Well, I hope so, 'cause it's finished now. Of course, my reward for getting all that done is to have to tackle Springtime, which (as previously noted) is gigantic. So that's probably going to take... a while.

--G.
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One thing I've noticed in recording the early Symphony is that I didn't necessarily write down Kaitlyn's stutter properly. The repeated letters are often in places where it simply doesn't feel right to include them when actually reading the lines, and are missing in other places where the speaking process makes it feel obvious they should be happening. I'm not sure exactly how to explain how I know, other than to say that, having picked up a (comparatively very) faint speech defect of my own a few years ago that I have to concentrate a bit to minimize, I've become more conscious of how the machinery works, as it were. (And a bit more conscious of phrases I've written which really, really didn't take a problem with eliding repeated consonants into account. I would never have used the word "institute" so bloody much if I had known that six years later I would acquire nerve damage that made it hard not to pronounce it "insatoot".)

(As an aside, having watched and very much enjoyed The King's Speech, isn't it odd that they spent so much time working on George VI's stammer and never even mentioned his rhotacism? "In this gwave hour... ")

As for Sky's name, all I can say is, you guys don't get to hear the failed takes. :)

Partially it's a question of practice, though. The same is also true of typing; when I was doing the original Aegis Florea I had to spend a little while just practicing before I could type "Teikokukagekidan Hanagumi" at anything like normal speed...

--G.
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That just makes him sound pwoperly wegal don't you know?

Oh, I see. It's not a speech defect, it's a posh people thing. Although I'm not sure that explains Jonathan Woss. Actually, I'm not sure anything explains Jonathan Ross.

Although he does know a surprising amount about the history and culture of American comic books - surprising coming from an English... what would you call him? Broadcasting Personality, I suppose... in particular. In one of his appearances on QI, he busted out a number of facts about Golden and Silver Age comics, including the stranger-than-fiction origins of Wonder Woman (in the real world, not her in-story origin) and a truly delightful little nugget about the Comics Code as it was enforced in the '60s.

--G.
"Because they lettered in all caps, you couldn't use the word 'flick', for fear that the L and the I would run together and Spider-Man would end up saying, 'Look out, he's got a fuck knife.'"
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