2022.01.30 – 0395 – When We Pause
When we use a pause
Not all pauses are created equal. We use them to help both the reader and the listener in many different ways.
Pauses – together with intonation - aid understanding
Pauses should be at speech-natural places within a script, rather than appearing at random within it. But you don’t pause at every comma or after every phrase. The commas are there in the main to help you and not to dictate to you and to break whenever you reach one will give you a stop-start, choppy delivery.
And of course, a comma doesn’t indicate the length of a pause. Some reads require a millisecond, others a full beat.
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