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Podcast: Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice
Episode: 0274 – Action Intonators
Description: 2021.10.01 – 0274 – Action IntonatorsI have also read advice to “stress every verb, because they’re action-words”. That is simply wrong! There may be some sense in colouring (not ‘stress’ please!) some action words (as long as they are keys to the sense of the script (see below) such as run, fight, punch, jump and so on. They are certainly ‘action verbs’. But what about other verbs? Sleep, cry, collapse…? Verbs simply do not always express action. So such advice is ‘intonational nonsense’. Audio recordin...