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I tried listening to your podcast episode, but the windiness of your intro didn't get me hooked after 10 mins of listening and I had to stop listening.

soneca 10y ago
It is not "mine" podcast, I just listened to it. I edited my original comment to include "finishing listening" - I am not sure it is correct English, but at least I think clears this misunderstanding.
- throwanem 10y ago
  "Finishing listening" is arguably grammatical and certainly clear as to meaning, but a double verb like that is relatively rarely encountered in modern colloquial English, and falls somewhat oddly on the ear as a result. In a case like this, the lexical context generally supplies sufficient clue; one might instead, for example, say "...15 minutes away from the end of the...", or just "...from finishing the...", and have only a negligible fraction of readers fail to derive "listening" from the context of talking about a podcast. When that context might not be clear, it's worth expanding on the nature of the action described, but such cases are unlikely to be common and should be fairly obvious when they do occur. Hope this helps!
  - soneca 10y ago
    It does, thanks!
snakeboy 10y ago
Dan is definitely a bit long-winded at times, but for me, podcasts work best when the person behind the mic has a real persona that you can relate to. I tune in to Dan Carlin because he's a smart, insightful guy, but I also just love to listen to him talk and feel that I am connecting to someone when I do. To that end, I actually enjoy the intros and asides as much as the historical content of the episode! I feel that Ira Glass (This American Life), Jad Abumrad (Radiolab) and Roman Mars (99 Percent Invisible) all have this same effect.
kcarter80 10y ago
Your use of the second person and subsequent criticism implies a misunderstanding.
komali2 10y ago
That's why I can't listen to Dan Carlin. I really enjoy the overall content, but I don't agree that his podcasts are long because they're in-depth, I think they're long because he digresses and just takes a long time to say things. Even at 1.5x speed the rate was unbearable.

soneca 10y ago

It is not "mine" podcast, I just listened to it. I edited my original comment to include "finishing listening" - I am not sure it is correct English, but at least I think clears this misunderstanding.

throwanem 10y ago
"Finishing listening" is arguably grammatical and certainly clear as to meaning, but a double verb like that is relatively rarely encountered in modern colloquial English, and falls somewhat oddly on the ear as a result. In a case like this, the lexical context generally supplies sufficient clue; one might instead, for example, say "...15 minutes away from the end of the...", or just "...from finishing the...", and have only a negligible fraction of readers fail to derive "listening" from the context of talking about a podcast. When that context might not be clear, it's worth expanding on the nature of the action described, but such cases are unlikely to be common and should be fairly obvious when they do occur. Hope this helps!
- soneca 10y ago
  It does, thanks!

snakeboy 10y ago

Dan is definitely a bit long-winded at times, but for me, podcasts work best when the person behind the mic has a real persona that you can relate to. I tune in to Dan Carlin because he's a smart, insightful guy, but I also just love to listen to him talk and feel that I am connecting to someone when I do. To that end, I actually enjoy the intros and asides as much as the historical content of the episode! I feel that Ira Glass (This American Life), Jad Abumrad (Radiolab) and Roman Mars (99 Percent Invisible) all have this same effect.

kcarter80 10y ago

Your use of the second person and subsequent criticism implies a misunderstanding.

komali2 10y ago

That's why I can't listen to Dan Carlin. I really enjoy the overall content, but I don't agree that his podcasts are long because they're in-depth, I think they're long because he digresses and just takes a long time to say things. Even at 1.5x speed the rate was unbearable.