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Hi everyone. Even though English is not my mother tongue, I find transcribing English videos, movies ( subtitles ), songs ( lyrics ) and so on very satisfying and challenging. However, some of the times I fail to understand some of the sentences and therefore I'm not able to fully ... understand it ( most of the times it is a problem when I try to translate it - I'm rather thorough ). I was trying to find a good place for such questions for quite a long time already. Recently I got an idea of asking it here - on forums directly dedicated to English. I shyly ask, if that's an option here? Like, posting a small piece of audio and asking for a little help with a transcription process?

Cheers, Tom

Clive · Accepted Answer

Hi Tom,

Yes, that's fine. We'll be hapy to try to help.

You will get more replies if you avoid posting long items.

It's also helpful if for video you say eg I can't understand the part from 1:25 to 1:55.

Anyway, let's give it a try!

Clive

Quagmind · Answer

Thank you for the kind words. I've uploaded the first piece here:

http://soundcloud.com/quagmind/p1/s-rs9EV

Two cups are having a discussion about the recent action - they talk about what to do with a guy they caught.

I need word-in-word transcription for this one. I know the context of a discussion, but I'm missing the parts of the sentences. Here's what I am missing ( in brackets ):

- (Say?) Baker, that (call it inch?) the possible female victim. Do you remember any woman back there?

- Nah, if there was a victim (of some?) Mac (???) we would('ve?) seen 'im.

- Yeah, I guess. What do we do with a laughing boy?

- I don't know, we can hold 'im (in?) There was no assault victim, no muggers, no little blue man, nothin'.

- So, we (run him in?) for a (lawyering?) as usual.

Of course, any corrections of the parts I already have are welcomed. And one more thing: is a "little blue man" an idiom of some sort, or might it be the part of a plot?

Tom

Clive · Answer

Hi,

Two cups are having a discussion about the recent action - they talk about what to do with a guy they caught.

I need word-in-word transcription for this one. I know the context of a discussion, but I'm missing the parts of the sentences. Here's what I am missing ( in brackets ):

- (Say?) Baker, the call mentioned a possible female victim. Do you remember any women back there?

- Nah, if there was a victim (of some?) Mac (???) we would('ve?) seen 'im. << I couldn't hear this clearly

- Yeah, I guess. What do we do with laughing boy?

- I don't know, we can hold him on. There wasn't no assault victim, no muggers, no little blue men, nothin'.

- So, we (run him in? Yes, charge him with an offence) for (the offence of) loitering, as usual.

Of course, any corrections of the parts I already have are welcomed. And one more thing: is a "little blue man" an idiom of some sort, or might it be the part of a plot? No. The speaker means that a crazy guy might say he is seeing little blue men. But that was not the case here. The guy didn't seem crazy.

This listening and transcibing takes a lot of time. I may do another, I may not.

Try to keep them short.

Clive

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