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Could you provide an example of a work that is actively hard to read aloud?
by compressedgas 2y ago
Could you provide an example of a work that is actively hard to read aloud?
- hprotagonist 2y agoAny technical paper written in the last century. A surprising number of children's books -- either they're too simple, or too! over! punctuated?! or just carelessly written. Poems whose shape is as important as their sound or sense -- like https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47244/buffalo-bill-s https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47244/buffalo-bill-s things written without a care towards euphony. I think fantasy/scifi that clearly never intends anyone to attempt to _pronounce_ the names of characters or locations fall into this, but other things do too.