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Best of both worlds.
Sure, when they do it they're "awesome" but when I do it suddenly I'm "tresspassing" and "not allowed to come back to the library".
What book?
House of Leaves
Interesting choice of books to read out loud.
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I’m diagnosed dyslexic which, when reading aloud, sends me into a stutter to full embarrassed apologies. When reading to myself, I’ll make it 10 pages before I realize I didn’t read shit. I’m never getting laid in your hypothetical world.
Who am I kidding? I’m not getting laid as is.
Man idk
I got a date secured and it dawned on me that I am NOT ready to have a date over. Like you ever realize how many things you gotta take care of that you stopped paying attention to?
Like fine, clear your counters, sweep the floor, clean the bathroom, replace the burnt out light bulb, clean sheets on bed, on box spring, on bedframe, shampoo carpets, dust shelves, put away clean clothes, wash dirty clothes, check your fingernails, check your ear and nose hair, your regular hair, make sure they don't have allergies, etc, etc.
Im ok with not getting laid I don't have the energy to go to work, do all that shit, panic for a week about the date, have fun at the date, play the social awkward dance of "more, not more" and potentially end up having her see that I'm an absolute disaster?
Nah I'm good.
Yeah, I have SO many rescue animals, it’s hard to explain to normal people. Multiple dogs with all sorts of problems, a few parrots, an angry hedgehog, two cats, and my vet’s first call to foster (almost anything). They are all well taken care of and clean but there’s a… smell.
I’m also holding Balthazar, a bark scorpion, against his will for invading Pretty Kitty Pepper’s land. Balthazar is kept well and fed a steady diet of pinheads. When he eats, it looks like a dot matrix printer in reverse. That’s the one creature in the house most people freak out about the most, but they would all be wise to fear the parrots.
Pretty Kitty Pepper for reference
Hmmm. I have a cat and an 8yo ADHD boy.
There's a smell, and stuff everywhere. So yeah, you get it. I don't live in a barn, but it sure does feel like it some days.
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Yeah routine self-management/self-care is something many people are looking for in a partner. At a minimum. Good on you for knowing. I actually live alone now, and I find those things are much easier to take care of without someone else’s clutter adding to the cacophony. Also, where things used to pile up I use baskets.
I need more baskets
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Show me the progress of your most recently opened audiobook.
You type in English because it's the only language you know.
I type in English because it's the only language you know.
我哋唔一樣 (We are not the same)
Because I'm a fairly basic Chinese (Mandarin) learner, this gave me a moment of feeling dumb before realising it's Cantonese.
xD
Mandarin has too many speakers already, so I feel like using a more obscure language like Cantonese is more "brag-worthy" 😁
One thing I love doing is to learn to say "I don't speak " as well as possible in a language I don't speak. If you're good enough at it, people will assume it's a joke and try to speak to you in that language you don't actually know. Apparently I'm pretty good at saying it in Portuguese, but I wouldn't know.
Most of what I got out of a Japanese class I took was how to say that I don't understand Japanese.
Watashi wa nihonjo ga wakarimasen.
The use of watashi wa would give it away. Japanese people basically never say I at all
I don't know much Japanese, but the bits I do know suggest it's a very different language than English. Not just different sounds, but also just a different approach to expressing things. Like, I think instead of saying "I'm hungry", they just say "hungry!" Presumably though, they do use "I" when it's needed for disambiguation.
For, example, if you're with a friend and someone asks "are you guys college students?" The response would probably be something like "He is but I'm not", right?
I don’t know much Japanese, but the bits I do know suggest it’s a very different language than English. Not just different sounds
As a Cantonese and Mandarin speaker, sometime I can pick out Japanese words because these languages all have the same roots, so I guess some words decended from a common word in the past, but now sounds different because of geography and separation.
I remember when I watched Steins;Gate and when the word [第三次世界大戰/Dai san ji se kai tai sen/World War 3] (Cantonese would be like: Dai Saam Ci Sai Gaai Dai Zin) was uttered, I was like: Holy shit, why is it so similar to Cantonese. Like the impact of the line being devlivered actually felt more intense, I felt the emotions of the soon to be billions of fictional deaths was being described
Also: [電話/Denwa/Telephone] sounds very close to Mandarin's Dian Hua
Presumably though, they do use "I" when it's needed for disambiguation.
Not as much as you might hope but yeah
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Please don't, I've read so many words that I've never said aloud and am 100% saying them wrong
I made the mistake of pronouncing the "s" in "debris" once, and a pedantic acquaintance pretended to not know the word over and over as I repeated it, until I finally realized the mistake. If he'd simply corrected me, I would have laughed at myself and appreciated him. But he had to be a smug prick about it, and now I permanently resent him.
Sorry for the mini trauma dump. Just agreeing with your sentiment.
Yikes fuck that person for doing that.
I had a coworker who would frequently say "Not to be pendantic..." and I honestly could not tell if he was just fucking with me.
I've started pronouncing debris like the British do and now I just do it all the time as I read.
I also say "sooorry" instead of "sorry" because I jokes around one too many times on a trip to Montana.
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Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.
I learned English reading so many books that I just pronounced how it's spelled in my head. Combine that with general non-social tendencies I didn't really heard or had to say a lot of those words.
I had to spell out words to people because of that. Then I came to US, and now I can't even spell the words because the alphabets are pronounced differently lol.
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Don't fall for it ppl! This is just the AI wanting more samples to detect, know and reproduce our voices.
This is why I just burp into the phone until I know I'm talking to a real person.
Even picking up is a data point which will mean you'll get more spam calls, unfortunately
But this is a good habit for when you're expecting a call from a doctor's office or something, I'll be using it, many thanks!
I've heard, and I don't know if this is true, that voice actors who specialize in narrating books have to be superstars at this. Not only are they expected to be able to sight-read an entire book without making mistakes, they also need to do the required acting so exciting scenes are exciting, happy scenes are happy, gloomy scenes are gloomy, etc. Plus, as they come across new characters in the book, they're supposed to be able to give them distinct voices and remember and recreate those voices as they show up later in the book.
Of course, a blockbuster book with a big budget for the audio version won't have an actor wing it. They'll be able to pay to have an actor and a director read the book first, and then have the director work with the actor to tease out the best possible performance. But, for a smaller budget, you have to deal with tighter margins so every second in the voice over booth counts.
without making mistakes
This part is not true at all. I know a guy who edits these, and from what I hear, re-reads are very much a thing.
Yeah, well it's hard to do it without any errors, but it's an error every 5 minutes or something, whereas a perfectly competent normal person when sight-reading text will probably make an error every 30s.
You don't want to hear me read aloud, I deliberately add malapropisms because I find them funny, especially when I have to read the names of fantasy characters and places. I am not going to read your pronunciation guide in your half baked fantasy language! You're not Tolkien! If it reads like Chicken, I'm saying Chicken.
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Oof, that's at least 1/4 of USA just OUT
Good. There's too many of us.
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle...
You fuckin with the wrong people then. Find people with soul and their nudes will have soul.
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