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Okay. I'm writing a fic. *boggles the mind, i know* And in it, i need someone to read aloud. The reader, however, is dyslexic.
Now, i know that that is a touchy subject. And because it is, i want it to be right. I want the two or three sentences to sound like they actually would, and not like they would with me, the non-dyslexic person, making it up. I don't like the thought, and i think it would be insulting.
I really hope that someone out there can help me with this. I really hope this isn't an offensive request.
Look behind the cut for the actual passage.
Thanks, anybody and everybody.
Chorus: Why do you cry out thus, unless at some vision of horror?
Cassandra: The house reeks of death and dripping blood.
Chorus: How so? 'Tis but the odor of the altar sacrifice.
Cassandra: The stench is like a breath from the tomb.
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
The primroses were over. Toward the edge of the wood, where the ground became open and sloped down to an old fence and a brambly ditch beyond, only a few fading patches of pale yellow still showed among the dog's mercury and oak-tree roots. On the other side of the fence, the upper part of the field was full of rabbit holes.
The person reading is angry, nervous, and afraid - does NOT want to read and is being yelled at. If that makes a difference.
Now, i know that that is a touchy subject. And because it is, i want it to be right. I want the two or three sentences to sound like they actually would, and not like they would with me, the non-dyslexic person, making it up. I don't like the thought, and i think it would be insulting.
I really hope that someone out there can help me with this. I really hope this isn't an offensive request.
Look behind the cut for the actual passage.
Thanks, anybody and everybody.
Chorus: Why do you cry out thus, unless at some vision of horror?
Cassandra: The house reeks of death and dripping blood.
Chorus: How so? 'Tis but the odor of the altar sacrifice.
Cassandra: The stench is like a breath from the tomb.
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
The primroses were over. Toward the edge of the wood, where the ground became open and sloped down to an old fence and a brambly ditch beyond, only a few fading patches of pale yellow still showed among the dog's mercury and oak-tree roots. On the other side of the fence, the upper part of the field was full of rabbit holes.
The person reading is angry, nervous, and afraid - does NOT want to read and is being yelled at. If that makes a difference.
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esk(e)lus- with the (e) being an unempasized short e. But it would be skipped, or guessed, probably starting with a long A or long E.
This would be a VERY frustrating passage to read aloud, because the hard stuff is all first, and by the time someone got to the easy, familiar words they'd be tied up in knots from the Greek drama.
Julia, it's the kind of thing that some people would be pushed to the point of acting out in anger
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And.
Ummm.
Dude. I seriously flunked all that 'English' stuff. What does a long a or e sound like? Ask? Eesk?
*grumble*
*don't even ASK me to diagram a sentence*
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It's all so POINTLESS!!!
I know how to write a correct sentence! I know what form of a word to use, what tense!
I just can't tell you WHY.
And diagraming?
Evol.
Freakishly Tickled
I only know one other person who feels the way I do, the rest of the world seems to agree with you. Ah well.
BTW, does anyone else think this "Drabble Generator" everyone is playing with is just a digital version of "Mad Libs"? Or am I just waaaaaaaaaay scary older than I like to think about....?
Re: Freakishly Tickled
What?
I avoid 'Mad Libs' and whatnot.
*we are not amused*
Prolly they know, but just don't care.
Or maybe, don't know and still don't care.
Dude - i can't DIAGRAM a SENTENCE.
What do *i* know?
Re: Freakishly Tickled
Didn't make reading aloud any easier for me, was more like doing pencil mazes, which I also love.
Julia, weird hobbies, what can I say?
Re: Freakishly Tickled
Freaks.
IPA? Never heard of it.
But then...i DO avoid the dictionary because....on my way to looking up something i'll get sidetracked and a half hour later i'm six letters off my target going 'what the hell was i doing?'
Hehe.
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Dictionaries are tools of the devil, which is why I have nine assorted dictionaries, a Physician's Desk Reference, a 1957 set of Encyclopedia Brittanica and various field guides and anatomy books withiin easy reach (to the right; gardening references to the left). And I still sat here for fifteen minutes the other day trying to remember any word at all to express a concept...
Julia, when one is prone to aphasia, a large vocabulary is a crutch
Re: Freakishly Tickled
Hrmmmmmm.
Dictionaries ARE tools of the devil. But, you know...
*hides horns*
I love my atlases and my references and my...STUFF. I could sit and look through them all day, which is BAD. Very bad.
Aphasia. Had to look it up, of course, and the first bit sounds just like me - as does what you said. "Monstrous, will you hand me the...the..." *deep sigh* "That thing, there, the..." *Monstrous starts guessing words* "No, no, i need the...for the thing, the...SAUCEPAN! No, that's not right."
God, i do that ALL THE TIME. Hate that. Sit here and ask Cat 'What's that word that means you've started somethng over but no a new thing, the same thing only..." blah blah and then twenty minutes later it'll come to me. Grrrrrrrr.
I don't think i have any brain lesions though.
*who knows*
*pets you*
Re: Freakishly Tickled
Not being able to formulate the word "exploit" when I was a student at Evergreen was inconvenient, too.
It's either the repeated high fevers or the several major head injuries, probably both. Neither of my kids have the problem, luckily.
Julia, wondering what a clone without my history of head trauma would be like
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Well, you know, William Shatner.
Not exactly a loss.
*hee*
Hrmmmmm...clones...interesting. I wonder...
*wanders off*
You should read C.J. Cherryh's 'Cyteen' trilogy. Cloning, mental 'structuring' and...all sorts of skeery, freaky, shivery stuff. She's such an excellent writer and her take on all that just...
Well, something for you to read, or not, for yourself.
:)
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Aeschylus: E as in end, SK (e) like the second e in even, lus like lust :-)
Agamemnon is pronounced like it's spelled, but a dyslectic person would get wigged by the multiple m and n sounds.
I basically flunked every class in 10th and 11th grade but then got somewhat pulled out of the depression and did well as a senior. School sucked.
Julia, my kids like it; I think they're weird
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Reet, got it.
:)
I really enjoyed school but was bored a LOT. Got a's and b's without studying because i a) got bored and read the book in class over and over and b) would re-write my notes so they were perfect.
Neurosis can be your friend.
'Course, by the time i was in my senior year i'd pretty much run out of 'academic' classes to take and had a half a year's worth of Senior Comp, Creative Writing, Drama, Art, French, and 'Individual Reading' *go to class, read, book report once ever two weeks*. I graduated in January. They don't let 'em do that anymore.
I desperately want Monstrous to love school, and go to college and get a really good job 'cause what if she's a bubble-head who gets married and preggers, not in that order?
I'll die.