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Jeffrey Kafer · Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 3:53 pm Post subject: Flubbed line in an audiobook

so I'm driving to work today (this VO stuff is my second job next to working in video games) and listening to the audiobook version of Blood Diamonds. I hear the narrator (whose name escapes me) say:

"They slaughtered a goat to add to their rations". He pronounced the last word as "Ray-tions" and then a second later:

"They slaughtered a goat to add to their rations" with the last words said perfectly. So he flubbed the line, re-read it of course, but they forgot to edit it out!

For reasons I can't figure out, I found this to be a super-cool little find/bug in a published audiobook.
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Deirdre · Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 4:10 pm Post subject:

I've not heard a re-take left in, but I have head multiple pronunciations of odd given names!

What drives me nuts is incorrectly pronounced place names, especially when the narrator is supposed to be a local.

I love Joe Montegna to bits (he reads the Spenser detective stories), but someone needs to tell him about bizzarro and not-so-bizzarro Massachusetts place names.

By the way, Jeff, are you a beta-tester?
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Jeffrey Kafer · Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 4:23 pm Post subject:

Yoda117 · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:35 am Post subject: Re: Flubbed line in an audiobook

Don G. · King's Row Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Posts: 1071 Location: MA

I've started to get into audiobooks again recently (as a consumer, no VO), and I remember recently hearing Ed McMahon read his book on Johnny Carson. I thought I was imagining it and had to replay the section, but there was a missed edit in there, as well. It was just a false start, but as someone who used to produce and edit for a living, I must admit it put a grin on my face to hear that.

And DB, I was just listening to Montegna reading a Spenser novel the other day and heard him pronounce the Zakim bridge as Zah-kim rather than Zay-kim. I'm sure that's a name dear to your heart in your past life as a traffic reporter. Smile

Deirdre · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:03 am Post subject:

"Copley Square" is the one that rankles the most.

it's COP like TRAFFIC COP.
...not COPE.

I love Joe, but with a place like Massachusetts, a bit of research is necessary.

I wouldn't try to pronounce Louisianna place names without calling a nearby Chamber of Commerce.

. . .and by the way, my Traffic Life is my Current Life. Still at it, coming up on 10 years in March.
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Audiogal · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 4:47 pm Post subject:

Don Hammock · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:23 pm Post subject:

Hey Mary,

Would that be " Nacogdoches,Tx" ( where I have family at ), or " Nacateches,La ? Either way- Le Bon Ton Roule Sha !!!!!

Holler at you later,

Don

Audiogal · Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:57 pm Post subject:

I apologize for the threadjack. Embarrassed

Natchitoches, LA, home of "Steel Magnolias."
(NACK-uh-dish, loo-WEEZY-anna) is how I say it when I'm working. The rest of the time, it's LOO-zee-anna 'round these parts.
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