[bksvol-discuss] Reading dialect
- From: "Julie Morales" <mercy421@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 21:02:28 -0500
Hi, Cindy. No, the speech tries to pronounce the dialect as it would
pronounce anything else. If you're used to that kind of thing, I don't guess
it would be that bad, but it drives me absolutely nutty! *smile* I've read
some books set in Scotland and other countries, and I really don't generally
mind reading a lot of dialect, because as you do, I subconsciously convert
them into what I'd consider normal speaking, and it runs pretty smoothly for
me, but of course, I can't do that with speech. If I'd had a Braille Note or
even a braille display to hook up to my laptop, I probably could have done
it with no problem. Take care.
Julie Morales
To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you need to be in their lives
today. -- Unknown
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 7:33 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Does anyone want...
Julie,
A lot of dialect intimidates me with sight. I scanned
and prevalidated some pages for Shelley when she was
doing Forrest Gump. I would never read that book and
did not volunteer to help with or validate the next
one she put up by the same author. That's one reason
I passed one of Catherine Cookson's books that had
been on the download list for a long time--there was
so much dialect in the first few pages, I rejected it
(it had already been released innumerable times).
Sometimes, if there's some dialect, as in the Dark is
Rising series, and I'm enjoying the book generally, I
just read it to myself as if the words are normal and
not dialect. Unfortunately, you don't have that option
with speech, or do you? Can you set the speech for
straight English reading regardless of dialect or
accents?
Cindy
--- Julie Morales <mercy421@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi, Liz. The book came from Lissi, and when she got
> back to her mail, she
> said she'd take it, so she has it. One of us will
> post here when it's on the
> site so you can download it if you want to read it.
> It's pretty good. All
> that dialect just intimidates me with speech!
> *smile* I can't wait to read
> it on my Braille Lite, where it's much easier for me
> to deal with that kind
> of thing. Take care.
> Julie Morales
> To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you need
> to be in their lives
> today. -- Unknown
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Liz Bottner" <liziswhatis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 8:44 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Does anyone want...
>
>
> Hey Julie:
>
> If you haven't finished editing A Celtic Christmas
> and want someone to
> finish it up, I'd be happy to. I'm sorry this is so
> late, I'm just now
> reading through all of my mail. If it's done,
> though, I'd be interested to
> know that, too.
>
> Thanks, and take care,
>
> Liz
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