08-05-2021, 01:22 PM
I've been noticing some disturbing trends in video narration recently.
And I'm not talking about shitty text-to-speech apps. I'm talking about live narrators.
The first one involves word pronunciation. A lot of young people nowadays put the emphasis on the wrong syllable in words such as "component" and "distribute." The particular pronunciation of "component" in question is one I've only heard in obscure technical videos from the 1960s before now.
Worse than that is how video narrators and people in the comments section put a full stop in the middle of a sentence and continue the rest of the sentence as though beginning a new one. I don't know if the narrators are poor readers or simply reading from a poorly written script and making no effort to correct it.
Also, a lot of commenters arbitrarily capitalize words in the middle of a sentence in a style reminiscent of many pre-18th century writings.
And I'm not talking about shitty text-to-speech apps. I'm talking about live narrators.
The first one involves word pronunciation. A lot of young people nowadays put the emphasis on the wrong syllable in words such as "component" and "distribute." The particular pronunciation of "component" in question is one I've only heard in obscure technical videos from the 1960s before now.
Worse than that is how video narrators and people in the comments section put a full stop in the middle of a sentence and continue the rest of the sentence as though beginning a new one. I don't know if the narrators are poor readers or simply reading from a poorly written script and making no effort to correct it.
Also, a lot of commenters arbitrarily capitalize words in the middle of a sentence in a style reminiscent of many pre-18th century writings.
