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;Punctuation

;Punctuation

Visual punctuation of the page copy has been adapted for the sake of the audio narrative so that the computer reading of the narrative is smoother and more natural to listen to. These odd-looking punctuations, omissions, additions and insertions of punctuation marks are not errors that need to be corrected by a proofreader. They have been carefully checked for audio accuracy. What results is a narrative according to a kind of vocal "manual of style" in speech that is proper to the narration form of the text, but eccentric or completely improper on the displayed printed page.

Visual punctuation of the page copy has been adapted for the sake of the audio narrative so that the computer reading of the narrative is smoother and more natural to listen to. These odd-looking punctuations, omissions, additions and insertions of punctuation marks are not errors that need to be corrected by a proof reader. They have been carefully checked for audio accuracy. What results is an audio narrative rendered according to a kind of vocal "manual of style" in speech, proper to the narration form of the text, but eccentric or completely improper on the displayed printed page.

Mechanical computer reading sometimes abruptly pauses or falters over some of the standard punctuation of regular printed text, and sometimes even when no punctuation is encountered. In other cases, some odd pauses in the mechanical computer reading unexpectedly occur when it encounters a particular word or phrase. Many commas have been removed from the display of the print copy, simply because they produce unnatural broken pauses in an audio computer reading. But some commas or other useful punctuation marks have been added, such as quotation marks, semicolons, colons, even periods in the middle of a long sentence, to provide a pause where necessary, to avoid an unintended mechanically hurried reading of a sentence without pause, so that the computer reading aloud of the page makes more sense to the listener and can be more easily processed in hearing it read.  

Mechanical computer reading sometimes abruptly pauses or falters over some of the standard punctuation of regular printed text, and sometimes even when no punctuation is encountered. In other cases, some odd pauses in the mechanical computer reading unexpectedly occur when it encounters some particular word or phrase. There seems to be no consistent pattern to this occurrence. In some instances of attempting to edit a persistently repeated pausing, in repeated audio re-readings of a certain sentence or phrase in review, for the purpose of determining, by trial and error, an appropriate audio adaptation of spelling or punctuation for the sake of normal verbal expression, a grouping of the involved construction of words, by removing the spaces between them, has finally proved to be the only means of correcting this defect of abruptly pausing in the reading in some of the more particularly troublesome places in the text. Many commas have been removed from the display of the normal print copy, simply because they produce unnatural broken pauses in an audio computer reading. But some commas or other useful punctuation marks have necessarily been added, such as quotation marks, semicolons, colons, even periods in the middle of a long sentence, to provide varying lengths of a useful verbal pause where necessary, some only very slight, to avoid an unintended mechanically hurried reading of a sentence without the expected ordinary moments of minor pause of thought, in a grouping of words expressing a single idea or subject reference, so that the computer reading aloud of the page makes more sense to the listener and can be more easily processed in hearing it read.  

A period or colon is sometimes inserted into the print copy in order to force a necessary pause in the reading where vocal emphasis is appropriate and natural, where the computer fails to provide for it; and sometimes the capitalization of a word in the middle of a sentence is used for the same effect. Some periods have been removed, because the computer actually reads them as the word "dot", yes, "dot", or the period mark has been repositioned to avoid its being pronounced.  

A period or colon is sometimes inserted into the adapted print copy of the text in order to force a necessary pause in the reading, where a slight pause for natural vocal emphasis is appropriate and natural, where the computer fails to provide for it. Some periods have been removed, because the computer actually reads them as the word "dot", yes, "dot", or the period mark has been repositioned to avoid its being verbally read as a dot.  

Question marks can be variably 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, depending on the context. For this reason, here in this narrative form, question marks sometimes appear on the page display following a quotation mark, instead of immediately preceding it, as a quotation-mark-and-question-mark together in that order, 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. Sometimes this method does not generate the desired vocal inflection. Where a human reader might vocally emphasize, the audio computer reading fails to satisfy. With this in mind, almost all quotation marks have been removed for the from the page display copy of the text of this Harmony, as unnecessary for a vocal narration, but when used, appear in conjunction with the question mark. Moreover, where the quotation mark appears in the adapted text it never appears on the page of the audio adaptation as indicating a quotation in any way but as a cue-mark to the automated computer reading for the intended inflection. When the quotation mark is used to bracket what a person in the narrative said as a vocal inflective emphasis, it sometimes appears to the sighted reader as indicating a normal verbal statement in the text of what someone said. This is purely coincidental. Quotation marks appearing in the audio adapted text are not in fact used as normal quotation marks, but only for the purpose of vocal 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. Where the audio adapted text lacks any punctuation at the end of a sentence it is not due to a typo omission or careless mistake. Also there are instances in the audio adapted text where a period and space is followed by a word spelled with a lower case first letter instead of the expected capital letter: this too is not a typographical error but a necessary adaptation for the audio reading.

