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Okay, but I’m reading naked.
Best of both worlds.
Sure, when they do it they’re “awesome” but when I do it suddenly I’m “tresspassing” and “not allowed to come back to the library”.
This is allowed. Not wanted, but allowed.
What book?
House of Leaves
Interesting choice of books to read out loud.
A dramatic retelling (and interpretive dance) of John Cage’s “4’33"”
Don’t fall for it ppl! This is just the AI wanting more samples to detect, know and reproduce our voices.
This is why I just burp into the phone until I know I’m talking to a real person.
Even picking up is a data point which will mean you’ll get more spam calls, unfortunately
But this is a good habit for when you’re expecting a call from a doctor’s office or something, I’ll be using it, many thanks!
Oof, that’s at least 1/4 of USA just OUT
Good. There’s too many of us.
You wish.
more than half of people living in the United States between the ages of 16 and 74 read below a sixth-grade level
You type in English because it’s the only language you know.
I type in English because it’s the only language you know.
我哋唔一樣 (We are not the same)
One thing I love doing is to learn to say “I don’t speak <language>” as well as possible in a language I don’t speak. If you’re good enough at it, people will assume it’s a joke and try to speak to you in that language you don’t actually know. Apparently I’m pretty good at saying it in Portuguese, but I wouldn’t know.
Most of what I got out of a Japanese class I took was how to say that I don’t understand Japanese.
Watashi wa nihonjo ga wakarimasen.
Excuse me I am more fluent in Gibberish than I am in English
Edit:too much Gibberish, not enough English
Wabby wabby wabba wabbo wabba wa ba bop?
I can’t interpret that without the manual and tonal markers
Because I’m a fairly basic Chinese (Mandarin) learner, this gave me a moment of feeling dumb before realising it’s Cantonese.
xD
Mandarin has too many speakers already, so I feel like using a more obscure language like Cantonese is more “brag-worthy” 😁
You don’t want to hear me read aloud, I deliberately add malapropisms because I find them funny, especially when I have to read the names of fantasy characters and places. I am not going to read your pronunciation guide in your half baked fantasy language! You’re not Tolkien! If it reads like Chicken, I’m saying Chicken.
Malapropisms - learned a new word today and it’s a fun one. I do the same thing in my head when I read, any name I don’t know how to pronounce becomes something I do know how to pronounce and stays that way for the rest of the story.
I always read emphasis as “em-FASS-is” just for fun.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle…
reading books to each other is an amazing pastime.
pastime
keep reading those books
i Swype type on my phone
i really hope I’m smarter irl
What’s really fun is when you’re parallel processing and what you’re thinking about typing and what you’re thinking about for fun switch every now and then, so you end up with a humanities thesis full of shark facts
The lengths people will go to to excuse a giraffe cunnilingis text they sent to not the zookeeper
so that’s why I keep seeing humans in shark essays?
My wife got cataract surgery years ago and they kind of botched it, so she could see for some time. She couldn’t watch videos/TV, browse the web, or anything like that, and it was pretty terrible for her. She asked me to read to her, so it became a daily thing. It was pretty neat, I have to admit, though it sure did make me hyper aware of my pronunciation and stuff.
Until its me where my fiancée always wants me to read to her while she falls asleep but I CANT RED OUTLOUD AND UNDERSTAND WHATS GOING ON AND SHE INTERRUPTS ME WOTH “HUH? WHOS THAT? WHY DID SHE DO THAT? WAS THIS WRITTEN BY A MAN??”
William Gaddis, The Recognitions, has been a trip so far
Although I recommend it, It is obvious it isn’t for everyone.
I’m sure your fiancée appreciated it.
Read? … what kind of pervert are you?
I’ve heard, and I don’t know if this is true, that voice actors who specialize in narrating books have to be superstars at this. Not only are they expected to be able to sight-read an entire book without making mistakes, they also need to do the required acting so exciting scenes are exciting, happy scenes are happy, gloomy scenes are gloomy, etc. Plus, as they come across new characters in the book, they’re supposed to be able to give them distinct voices and remember and recreate those voices as they show up later in the book.
Of course, a blockbuster book with a big budget for the audio version won’t have an actor wing it. They’ll be able to pay to have an actor and a director read the book first, and then have the director work with the actor to tease out the best possible performance. But, for a smaller budget, you have to deal with tighter margins so every second in the voice over booth counts.
My issues prevent me from being able to read allowed without sounding stupid. But otherwise I read a few books a week, so are we sure this is evidence?
I don’t believe you. Post a video.
Lol, pass
Here’s a very horny variant of this idea (no idea how it counts as SFW by Youtube standards)
You fuckin with the wrong people then. Find people with soul and their nudes will have soul.
Send me a picture of you wearing mom jeans.
this is bait
Political trolls
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