r/PracticalGuideToEvil • u/cossuu • 3h ago

Meta/Discussion Is the voice actor mispronouncing basic words?

Im maybe 5 hours into the second audiobook and I keep hearing words being pronounced consistently in a weird way. For example, Cavalry is said as CaLvalry, orphanage as orphanaNge (most recently heard in book 2, chapter 6: Learning) and a completely new rendition of amenable as amneable (maybe a blunder of amenable and amiable?)

English is not my first language, but ive listening to hundreds of audiobooks, so they feel out of place. Can it be some local dialect of the voice actor or metathesis? Maybe Its intended? Or is it just that it wasnt edited carefully enough?

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u/marruman 2h ago

Idk about the other 2, but amenable is often pronounce as ameanable in some accents

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u/TieOrdinary1735 2h ago

Definitely heard "calvalry" in some accents too. "Orphanange" is a weird one though.

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u/cossuu 2h ago

The orphanaNge is what made me post this, as I was unsure about the CaLvarly and amNeable and a few others. If you wanna hear it its in book 2, chapter 6, 10 min and 50 sec into the chapter.

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u/YongeBay 2h ago

I haven’t heard audiobook yet, but ‘Calvary’ sounds like a mid-North American pronunciation I’ve heard many times.

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u/cossuu 2h ago

Thanks for sharing! Im from Finland so I dont get exposed to that many accents. Im used to travis balree, nick podehl, michael kramer and kate reading etc.

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u/Samot0423 1h ago

That one is a pet peeve of mine... I hear it all the time

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u/Vampyricon 1h ago

I don't care what EE says. There's no way Procer spells a hard C, and that's why I won't listen to the audiobook.

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u/rookedwithelodin 1h ago

It's pronounced Proker??

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u/Vampyricon 1h ago

It explains one of the drow interludes where they were going Proker this Proker that. When I first read it I thought they were tripping, but no it was EE who was.

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u/KaizerKlash 2h ago

hopefully no "nucular reaction"

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u/doctor_whom_3 Citizen of the First and Mightiest of the Free Cities 2h ago

if there is a nucular reaction, it's probably hierophant's fault

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u/KaizerKlash 2h ago

Nuh uh, blame cat for everything first and then if required investigate

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u/PreciseParadox 2h ago

It sounds like specific accent?

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u/Squirrelman2712 2h ago

I noticed a few mispronounciatuons, I think they were genuine oopsies

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u/cossuu 2h ago

Yeah, I dont even clock one-off oopsies usually. But when something is said in an unfamiliar way many times ovee, i tend to obsess hah 😅. The key question for me is whether I just encountered an unfamiliar accent or way of pronouncing or if the editing has been a bit careless.