post by Pleiades357 »

Funny!
it is interesting how often things slip by the "professional" (sold in stores) recordings, last year friend lent me Lord of the Rings (couple times, marvelous reader has wrong voice for character) and Harry Potter series, Jim Dale (magnificent), also has a few errors.
Most often it is mistaking the emotion of a line and trying to make up for it... "Harry (said quietly) SHE SHREIKED"... too late...
left me wondering if the books were written up in a script, how readers kept track of accents, voices
or if they actually read from the book with prescient skill
Wonderfull to actually meet people who are doing this ;-)
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Don't you love when you substitute a different word for what is written?

This clip is about the wearing of swords at Bath, which Nash prohibited due to them tearing women's dresses and frightening the women "by appearing on trifling occasions." What did Nash do, therefore, when he heard of a proposed duel? Listen...

https://librivox.org/uploads/bloopers/swords_blooper.mp3
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We had a little window-rattling earthquake this morning while I was recording my chapter about Bach:
https://librivox.org/uploads/bloopers/earthquake_blooper_ks.mp3
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Funny, Kara - you're so calm about it. I can tell you live in an earthquake zone! :lol:
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Heheh yeah, we've had quite a few tiny ones lately :) Usually it's a quick boom, the windows rattle, and that's it. They're only scary when they keep on shaking!
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Post by Pleiades357 »

Earthquake... I was in Irvine for the shaker last Easter.... that one rattled me and you are even closer, yikes. We were getting our shoes on expecting to need to get out...
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Okay. Call me a pathetic loser if you must. But, if you recall my tendency to giggle fits, you have to admit I showed a great deal of restraint, even though the unfortunate way Dickens refers to young Charley here did give me pause.

https://librivox.org/uploads/bloopers/Charley_blooper.mp3
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I had no idea Dickens could be so cruel! :shock: :lol:
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Oh that is horrid. I'm sure Dickens knew it would be read aloud and this sort of thing would happen. lol. :mrgreen:

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I'll bet he laughed himself silly when he wrote that. :lol:
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Starlite wrote:Oh that is horrid. I'm sure Dickens knew it would be read aloud and this sort of thing would happen.
Dickens used to read his own stuff to audiences, but I bet he never selected that passage. (Actually, this same combination had slipped right past me a couple sentences earlier in the text. I think it just took a few seconds for my brain to register the sound as opposed to the written word.)

I'm never entirely sure whether Dickens is having a chuckle or it's just the change in language over time (or if I just need to wash my mind with soap.) Here is a passage from Martin Chuzzlewit that had me going a couple years ago:
She touched his organ, and from that bright epoch even it, the old companion of his happiest hours, incapable as he had thought of elevation, began a new and deified existence.
Is it just me or does it sound like Tom is enjoying more than just music?
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Ha ha That's great! :clap:
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ROFLMAO!!!
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
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So it's not just me. WHEW!
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