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podficmeta2010-03-18 03:51 pm
paraka) wrote in podficmeta2010-03-18 03:51 pm
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Pointing Out Errors?
I was wondering how useful it is for podficers to have listeners point out when they've made a mistake?
I know with fic many author's are ok with having typos or spelling errors pointed out, but how useful is it for podficers? It's a lot easier to edit an LJ entry then it is to go back and edit a podfic then re-upload and all that.
I could see it being really useful if it's a mistake they're likely to repeat in the future, like mispronouncing a common word or fandom specific term. But what if it's just a one off mistake?
As a follow up question, will mistakes stop you from listening to a podfic? Either by making you stop or by stopping you from listening to it again.
Personally, in the last two days I've re-listened to podfics that had mispronunciation errors. In one fic it's of a fandom specific term. I haven't really examined if that has made me listen to the podfic less, although the word is used often and I haven't listened to the podfic as often as my love of the fic should cause. In the second case, it's a podfic I really love, but a podficer I love and it's a one off word unlikely to ever come up in her other podfics, however it bothers me so much that I started cringing 5 minutes before the mistake happened in anticipation, the mistake was memorable enough for me to be able to anticipate it 5 minutes in advance and it prompted me to make this post.
I know with fic many author's are ok with having typos or spelling errors pointed out, but how useful is it for podficers? It's a lot easier to edit an LJ entry then it is to go back and edit a podfic then re-upload and all that.
I could see it being really useful if it's a mistake they're likely to repeat in the future, like mispronouncing a common word or fandom specific term. But what if it's just a one off mistake?
As a follow up question, will mistakes stop you from listening to a podfic? Either by making you stop or by stopping you from listening to it again.
Personally, in the last two days I've re-listened to podfics that had mispronunciation errors. In one fic it's of a fandom specific term. I haven't really examined if that has made me listen to the podfic less, although the word is used often and I haven't listened to the podfic as often as my love of the fic should cause. In the second case, it's a podfic I really love, but a podficer I love and it's a one off word unlikely to ever come up in her other podfics, however it bothers me so much that I started cringing 5 minutes before the mistake happened in anticipation, the mistake was memorable enough for me to be able to anticipate it 5 minutes in advance and it prompted me to make this post.
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You know, the more I think about it and read the comments, I think the tipping point for me really depends on the reader. If someone is a non-native English speaker I'm going to give them a lot more leeway on pronunciations so long as I can still tell what they mean. Hell, even if they are a native English speaker but have a very different accent than mine I'll give them more room.
For the examples I gave in my post, the first one where they constantly mispronounced a word and it bugged me but didn't really throw me out, it was a reader with an English accent. If the word hadn't been a made up word from the show, I would have just assumed that's how they pronounced the word in England.
The second example I gave however, was from an American podficer, and a damn good one at that. Even though it's totally understandable why she mispronounced the word (it was a non-English name, so...) it threw me out because normally she pronounces things as I would and that was not how I would pronounce that name. Also, I think it threw me out harder because the podficer is such a good one, I have higher standards for her (that doesn't sound fair, but that's how I react instinctively...).
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It's just... if you expect things to be different then you're not surprised when they are.