“Maybe one of the narrators has some regional dialect, but I’ve started to notice the way he’ll end D-words with Ts, G-words with Ks, and S-words with something of a hiss.
I first noticed it in the episode with the mold.
“The whole fridge was coveret in molt,” he said. She flincht, her stomach turnink. “That’s so gross,” she said.
I tried tuning it out, changing headphones, playing it at 1.5×, but it’s hard to ignore—especially when it sounds like it’s weirdly intentional, because I’ve heard runnink, going, sayink, drinkink, and singing in one sentence.
Another narrrraaaaator likes to reeeeead things in a pohhhhet voice… and by the time the rhyme she finds / has helped her find a metric pace / to read the line as if it is / some-thing that should be read just like / this I have gotten relatively / lost and I don’t quite recall / how the paragraph original / ly started.
And sometimes they all read words with odd emphasis or pronunciation, like “settlement” as set-la-mint?
The quirks of speech and pro-noun-ciation are just so off-puttinK to me I just can’t relackxs ant enjoy it.”
Sean Scian via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
07/13/22