Um… no. That’s about the worst interpretation of my question that I can think of.
Correction: There’s no way I would have thought of that.
Um… no. That’s about the worst interpretation of my question that I can think of.
Correction: There’s no way I would have thought of that.
Your question isn’t terribly clear.
Maybe not. Everyone else seems to be getting it, though. Let’s try this:
If you’re reading written text out loud, and that text contains one or more words in parentheses, how do you say those words?
Doing the “air quotes” thing with your voice would make it sound sarcastic, as though you’re mocking the idea that this pathetic string of words is a proper sentence. The best option, I think, is just a slight pause before and after the word.
I replace it with a little stop - no consonant.
I live in FL now but I’m an East TN country person. We almost always voice a d instead of a t. The reaction to anybody who did succinctly pronounce a t (in the middle of a word) would be, “You’re not from around here…are you?”
Missed the Edit window. It’s one of the give-aways. Like Hollywood’s insistence on “thin’.” We don’t end a word on “thin.” Takes too much effort. It’s “thun’.” (“Nuthun’” for nothing. “Sumthun’” (or summ-[stop]-un) for something.) Not hard. Falls off the tongue, from the back of the throat.
Probably more than you wanted to hear about it.
I miss our sound. Like I’ve said in other threads, we have to drive into Alabama to hear people who talk right.
That was how I interpreted it (albeit with insight from posts 2 to 14). I pronounce “(” as “That is…”, or similar.
I paused and flattened my pitch.
Me too. I’m a hand-talker.