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;Punctuation

;Punctuation

Visual punctuation on the page has been adapted so that the computer reading of the narrative is smoother and more natural to listen to. These odd-looking punctuations are not errors that need to be corrected by a proofreader. Mechanical computer reading sometimes abruptly pauses or falters over some of the standard punctuation of regular printed text. In other cases some odd pauses in the mechanical computer reading occur when it encounters a particular word or phrase. Many commas have been removed simply because they produce unnatural pauses in the audio computer reading. But some commas or other useful punctuation marks have been added to provide a pause where necessary, to avoid an unintended hurried reading through a sentence without pause so that the computer reading aloud of the page makes more sense to the listener. A period is sometimes inserted to force a necessary pause in the reading where vocal emphasis is appropriate and natural, where the computer fails to provide for it. 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, sometimes even when isolated by a space before and after, and a comma or semi-colon or colon, even a period, or the capitalization of a word in the middle of a sentence, is used instead to produce the same intended effect.  

Visual punctuation on the page has been adapted so that the computer reading of the narrative is smoother and more natural to listen to. These odd-looking punctuations are not errors that need to be corrected by a proofreader. They have been carefully checked for audio accuracy. Mechanical computer reading sometimes abruptly pauses or falters over some of the standard punctuation of regular printed text. In other cases some odd pauses in the mechanical computer reading occur when it encounters a particular word or phrase. Many commas have been removed simply because they produce unnatural pauses in the audio computer reading. But some commas or other useful punctuation marks have been added to provide a pause where necessary, to avoid an unintended hurried reading-through of a sentence without pause, so that the computer reading aloud of the page makes more sense to the listener. A period is sometimes inserted to force a necessary pause in the reading where 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". Question marks, which can be inflected by the human reader as a rising tone of query, or as representing a falling tone at the end of a sentence posing a question, much like the "sound" of a period, are here in this narrative form sometimes positioned after an end-quotation mark to cause a normal rising tone of query, and before an end-quotation mark to cause a normal tone of finality in the sentence of a question, so that the peculiar placement of it on the printed page is not a typographical error, but an accommodation to the limitations of mechanical computer reading in order to cause a proper inflection of tone. 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, entirely omitting a pause, sometimes even when the dash is disconnected or isolated by a space before and after; and a comma or semi-colon or colon, even a period, or the capitalization of a word in the middle of a sentence is used instead to produce the same intended effect.  

;Inverted phrases

;Inverted phrases