I had to take liberties again in this episode, because I have no idea how to translate \u201c\u2026\u201d into audio. Which is unfortunate, because I LOVE \u201c\u2026\u201d in text.<\/p>\n
I could be wrong, but as far as I know using \u201c\u2026\u201d as dialog was first introduced in JRPG imports such as the Final Fantasy series. It\u2019s perfect, because anyone who reads a lot knows exactly the emotion that it conveys. The only problem is that it isn\u2019t a word, it\u2019s punctuation. \u00a0And as a narrator, you aren\u2019t allowed to read punctuation. It sounds stupid. No one says \u201cexclamation point!\u201d, and no one should say \u201cellipses\u201d or (if ya ain\u2019t as high-falutin\u2019) \u201cdot dot dot\u201d. In Chapter 20 I just left a long pause. But that wasn\u2019t an option here, as it was both explicit dialog, and quoted in the response<\/em>.<\/p>\n So I made do with a narrative description that I hope best captured what \u201c\u2026\u201d was implying in this particular case. It\u2019s inelegant, but I couldn\u2019t think of a better option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had to take liberties again in this episode, because I have no idea how to translate \u201c\u2026\u201d into audio. Which is unfortunate, because I LOVE \u201c\u2026\u201d in text. I could be wrong, but as far as I know using \u201c\u2026\u201d as dialog was first introduced in JRPG imports such\u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1570,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions\/1570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}