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Nina ( picturetalk321 ) is 8% done

Also I note the narrator is laboriously accent-pronouncing all non-English words and names except for the German ones. @-@ Humboldt (he rhymes it with slumbolt). And yes, we know how hard it is for Anglophones to pronounce Kant (to rhyme with cunt) but either anglicise all or anglicise none.

— Feb 19, 2025 12:39AM

Not So Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics

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Nina ( picturetalk321 ) is 59% done

The narrator's voice is so irritating and the content not compelling enough to make me put up with it (unlike Empireworld) so may soon DNF.

— Mar 13, 2025 09:11AM

Nina ( picturetalk321 ) is 59% done

"grieveously" damaged (my eye roll is enormeous)

— Feb 25, 2025 11:41AM

Nina ( picturetalk321 ) is 35% done

chafe pron. as chaff. exalt pron. as exult.

— Feb 22, 2025 05:31AM

Nina ( picturetalk321 ) is 35% done

He has now pronounced philosopher Hannah Arendt's surname three ways: Ah-rent (with emphasis on first syllable; unexpectedly correct); Urr-rent (with emphasis on second syllable; incorrect) and Urrunt (I can't even).

— Feb 22, 2025 05:22AM

Nina ( picturetalk321 ) is 35% done

— Feb 22, 2025 05:18AM

Nina ( picturetalk321 ) is 29% done

The city of Nancy. He pronounces it like Nancy Drew but a few pages later pronounces it to rhyme with Nonnsay. whyyy

— Feb 22, 2025 05:18AM

Nina ( picturetalk321 ) is 29% done

And now the narrator is pronouncing WEB DuBois to rhyme with DuMwah (whereas numerous instances exist where DuBois himself kept stressing it rhymes with DuVoice, and this for him was a political point!) argh

— Feb 22, 2025 02:52AM

Nina ( picturetalk321 ) is 29% done

possessing pronounced with a hard s on the first ss?

— Feb 22, 2025 02:43AM

Nina ( picturetalk321 ) is 18% done

Huxley, Darwin's pulldore?? what word is he trying to pronounce?

— Feb 21, 2025 12:22AM

Nina ( picturetalk321 ) is 18% done

Volk ≠ vollk but ≠ follk.

— Feb 21, 2025 12:04AM