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SerSpook posted:and now we discuss how to sheathe the sword son, sheathing your sword is completely natural. there's just a time and a place As I've said I love the audiobooks, but the way Kate Reading pronounces "patina" bothers the hell out of me. Also once she says "secreted" in the way that does not mean "hid"
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Dec 8, 2019 01:54
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There are definitely some weird and inconsistent pronunciations during the audiobooks. I would love if they'd go back and fix some of it. But they probably never will re-record the books because of the length and expense.
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Dec 8, 2019 04:33
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Moghedien is like the biggest example, I think they use 3 different pronunciations and often within the same book. One thing I've noticed now that I'm into book 10 is that the accents of the various nations have developed heavily vs what they were in the first few volumes in the audiobooks. In the first handful, there's some speech pattern differences but the general accents are the same, and now it's like... Illianers are Scottish, and it's kind of weird. Taraboners have a weird accent like they're ESL students almost? The Seanchan slur is consistent, at least. Still very much love (and prefer?) the audiobooks though.
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Dec 8, 2019 04:48
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Ok I just got up to Mat's letter and it was good Where is the best place to find the audiobooks?
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Dec 8, 2019 05:03
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The best use of audiobooks ever was Tamora Pierce's work. She had them done with a full cast of voice actors, like a radio play or something. More people should do that.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Ok I just got up to Mat's letter and it was good Audible has them, but they're very expensive if you aren't using the subscription credits.
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Pleads posted:Moghedien is like the biggest example, I think they use 3 different pronunciations and often within the same book. My favorite one is how wildly different Aludra's accent is in TGH compared literally every single book afterwards.
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Pleads posted:Moghedien is like the biggest example, I think they use 3 different pronunciations and often within the same book. Nah the illian accent is pirates.
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Dec 8, 2019 13:17
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Kate's pronunciation of Mesaana really bugs. I've listened to at least some of the books a few times and I never get used to it.
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The Lord Bude posted:The best use of audiobooks ever was Tamora Pierce's work. She had them done with a full cast of voice actors, like a radio play or something. More people should do that. The Deathlands series does this as well. Graphic Audio made them.
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rafikki posted:Kate's pronunciation of Mesaana really bugs. I've listened to at least some of the books a few times and I never get used to it. I can't conjure it in my head. What's the issue?
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silvergoose posted:I can't conjure it in my head. What's the issue? I know it's spelled with two As in a row, but the way Kate draws it out grates on me for some reason. Mesaaaaana
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Dec 8, 2019 20:20
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silvergoose posted:I can't conjure it in my head. What's the issue? She enunciates both a's individually, and drawls the last one. It's something like Mess-ah-awna. It sounds like it should have an apostrophe in there somewhere.
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Dec 8, 2019 20:29
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What's wrong with that Basically the Japanese double vowel
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Dec 8, 2019 20:31
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The glossary has it as meh-SAH-nah.
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Artonos posted:There are definitely some weird and inconsistent pronunciations during the audiobooks. I would love if they'd go back and fix some of it. But they probably never will re-record the books because of the length and expense. Moiraine/Moirenne, I remember in book 10 somewhere I think the normal Padan Fain-Fahn in the same sentence. what a hell of a gig though. "Sal-dayyyyyyyyah" It'd be cool if there was some sort of voice over featuring MKKR on the show, if it's not Loial. As far as Seanchan I for sure want them to sound like Deep Texans on the show, but I imagine when they went to try it for the audiobooks they couldn't stop laughing. I've tried it out loud in the car and it's real hard not to put the Music Of Dixie in that accent Brolander fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Dec 9, 2019 |
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Dec 9, 2019 00:17
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I demand the Texan accent because I am so loving sick of fantasy shows making everyone British.
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Atlas Hugged posted:I demand the Texan accent because I am so loving sick of fantasy shows making everyone British. 
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Holy gently caress I forgot this in Towers of Midnight Elayne, after getting thousands killed or injured trying to take on the Black, does it AGAIN and gets hosed up again. Now I understand the hate for her.
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Dec 9, 2019 01:03
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Yep. She makes such, such bad decisions, constantly.
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It's been long enough since I read it that I'd forgotten all about it, so I was kinda going well she is tough, competent, and dedicated, I don't see the problem. Then she goes back to Caemlyn and loses her mind. Huh. After she gets pregnant. I wonder if RJ was doing a 'pregnant bitches be whack, yo' thing?
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Nah, she was meant as a "stuck up princess never sees consequences, keeps being stuck up, keeps never seeing consequences".
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From memory she literally thought she had a hero shield because she had a prophecy that said that her kids would be born healthy and happy, took that to mean "nothing bad can happen to me while I'm pregnant" and completely forgot that the kids didn't need her to be healthy and happy to be born
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And that was even after she was warned multiple times of the giant hole in her logic and she went ahead and did it anyway. Next time I reread, I'm going to try to keep a running count how many Andorans would still be alive if Elayne had supported Dyelin instead of vice-versa.
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From what I recall her action that got thousands of people killed there was not actually dumb though? Unlike some of other other actions she definitely performed. She did not just charge in by herself as soon as she had confirmation of where the black were, instead she spied on them, determined which of her supposed allies were suspects, then moved in to attack with a three Aes Sedai linked group for each known enemy, something that also trapped the suspected traitors from acting whilst using their strength. The plan hosed up anyway but it was pretty solid in itself. Idiocy would have been her going all 'rar, I have an Angreal and am strong, I can take two chumps!' and going in by herself. But that would actually have worked out better given it would not have lead to her entire group of Aes Sedai getting murked. Edit: To be fair there was the same idiocy that afflicted everyone in the later books. You can travel! In this situation, just phone home to Egwene and get like 40 sisters to go on a day excursion to help crushinate the enemy. Patrat fucked around with this message at 11:21 on Dec 9, 2019 |
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You have access to the world of dreams and traveling, and yet somehow you aren't just opening gates in bad people's heads. A problem with WoT if you think too hard about it.
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Anias posted:You have access to the world of dreams and traveling, and yet somehow you aren't just opening gates in bad people's heads. Once Sanderson takes over, he starts breaking the magic system
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Patrat posted:From what I recall her action that got thousands of people killed there was not actually dumb though? Unlike some of other other actions she definitely performed. "GEE IT SURE IS A SHAME THERE ARE ONLY TWO OF US IN THIS HOUSE" I say, standing at a door in the hopes no one will overhear
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RC Cola posted:Once Sanderson takes over, he starts breaking the magic system Was it Sanderson who did the hey check it out we have google maps now bit?
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Yes And the volcano thingy.
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Torrannor posted:Yes I liked the gate cannons Simple, yet effective!
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Honestly I thought they worked well within the theme of "these damned SAVAGES keep doing impossible things"
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Yeah opening the volcano gate was cool as hell tbh
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Libluini posted:I liked the gate cannons Those were good. I got really annoyed at the whole “super noble only good at making gates ashaman “ because if you’ve ever read any of his other books that is pure Sanderson and sticks out like a sore thumb on rereads.
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I think even in the Jordan books Flinn wasn't even strong enough to make a gate but was incredibly good at it, so much that his were bigger than everyone else's. Iirc
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Just look at this gates’ girth Rand.
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How many of them are gay, given the uh pillow friends in the white tower
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