Question marks can be variably 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, depending on the context. For this reason, here in this narrative form question marks sometimes appear on the page display following a quotation mark instead of immediately preceding it, as a quotation-mark-and-question-mark together in that order, the question mark being positioned after a quotation mark to cause a normal rising tone of query, or without any question mark at all but a period instead in order to cause a normal tone of finality in the sentence of a question, so that the peculiar placement of the question mark on the printed page or its omission is not an error but an accommodation to the limitations of mechanical computer reading, in order to cause a proper inflection of tone. Where a human reader might vocally emphasize a word or particular syllable of a word, the audio computer reading sometimes fails to entirely satisfy, and no amount of inventive trial and error adaptive phonetic spelling attempted here for this feature produced it. With this in mind, understand that all quotation marks have been removed from the copy of the normal print text set aside here for adaptation, as unnecessary for indicating to the reader a vocal narration, but when used they sometimes appear at the end of a sentence in conjunction with the question mark. In some instances, as already mentioned the question mark itself has been replaced by a period, in order to give the proper inflection of tone in the audio reading. A period at the end of a question in this audio adapted narrative form isn't a typo. Where the audio adapted text lacks any punctuation at all at the end of a sentence, leaving the end of it with an unfinished empty space, it is not due to a typo omission or careless mistake. Also there are instances in the audio adapted text where a period and space is followed by a word spelled with a lower case first letter instead of the expected capital letter: this too is not a typographical error but a necessary adaptation for the audio reading.

When vocal inflection of tone is wrong as read by the computer, it has been corrected by using hyphens with phonetic spellings. For example, in the following sentence, the computer audio reading drops the tone at the end of the sentence at the word "me".

 

 

When vocal inflection of tone is wrong as read by the computer, it has been corrected here by using hyphens with phonetic spellings. For example, in the following sentence, the computer audio reading drops the tone at the end of the following 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.

: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:

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 "Mee".  

: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-Mee".  

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 "Mee". And here is another example, using the hyphen:

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 "Mee". And here is another example, without using the hyphen:

:Normal spelling:  

:Normal spelling  

:The LORD said to me, They have well said that which they have spoken. I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren like you.

::The LORD said to me, They have well said that which they have spoken. I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren like you.

:Adapted spelling:  

:Adapted spelling  

:The LORD said to me, They have well said that which they have spoken. I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren "like-Yew".

::The LORD said to me, They have well said that which they have spoken. I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren "like Hew".

:"I AM" is rendered "Aye-am", and "Aye-yam", and "Ighe-am"

And there are others.

 

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 where needed and even hurrying faster through it instead, 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 audio narrative 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 where needed and even hurrying faster through the dash instead as if there is not even a space between the words separated by the dash, 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 audio narrative effect.

;Inverted phrases

;Inverted phrases

;Weird mispronunciations

;Weird mispronunciations

Mechanical computer reading also weirdly mispronounces some proper names of people and even some ordinary words, such as "sow" in sowing seed as the word for a female pig or bear "sow". 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 display of the page for the sake of proper pronunciation by the Read aloud and Read out loud audio functions of the computer. In the particular case of the computer misreading the name of Onesimus the visual spelling of his name is rendered "O-nessymus". Charism is mechanically read wrongly with a soft "c h" by the computer as if it's the name of a belief in burning things until they are reduced to a state of being completely charred called "char-ism", when it should be pronounced with the hard form of "c h" as "care-ism". The name of Decebalus in text drawn from Suetonius in this Harmony is rendered phonetically on the page as "Desseb all us". Spaces are used in this instance instead of hyphens, A similar technique of phonetic adaptation is made for other names of people and places, so the computer audio reading will say it right. Some purists will object to the rendering of Bible names and places in their popular forms as normally heard and used by the common person instead of according to their academically proper reading according to the original languages in Hebrew, Aramaic, Egyptian and Greek. While this encyclopedic feature is intended to be educational, it is not intended to confuse the ordinary reader unfamiliar with the linguistically proper pronunciation of them. This will seem to some to be a guilty perpetuation of an error of ignorant convention.  

