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coloraday  +  957103 Fri, 30 Oct 09 10:58 AM
Please help me with this one.

Thanks 

 

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coloraday  +  957111 Fri, 30 Oct 09 11:11 AM
The Second

Yankee  +  957328 Fri, 30 Oct 09 05:08 PM
This is what I hear for the first one:


- Might have been a failing of mine, (to tend) to talk down to, 'cause I'd known him as a younger kid.


I'm not sure about the part in parentheses, but that's what it sounds like to me.


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And this is what I hear for the second one:


- And somewhere, it might be around...it's in Liverpool, that record, that's the actual first recording we ever made.


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Kooyeen  +  957558 Fri, 30 Oct 09 10:10 PM
I don't know why, but some words sound different to my ear:


And somewhere, [they / it] might be around... it's in Liverpool, [some of / somewhere] that record, that's the actual first recording they ever made.


And I keep hearing two things at the same time (they/it). I wonder what percepion problem that is.

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Yankee  +  957649 Sat, 31 Oct 09 12:27 AM
Kooyeen
“And somewhere, [they / it] might be around... it's in Liverpool, [some of / somewhere] that record, that's the actual first recording they ever made.”
I'd agree with you about the words I highlighted in blue, Kooyeen.

Kooyeen  +  957980 Sat, 31 Oct 09 11:27 AM
Yay! I got something right, lol.

But I guess you "guess", right? I mean, I would choose the words in blue too, because they are the ones that are more likely to make sense in that context (it, somewhere). But when I listen closely, I can hear no w-sound in the blue "somewhere", and it actually sounds more like "some of" to me. And in "it/they might be around", I think I am able to hear both it and a quick they. Maybe it's because the it starts with a kind of glide and a change of speed, eit might be around. Can anyone else imagine a "they" there, forgetting about the context?

I'm interested in this kind of perception phenomenon, and I will definitely post some tricky audio clips soon to test "my theories", lol.

coloraday  +  958234 Sat, 31 Oct 09 05:30 PM
Thank you very much Amy.You always help me

Yankee
“- And somewhere, it might be around...it's in Liverpool, I hear something here that record, that's the actual first recording we ever made.
.

Right? 

 

coloraday  +  958240 Sat, 31 Oct 09 05:39 PM
coloraday
“Thank you very much Amy.You always help me

 

Yankee
“- And somewhere, it might be around...it's in Liverpool, I hear something here that record, that's the actual first recording we ever made.
.

Right?

 

Oh,I didn't read your discussion about that.So it's somewhere.

And also Thank you Kooyeen . 

Yankee  +  958522 Sun, 01 Nov 09 01:53 AM
Hi Coloraday


I heard something in that spot the first time I listened, but forgot to include it when I posted my first response. I was in a hurry -- I don't have much free time at the moment -- so that was a careless omission on my part.

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