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Lizden · Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:21 pm Post subject: How do you say....

...the word "presentation"

I'm in the middle of a narration & realized that I had said it two different ways....and decided obviously to be consistent & say it the same way throughout...but I wondered which pronunciation you guys preferred?

PREE-sentation - like "Pre-" as opposed to "Ante-"
or
PREH-senatation - like "Present"

Just wondering!
Wink

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Philip Banks · Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:32 pm Post subject:

Don't split it, make it Prezzentayshun.

Lizden · Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:35 pm Post subject:

Oh...sorry....I don't split it, that was just to show the 2 options.

So you my dear, it seems to me yo are going with option 2? - which is the one I went with as well! Laugh

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bobsouer · Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:35 pm Post subject:

Liz,

Option 2.
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paddyo · CM Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 975 Location: New York City

The second one "like Present"
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Diane Havens · Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:43 pm Post subject:

I concur -- option 2.
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Lizden · Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:47 pm Post subject:

Cool...You guys rock!

Option 2 was my first instinct as well...but after you say the words 10 times each....you start to wonder! Shocked

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Eddie Eagle · M&M Joined: 23 Apr 2008 Posts: 2393

On networks it's #1 Tonight's Preesentation.

Moe Egan · Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 2:18 pm Post subject:

Which does the client prefer?

I always ask the client for words like data, route etc. Maybe I should add presentation to the list.
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Lizden · Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 2:22 pm Post subject:

This client doesn't care, as long as I'm consistent...but yeah I'm going to add it to my list as well... along woth "data" and some others! ...but hey, this is just talkin'! Wink

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Diane Maggipinto · Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 3:36 pm Post subject:

short 'e'

and i like short 'a' in data and root for route, if yer keepin' score Wink

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Both are acceptable. But I always learnt it (I had to do that) as option 2. Short e.

I've heard a lot of people use the long e...drives me madacasgar.

Mandy Nelson · Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 5:50 pm Post subject:

I'm with #2, too. It's right up there with data & details. I have to keep a list of which clients like it said which way so I don't bewitch myself.
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Deirdre · Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 6:34 pm Post subject:

My producer at WBZ makes me say de-TAILS which I hate. I'm a DEE-tail kinda gal.

I thought he was going to succumb to apoplexy when I emphasized the 2nd syllable in the word "exquisite".
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Lee Gordon · Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 12:42 am Post subject:

Defeat goes over defence before details.
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