Dictionary.com is my friend. Dictionary.com is indeed awesome. However the downside to that is you need to know that you don't know how to pronounce a word. :P There are words I've been saying for years in my head, and saying incorrectly. I'm always paranoid that I'll hit one of those words in a podfic and just horrible mispronounce it and not know :S I suppose that's what betas are for.
A lot of my podfics are done for a charity auction and the bidder picks the story, so I just try and do my best with the story, even if it's one I might not have picked myself to record. I'm in that boat right now and I think it's kind of making these things clearer for me. I was unconsciously qualifying every fic I read for podficability so would steer clear of podficcing certain fics. Then I'm handed one that hasn't had that kind of qualifying and have to make it work. It made me realize just how much I qualify fics before podficcing them.
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Dictionary.com is indeed awesome. However the downside to that is you need to know that you don't know how to pronounce a word. :P There are words I've been saying for years in my head, and saying incorrectly. I'm always paranoid that I'll hit one of those words in a podfic and just horrible mispronounce it and not know :S I suppose that's what betas are for.
A lot of my podfics are done for a charity auction and the bidder picks the story, so I just try and do my best with the story, even if it's one I might not have picked myself to record.
I'm in that boat right now and I think it's kind of making these things clearer for me. I was unconsciously qualifying every fic I read for podficability so would steer clear of podficcing certain fics. Then I'm handed one that hasn't had that kind of qualifying and have to make it work. It made me realize just how much I qualify fics before podficcing them.