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, 21:20, March 18, 2020→Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) narrative form - Introduction for audio computer Read aloud: added illustrative example of correction of mechanical drop in vocal inflection of tone at end of sentence
Question marks can be inflected by the human reader as a rising tone of query, or as representing a falling tone of challenge or certainty at the end of a sentence posing a question. For this reason, here in this narrative form, question marks sometimes appear on the page following a quotation mark, instead of immediately preceding it, as a quotation-mark-and-question-mark together, the question mark being positioned after the quotation mark, to cause a normal rising tone of query, or without any quotation mark at all in order to cause a normal tone of finality in the sentence of a question, so that the peculiar placement of it on the printed page or its omission entirely is not an error, but an accommodation to the limitations of mechanical computer reading in order to cause a proper inflection of tone. With this in mind, almost all quotation marks have been removed for the most part from the page, as unnecessary for a vocal narration, but when used, appear in conjunction with the question mark. They do not appear as indicating a quotation but as a cue-mark to the automated computer reading for the intended inflection. In some instances, the question mark itself has been replaced by a period, in order to give the proper inflection of tone. A period at the end of a question in this audio adapted narrative form isn't a typo.
Question marks can be inflected by the human reader as a rising tone of query, or as representing a falling tone of challenge or certainty at the end of a sentence posing a question. For this reason, here in this narrative form, question marks sometimes appear on the page following a quotation mark, instead of immediately preceding it, as a quotation-mark-and-question-mark together, the question mark being positioned after the quotation mark, to cause a normal rising tone of query, or without any quotation mark at all in order to cause a normal tone of finality in the sentence of a question, so that the peculiar placement of it on the printed page or its omission entirely is not an error, but an accommodation to the limitations of mechanical computer reading in order to cause a proper inflection of tone. With this in mind, almost all quotation marks have been removed for the most part from the page, as unnecessary for a vocal narration, but when used, appear in conjunction with the question mark. They do not appear as indicating a quotation but as a cue-mark to the automated computer reading for the intended inflection. In some instances, the question mark itself has been replaced by a period, in order to give the proper inflection of tone. A period at the end of a question in this audio adapted narrative form isn't a typo.
Vocal inflection of tone can be wrong as read by the computer. It can be corrected by using hyphens with phonetic spelling. For example, in the following sentence, the computer audio reading drops the tone at the end of the sentence at the word "me".
:They asked this because it is written, Moses said, The LORD your God will raise up to you a Prophet from among you of your brethren like me.
The more natural inflection with a proper slight vocal emphasis on "me" is provided by adapting the spelling and punctuation for audio computer reading as follows:
:They asked this because it is written, Moses said, The LORD your God will raise up to you a Prophet from among you of your brethren like "Meegh".
:In the example of the above sentence, the computer audio reading doesn't drop the tone at the end of the sentence at the word "Meegh".
The punctuation of "dashes" in the printed text, normally intended to indicate a pause for emphasis, is totally ignored by the computer reading as if they don't exist, thus entirely omitting a necessary pause, sometimes even when the dash is disconnected or isolated in the sentence by a space before and after it. For this reason a comma or a semi-colon or colon, or even a period, is used in place of the dash in the regular text, to produce the same intended effect.
The punctuation of "dashes" in the printed text, normally intended to indicate a pause for emphasis, is totally ignored by the computer reading as if they don't exist, thus entirely omitting a necessary pause, sometimes even when the dash is disconnected or isolated in the sentence by a space before and after it. For this reason a comma or a semi-colon or colon, or even a period, is used in place of the dash in the regular text, to produce the same intended effect.