"Is" and "As"

[Chance1234]

I am just writing the script for a podcast and finding that; one im using these words too much and secondly, they sound horrible when read out too much.

I was wondering whether there was any grammar rules to their usage and alternatives for these words.



Chance,

Filmmaker, gentleman and polla stilo eleous

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Depends on the context they are being used in.

Can you give some examples?

[Cheers]

 

[philhege]

Roget to the rescue!
Invoke the ghost of that Jurassic classic: the thesaurus. It's not yet extinct and may save your scripting bacon.

 

[Chance1234]

philhege, the what ? ;-)

A couple of examples, I dont like the is here

...the CO1U condesor USB Mike which is Manufactured by a company called Samsun....

and a as here

..As my microphone was going to be mainly used for ....

Chance,

Filmmaker, gentleman and polla stilo eleous

 

[KenCunningham]

Perhaps:

the CO1U condensor USB Mike, manufactured by a company called Samsung

and

..Because my microphone was going to be mainly used for ...


Assuming I've got the context right of course.

 

[p5wizard]

how about:

...the CO1U condesor USB Mike, Manufactured by a company called Samsun....

And shouldn't that be a "condenser mike"?

p5

 

[Chance1234]

Im hoping no one picks up my spelling mistakes in my podcast, becasue is probably another word that doesnt sound too good spoken as well.

Chance,

Filmmaker, gentleman and polla stilo eleous

 

[carp]

Right next to Roget, I recommend you place a copy of "The Elements of Style" - a classic written by William Strunk and E.B. White.

 

[Thadeus]

... given that my microphone was going to be mainly used for ....

... since my microphone was going to be mainly used for ....

... in view of the fact that my microphone was mainly used for ....

In that last one I also removed the "was going to be".

I think it would actually be better as the following:
... given that my microphone was mainly intended for ....

I do understand the pitfalls of spoken speech versus written documents. I speak publically about 15 times a year and I am expected to perform perfectly when I do. The good news is that while my grammar is decent, what seems to be most important to my audience is my diction.

~Thadeus

 

[SantaMufasa]

And for those that are writing, rather than speaking, the script, the word is "mic" (short for microphone), not "mike".

Also, Dave (Carp), our company used "The Elements of Style" as a reference until I edited the book using the book's own recommendations. The result looked like a surgery that had gone wrong. Unfortunately, I haven't found a replacement that is any better than "The Elements of Style" besides the proprietary guide that we wrote for in-house use following "the surgery".

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
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[CajunCenturion]

One of more popular standards is The Chicago Manual of Style.


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[donbott]

I would go with 'The Samsung C01U Condenser mike (or mic).

Keep it simple more like your talking to one person over a cuppa rather than addressing a group from a podium.

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[Chance1234]

the reason im not saying the samsung mike, is thats its not! the company is actually called samson , my next line is actually pointing this out and giving the web address.

This is actually proving to be a very interesting excercice, my intial wahay lets go and grab a mic and record a podcast is turning into a lot of work.

Im planning to post the finish cast in the music maker forum on TT so watch this space.



Chance,

Filmmaker, gentleman and polla stilo eleous

 

[gbaughma]

Samson is a mic manufacturer.
Samsung makes TV's.

It's still "mic", short for "microphone". ;-)

Although, when I was doing voice-overs, I had to spell some words (especially the word "for") phonetically....

It's funny... I'd write a script, and read it, and for some reason I couldn't say the word "For". It would come out as "fer". I *read* the word "For". My inner monologue says "For". My lips say "fer".

Unless I write it as "Four". Then I say it fine.

So, when you looked at one of my voiceover scripts, it would say something like "And thank you four listening!"





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[carp]

SantaMufasa -
What a fascinating exercise - applying Strunk/White's rules to Strunk/White! I'll have to start on that soon.
Thanks for the idea!

 

[philhege]

And when you're done, SantaMufasa, throw some passages through Babelfish a couple of times. Talk about your lexical blender....