One thing you don\u2019t think of first before you start an audio book is how different speech sounds from the way it\u2019s written. Take \u201cshe\u2019d tried harder\u201d from this week\u2019s episode. No problem, right? Except the \u2018d\u2019 at the end of she\u2019d rests right against the \u2018t\u2019 from tried. When spoken, it sounds exactly like \u201cshe tried harder\u201d. What happened to the \u2018d\u2019? Trying to pronounce both of them inserts a very conspicuous break between \u201cshe\u2019d\u201d and \u201ctried\u201d which not only sounds awkward, but is also not like anyone actually talks. I don\u2019t actually know what to do about this, but I have gotten into the habit of over-enunciating my words so I can be understood clearly.<\/p>\n
Relevant: this SMBC comic<\/a> about glottal stops in conversational American English. I don\u2019t think Batman is a great example, as it\u2019s easy and not uncommon to pronounce both the \u2018t\u2019 and the \u2018m\u2019, but it\u2019s an astute observation that applies often, and Batman makes for a better punchline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One thing you don\u2019t think of first before you start an audio book is how different speech sounds from the way it\u2019s written. Take \u201cshe\u2019d tried harder\u201d from this week\u2019s episode. No problem, right? Except the \u2018d\u2019 at the end of she\u2019d rests right against the \u2018t\u2019 from tried. When\u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacypod.hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacypod.hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacypod.hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacypod.hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacypod.hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/legacypod.hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/legacypod.hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacypod.hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacypod.hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacypod.hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}