[bksvol-discuss] Re: A question re homonyms in context
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:49:45 -0700 (PDT)
Thanks, Lissi. That's very interesting. Plus, I didn't
realize JAWS was speech. I guess I just didn't give it
much thought. I did assume Daisy was speech.
Which has the different voices from which one can
choose, or do they both?
Cindy
--- Estelnalissi <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear Cindy,
>
> Jaws has a time with homonyms. For, You will read a
> book, it says "You will
> red a book." not "You will reed a book. It's
> unpredictable. In
> ***
> "The poor invalid has invalid insurance."
>
> Jaws pronounced both words as for not valid.
>
> ***
> but in
>
> "An invalid with invalid insurance be ware."
> It pronounced the homonyms differently and
> correctly.
>
> "Having invalid insurance is bad for an invalid."
> Was also pronounced correctly.
>
> If you are an invalid and you have invalid
> insurance, go elsewhere."
> Back to two not valids again.
>
> An invalid invalid is a fake.
> Another 2 not valids.
>
> This isn't a homonym, but airadil, my e mail address
> should be pronounced
> air as in airplane, uh as in bug and dil as in dill
> pickle but jaws says a
> rattle. that sounds exactly like a babies rattle He
> even makes the d sound
> for the two teez as we do in casual speech as in
> raddle.
>
> I'm inordinately fond of Jaws and consider his
> quirky pronunciation part of
> his personality and charm. He's read more to me than
> any other single voice
> except my mother's. She read to us practically every
> day of our lives from
> infancy until adolescence changed our priorities. .
>
> Always with love,
>
> Lissi
> "My story is finally out there in the ether, a
> self-sufficient organism
> beyond my control, changing shape in every new mind
> that absorbs it."
> From The Night Listener, a novel by
> Armistead Maupin
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 4:23 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] A question re homonyms in
> context
>
>
> > In the book I'm almost finished validating, there
> is a
> > play on words--invalid, meaning sick person, and
> > invalid, i.e., in val id, meaning not valid. The
> > latter word is discussed, its meanings--but I'm
> > curious--how does speech, i.e., the Daisy reader
> or
> > whatever, distinguish pronunciations between
> homonyms
> > in texts. In this case, in val id is italicized.
> Will
> > the speech reader chnage the pronunciation from
> > invalid to in val id because of that? Of will it
> > pronounce both words the same and the reader will
> get
> > the difference from the explanation that is given.
> In
> > other similar cases, does the speech reader read
> both
> > words however the first one happens to be
> pronounced?
> >
> > Just curious.
> >
> > Cindy
> >
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