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Slips of the tongue
Posted: March 31st, 2021, 12:28 am
by TheBanjo
As pretty much a newcomer to Librivox, I'm not sure if this has been raised here before, but I imagine over the years readers have caught themselves making some pretty funny slips of the tongue that (presumably for the public good) had to be edited out of their readings. Might be amusing to keep a collection of these as they arise.
Not exactly bring-the-house-down funny, perhaps, but I did just catch myself reading "Then she began to grow gay" as "Then she began to go gray"...
Re: Slips of the tongue
Posted: March 31st, 2021, 5:34 am
by TriciaG
Some of those are in the two
Bloopers threads. Many of the bloopers aren't misspeaks, but environmental interruptions - but there are some there!
Re: Slips of the tongue
Posted: March 31st, 2021, 5:38 am
by schrm
TheBanjo wrote: ↑March 31st, 2021, 12:28 am
As pretty much a newcomer to Librivox, I'm not sure if this has been raised here before, but I imagine over the years readers have caught themselves making some pretty funny slips of the tongue that (presumably for the public good) had to be edited out of their readings. Might be amusing to keep a collection of these as they arise.
Not exactly bring-the-house-down funny, perhaps, but I did just catch myself reading "Then she began to grow gay" as "Then she began to go gray"...
we had a podcast to this topic:
Culture, Bloopers and Prooflistening 107
https://ia800301.us.archive.org/17/items/librivox_community_2009/librivox_community_podcast_107.mp3
or indirectly: 148 A Salute to Proof-Listening
https://ia600702.us.archive.org/12/items/librivox_community_2013/librivox_community_podcast_148_128kb.mp3
general list of podcasts:
https://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/Librivox_Community_Podcast
and we have a forum thread for bloopers - which was deemed that important, that it has an own upload folder:
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=28787
(please note the first posting)
...which brings me to...
a wiki page, which has some obsolete links.
thank you, will try to post that in the correct section
edit: tricia was faster
Re: Slips of the tongue
Posted: April 25th, 2021, 6:38 am
by DavidYoung
If you have a series of words that start with the same letter, or have two consonants that swap in close succession, this happens a lot.
I imagine that if I were doing this using analogue technology, I would have used up a bottle or two of splicing cement.
Re: Slips of the tongue
Posted: April 25th, 2021, 7:24 am
by Peter Why
pheasant pluckers
Peter
Re: Slips of the tongue
Posted: April 25th, 2021, 9:23 am
by lurcherlover
I don't understand, can you spell it out ...?
Re: Slips of the tongue
Posted: April 25th, 2021, 11:43 am
by Peter Why
Old tongue twister: I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son and I'll go on plucking pheasants till the pheasant plucking's done.
Too easy to switch similar sounds and get an unintended meaning.
Peter
Re: Slips of the tongue
Posted: April 25th, 2021, 11:45 am
by Peter Why
Old tongue twister: I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son and I'll go on plucking pheasants till the pheasant plucking's done.
Too easy to switch similar sounds and get an unintended meaning. Designed to lubricate the tongue.
Peter
Re: Slips of the tongue
Posted: July 11th, 2021, 5:31 am
by rschmfem
Peter Why wrote: ↑April 25th, 2021, 11:43 am
... till the pheasant plucking's done.
... and get an unintended meaning.
Absolutely!
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Re: Slips of the tongue
Posted: October 17th, 2021, 1:12 pm
by czandra
I got one one day, reading "the foundational fact of art". It came out the foundational fart. I laughed so hard I left it in for the PL (with a note, of course), and she laughed too. Love bloopers. We could have an audio book full of them.
Cz
Re: Slips of the tongue
Posted: October 17th, 2021, 1:41 pm
by TheBanjo
czandra wrote: ↑October 17th, 2021, 1:12 pm
I got one one day, reading "the foundational fact of art". It came out the foundational fart. I laughed so hard I left it in for the PL (with a note, of course), and she laughed too. Love bloopers. We could have an audio book full of them.
Cz
James Joyce would have loved that one. Dean Swift, too.