0487 – 11 - Contractions and Elisions

2022.05.02 – 0487 – 11 - Contractions and Elisions11 - Contractions and ElisionsEnsure you have natural conversational contractions in your delivery: “they’ll”, “couldn’t” and (if appropriate for your programme or podcast) “coz”, “wanna”. (Obviously check with a director for ‘signed off’ scripts that you can make these kinds of changes.)We saw earlier how elision makes a read sound more natural. That is, the slight running on of words into one another, with a less choppy presentation that comes with sounding, each, individual, word. In English, we often don’t say a word exactly as it is spelt, because we want to sound natural and fluent for a way to make your read conversational, ‘every-day-of-the-week’ kind of read.For instance, look back at that previous sentence:·        Not everyone pronounces the ‘t’ in “often” (and say “offen” instead).·        Hardly anyone would say “exactly” with a clear ‘t’’, but smooth it out to say “exacly”·        We are likely to say “nd” or “n” rather than “and” (how do you really say “fish and chips”? I bet it’s close to “fishnchips”? ·        “For a” is often said “frer”·        “Your” could be changed to “yer”·        “Every” is said “evry”·        “Day of” would become “day’ve”, “kind of” changes to “kind’ve” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.