User:IndependentSkeptic/draft page

For now I'm just setting up this page. This way I'll have a place to assemble and put materials together in developing new articles for Conservapedia as a contributor. I noticed that other people have already done the same thing.

I'm planning on using it first to create an adapted narrative form of the nine pages of the Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version). I just finished my first proposal of boldfacing every occurrence of "Lord" there. I have listened to Read aloud of every page of the shorter form and there's potential for some unexpected insights that you only get from hearing it. The text really needs some phonetic adaptations of some of the spellings on the page for listening. That way an audio computer "Read aloud" will not give weird readings of some of the words in the text when listened to. I really want to do this for the benefit of people who just want to listen to the narrative. Mainly because I care about people who have impaired eyesight or are blind and just want to hear how the whole New Testament fits together with first century Roman history, like you have it here. --IndependentSkeptic (talk) 17:57, 5 March 2020 (EST)

Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) narrative form Index for audio computer Read aloud

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Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) narrative form Introduction for audio computer Read aloud

The narrative form of Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) is an adaptation of the redacted text of this same encyclopedic feature, using phonetic spellings on the page. This is so that the audio computer "Read aloud" function reads it more naturally as a kind of "radio narrative" for people with bad vision or who are blind or are unable to look at a computer screen or read the printed page for very long. People who simply listen to the Bible being read often get unexpected insights when they can hear. This is a benefit.

Chapter headings are not part of the narrative text, so they are not included in the reading. Each page of the normal Harmony of the Gospel text here is seven chapters. Each of these seven-chapter pages is presented in the narrative form of this feature as a continuous reading for listening instead, without any mention of the chapter headings. The chapters being read are mentioned in the heading of the page.

Some minor additions to the text of Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) have been made so that the reading is more understandable. For example, instead of abruptly beginning the reading of some of the epistles or some of the historical documents suddenly without any warning, an introductory statement is used, such as "Now this is what he wrote". This is so the listener will know what's happening. In the same way, to make clear that the epistle or document reading is finished, a statement saying so is added before going on with the narrative.

In some places of the reading of the text of this Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) the computer sometimes skips whole sections of text which have to be broken up to be read without omissions, whole and entire, like the genealogies in Matthew and Luke, and sections of the history narrative from Josephus.

Visual punctuation on the page has been adapted so that the computer reading of the narrative is smoother and more natural to listen to. Mechanical computer reading sometimes abruptly pauses or stumbles over some of the standard punctuation of regular printed text. Many commas have been removed simply because they produce unnatural pauses in the computer reading. But some commas have been added where necessary so the computer reading aloud of the page makes more sense to the listener. In some cases, phrases have been rearranged because the mechanical reading of the computer breaks up a sentence into two or more parts, which it then reads as separate sentences that don't make much sense. It doesn't change the meaning. It's just a necessary adaptation to get around the limitations of mechanical computer reading, which simply makes more sense of the text of the narrative when read that way.

Mechanical computer reading also weirdly mispronounces some proper names of people and even some of the ordinary words. For example, the name Onesimus is read by the computer as "One sime us". For this reason phonetic spellings have been substituted on the visual page for the sake of proper pronunciation by the audio computer Read aloud and Read out loud functions. In the particular case of the computer misreading the name of Onesimus the visual spelling of his name is rendered "O-nessymus". Charism should be pronounced "care-ism". The name of Decebalus in Suetonius is rendered "Desseb ballus". A similar adaptation is made for other names of people and places so the computer reading will say it right.

The computer often cannot distinguish the past and present tenses of some words. Sometimes it doesn't use the right inflexion or accentuation of syllables of words in the context of the reading. For example, the past tense of "read" is sometimes given by the computer as the verb to read something as if reading right now, but for this narrative form on the page the word is phonetically corrected to "red". On the page it doesn't look right, but in the computer reading it sounds right. The word "live" is sometimes read as in "alive" when it should be pronounced "liv" without the 'e' on the end. The word "untie" is O.K., but the computer reads "untying" as "un-tee-ing". And the computer sometimes pronounces "present" with the accent on the first syllable as "prez-unt", and sometimes reads it as presenting something, to "pre-zent" it. The computer pronunciation can change between episodes of reading the words of the same ordinary text, when you go away and come back for a second reading of it again. For this reason phonetic spellings are used in order to produce the right pronunciation in the computer narrative of the text each time. To accommodate the sighted reader of this harmony of the Gospel conservative version narrative form, all necessary phonetic spellings on the page are bracketed by quotation marks, to show that they are not misspelling accidents overlooked by tired proofreaders.

As an illustration, turn on the Read aloud function on your computer or device, and listen to this page. Compare the reading here below of the text from Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) shorter form, and the phonetic adaptation of the same text from the Harmony of the Gospel Conservative Version narrative form.

Shorter Form

Narrative Form

Harmony of the Gospel (Conservative Version) narrative form of Chapters 57-63 for audio computer Read aloud

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