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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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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.