Post by mysteriouswife on Mar 26, 2024 17:42:07 GMT -5
H had one job! I asked him to order pizza for delivery for DS and babysitter. He has me picking it up at 615. We have something to do at 7 that’s 45 min away. Now he’s asking me why we are paying to park two cars downtown. 🤦🏻♀️
I’ve been trying to listen to more audiobooks because I keep getting annoyed by podcasts and am listening to some “thriller” now. There is a long section where the main character has discovered text messages between two people plotting against her and the narration is
6th of August 10:10 am blah blah text
6th of August 10:11 am blah blah blah text
6th of August 10:14 am blah blah blah blah text
If I hear a date and time ever again it will be too soon.
I know they are supposed to read the actual text of the book but I think an exception can be made and they could say something like “the following texts were on the 6th of August between 10-11 am” and save us all from some misery. It’s been like 30 minutes of this!
Yes! Also mystery and thrillers now have a lot of podcasts or blogs. Either the character is working on one or following up on an old one etc. Then you have to have the transcript from the neighborhood social media group every so many chapters:
Tacokick: Did you hear about Suzzy?
Litskispeciality: No, what happened?
John Smith: Do you mean when Suzzy did X at the party?
And so on...
Jane Doe: Can't you all just mind your business?
Rinse and repeat
Yes! It is awful. And of course the whole reason we are listening is that we haven’t read the book before so you don’t know it’s happening until it’s too late and you’re already sucked in.
Can anyone actual read the phonics next to the word in the dictionary?
I’m late to this, but generally, yes!
I had to actually take a class on writing phonetically in undergrad. (Speech Pathology major.) We actually had spelling tests every week where she would say a word and we would have to spell it using the IPA. In theory, we were also supposed to learn how to note the speech production errors with little symbols to show how the error was produced if it wasn’t a straight substitution error…but we never actually did that.
My classmates and I thought we were SO COOL when we went on a department bar crawl wearing shirts with all of the bars’ names written phonetically. We also had shirts that we supposed to say something, but had an error on it, so it was close but not right. We, again, thought that we were so cool that only we would know there was an error. Nerds!
Post by basilosaurus on Mar 27, 2024 0:28:09 GMT -5
I recently read a book that was a fictional true crime podcast. There were chapters from the "real" characters interspersed with transcripts of the podcast investigating.
It must have been a prime free read. I certainly never would have paid, and I can't imagine a way it would show up on my library list. At least I could skim. Hearing would have been torture