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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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How old is the speaker? I'm 25 and dyslexic. The words in this are words I a familiar with and I didn't drop any words. I stuttered a few words though. unless at was unleat and "few fading" made me stutter and stop and start again.
However, I've got lots of years of learning to cover under me and read it aloud in my own apartment with no audience. Had there been someone in the room I might/proally would have have had much more trouble. And if I had been asked to read this when I was younger I would have gone painfully slow, one word at time and tried to read a word ahead while reading slow. Even then I'm sure I would have had to double back and pick up or correct words.
That is all not to say that because I'm older I don't have any problems. I'm still horrid at confusing letters/words while writing. And last night I was at meeting where we were reading aloud and the person leading pointed at be to go next and I signaled back to her that I can't read and speak. And she went on to the next person. The difference between being older and younger is that reading aloud is all voluntary now. And just he act of being voluntary makes it less stressful (and I read better) and if I don't want to read I don't have to.
Eek, I'm not sure what I just wrote is heldful to you at all. Hope so, though.
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Gah! I hope this isn't becoming a ...thing! I just want to write the part, which is a SMALL part RIGHT. Ack.
:)
Thanks for your help - i appreciate that you took the time!
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Under stress that selection would give me complete fits.
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I'm so paranoid now.
*bites nails*
Ah well, we'll see how it turns out.