Mechanical computer reading also weirdly mispronounces some proper names of people and even some ordinary words, such as s o w, "to sow", in sowing seed, as the word s o w with the sound of "ow" instead, pronouncing it as the word for a female pig or bear, "a sow". For example, the name Onesimus is read by the computer as "One sime us". For this reason phonetic spellings have been substituted when necessary on the visual display of the adaptive page for the sake of proper pronunciation by the Read aloud and Read out loud audio functions of the computer. In the particular case of the computer misreading the name of Onesimus the visual spelling of his name is rendered "O-nessymus". Charism is mechanically read wrongly with a soft "c h" by the computer as if it's the name of a belief in burning things until they are completely charred called "char-ism", when it should be pronounced with the hard form of "c h" as "care-ism". The name of Decebalus in text drawn from Suetonius in this Harmony is rendered phonetically on the page as "Desseb Al us". Spaces are used in this instance instead of hyphens, A similar technique of phonetic adaptation is made for other names of people and places, so the computer audio reading will say it right. Some purists will object to the rendering of Bible names and places in their popular forms as normally heard and used by the common person instead of according to their academically proper reading according to the original languages in Hebrew, Aramaic, Egyptian and Greek. While this encyclopedic feature is intended to be educational, it is not intended to confuse the ordinary reader unfamiliar with the linguistically proper pronunciation of them. This will seem to some to be a guilty perpetuation of an error of ignorant convention. The Message of the Gospel is of more paramount importance, and such a purist audio reading would confront the ordinary listener with a serious distraction having nothing to do with the fundamental Gospel Message that Jesus Christ is Savior and Lord and only through Him can anyone have the Unmerited Eternal Life of God by faithfully doing what He Says with works that are pleasing to Him.

American usage is the standard here instead of the European forms. For example the word "Emmaus" is pronounced either as "Em-may-us" or as "Em-mouse": the first form is here preferred and used as the adapted phonetic form for the narrative rendering of the text. Occasionally the reader and listener will disagree with the audio adapted forms used in this Harmony of the Gospel Conservative Version narrative form. They may be right. Popular usage is not always correct but it is the more accepted form for common understanding of the meaning. The more serious student of the Bible will sooner or later encounter the accurate pronunciation of ancient biblical forms and is encouraged to adopt them.

American usage is the standard here instead of the European forms. For example the word "Emmaus" is pronounced either as "Em-may-us" or as "Em-mouse": the first form is here preferred and used as the adapted phonetic form for the narrative rendering of the text. Occasionally the reader and listener will disagree with the audio adapted forms used in this Harmony of the Gospel Conservative Version narrative form. They may be right. Popular usage is not always correct but it is the more accepted form for common understanding of the meaning. The more serious student of the Bible will sooner or later encounter the accurate pronunciation of ancient biblical forms and is encouraged to adopt them.

The computer forms of pronunciation can also change between episodes of reading the words of the same ordinary text, as when you log off and go away and come back and log on for a second reading of it again and the uncommon words are sometimes read differently from before, sometimes changing their meanings, which can be confusing for the listener who can't read print, especially for students who study class-assigned books and materials with the aid of audio readings. For this reason phonetic spellings are used in this narrative form of Harmony of the Gospel in order to produce the right pronunciation in the computer narrative of the text each time. To accommodate the sighted reader of this narrative form of Harmony of the Gospel Conservative Version, all necessary phonetic spellings on the page are bracketed by quotation marks, to show the sighted reader that they are not misspelling accidents or "typos" overlooked by tired proofreaders.

The computer forms of pronunciation can also change between episodes of reading the words of the same ordinary text, as when you log off and go away and come back and log on for a second reading of it again and the uncommon words are sometimes read differently from before, sometimes changing their meanings, which can be confusing for the listener who can't read print, especially for students who study class-assigned books and materials with the aid of audio readings. For this reason phonetic spellings are used in this narrative form of Harmony of the Gospel in order to produce the right pronunciation in the computer narrative of the text each time. To accommodate the sighted reader of this narrative form of Harmony of the Gospel Conservative Version, all necessary phonetic spellings on the page are bracketed by quotation marks, to show the sighted reader that they are not misspelling accidents or "typos" overlooked by tired proofreaders.

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