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These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer5/25/2023 ![]() I'm finding it so frustrating that I am abandoning this long awaited audiobook and will finish the tale on kindle. I could deal with the strange accents to differentiate the characters, even though I'm sure the nobility of that era spoke in a more refined manner, but the poor French is inexcusable, as it is totally confusing as to the actual meaning of so much of the text, as I am hearing totally different words to those written and spend a lot of the story trying to discern what is actually meant. This mangling of so much of the dialogue and narrative spoils the whole experience. ![]() For example, not only do we have the schoolboy " moossier" for "monsieur" at frequent intervals, but also slips such as " jeune fille" (young girl) which is pronounced as "jaune fille" (yellow girl). But the French pronunciation is appalling. ![]() There are a few English mispronounciations such as "crookEd arm" pronounced as if the poor appendage was strangely distorted rather than crook'd and with a very irritating repetition of "ay" rather than "a". ![]()
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