I enjoyed the Gouty Merchant 
yes I think they are in the category of British humour that we others may not getWiltedScribe wrote: ↑April 9th, 2019, 5:06 pmI didn't realize the Thomas Hood poems were that depressing. I'm wondering if they're not in the wrong section of the book LOL.
a sort of nasty laugh about other people's misfortunes. I also don't find that funny, but it seems some people do. Maybe Craig can enlighten me there...
I believe that happens when we only ever see these words in print but never actually hear them spoken. And many people probably rarely have occasion to speak about such specific marine vocabulary, so that's why. I only checked it up because I remembered the special way that "boatswain" was pronounced /bozen/ in a previous poem. Also there I would have said "boat" and "swain" if I hadn't checked it. So I thought, here is another ship-swain, so maybe he is also pronounced differently
turns out I was right to check we're definitely a far way away from "The Higher Life" here. I actually found it quite difficult to do! While German and Dutch accents are somewhat similar, they're also different enough that I couldn't fall back on "what I sounded like 15 years ago"
Uploaded with corrections:Could you make 2 small corrections to these two please:
for Orator Puff (19):
> at 0:22: "the one squeaking thus and the other down so" - it's "squeaking" not "speaking". Also maybe to bring in some fun, I think it would be cool if you could really squeak the word "thus" and say with a very sombre tone the word "so". As they say later, he varies from a high B down to a G. We should really play on this in this poem.
for Ritter Hugo (42):
> at 0:35: "So sang dis wasser maiden, Vot hadn't got nodings on." - oops this should be the narrator, can be cut out, sorry. I need to remember recording that part (I already recorded the narrator for this poem, only need time to edit it all
yes it's probably not exactly the same, but compared to English, the Dutch and German have similar sounds. Just like the Luxembourgish and German have.
but I think I managed quite well in the end. Yours sounds good in any case. I think for an English-speaking listener, we will sound quite genuine Thanks !wow, you were really busy, Foon
great job on all of them, I found no error at all. 
All PL ok. I especially loved your vendor in the last one, excellent casual speech This story is so impossible ! I plodded through it as the narrator, half the time missing the action 
I especially loved the German mermaid. I knew you could do the accent (because you know Dutch) just as I try to do my worst with the German