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Old 09-21-2013, 10:21 AM   #792
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Originally Posted by auntykatkat View Post
I understand this. I recently got an audio book that had the narrator give the heroine a Germanic accent. The hero's name is Colin. It sounded like colon throughout the whole thing. Even when others characters were speaking, the narrator pronounced it "colon." It drove me CRAZY!!!

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There's been many times that I've flat out refused to buy a fantasy book just because the made-up names were unpronounceable. I hear the names in my head when I read them, so if I can't pronounce it, that's a dealbreaker for me.
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