Well, it's all sysnthesiser dependent as my speakout says it correctly without the dash in there. So I suppose the - will force proper pronunciation in all speech cases. Hey, just knock the punctuation level down to #2 and read a line at a time and listen-up will actually sound like listen up:). On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 08:38:38PM -0400, Ann Parsons wrote: > Hi all, > > Well, Janina, only problem with "listenup" is that instead of hearing > "lissenup", I hear "list-ten-up". Now iffin you're a language lover > like me, and you know that list, is an old form of listen, that's > fine. But speech synthes will say it wrong every time unless we spell > it "lissenup". It might be sorta cute to spell it that way. It's up > to you folks. But "lis ten up" doesn't have the same impact. > > Ann P. -- Make sure your E-mail can be read by everyone! http://www.betips.net/etc/evilmail.html
