Gregory's ServerI am currently trying to transcribe a series of interviews I did at #solpunk and have a few observations that I find quite interesting:
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 @vanderZwan I would love to see such a thing. I am having enough trouble just getting the whole thing written down in plain next so the idea of making it more complex sounds daunting. btw you were in the #solpunk signal group right? you were gonna go but didn't make it, what happened?  @liaizon this is one thing that people who have not worked with language often don't really get: language, as it is spoken in reality, does not meaningfully care about grammar. it's actually amazing. @halcy it actually makes me want to try to having come conversations with different sorts of folks and try transcribing them exactly as they are spoken and then look into what the patterns really are. I am sure there are lots of papers about this but it would be interesting to see how much it varies @liaizon Years ago I transcribed a director talking about his film. Since this was part of the promotional materials, I cleaned up all the false starts, random sounds, and fixed the grammar. The director came back furious that I'd changed what he said, because every single word out of his mouth was a treasure, so I re-transcribed it accurately with all that stuff back in, including random sounds and the grammar that's just a mess when its written down. They ended up not using any of it. |
the amount of times people start and stop and edit their sentences mid sentence that we subconsciously adjust to understanding is quite incredible. I was there doing the interviews and I had no idea how many times both me and the interviewee would restate or restart the same sentence or repronounce a word etc