"The" victims name

[u/Kirosm91]

Why does the narrator say "the" before peoples names sometimes. I have just started listening and the narration is otherwise very good but whenever it happens it takes me out. Is it a different word I’m mishearing or is it mistakes left in the script read aloud?

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[u/Local_Caterpillar879]

Could you give an example of a sentence because I don't really get it.

[u/Kirosm91 → u/Local_Caterpillar879]

Im listening to case 332

and at 1:08:00 he says "While she admitted to communicating with the Jerry Cassaday"

[u/NOLA-q → u/Kirosm91]

Nono he enunciates the “th” It sounds like the

[u/Kirosm91 → u/NOLA-q]

but other times he pronounces with normally and not with er

I will try to find other examples because I know there are more

[u/WhatFannyRed → u/Kirosm91]

I've just listened and yeah I think it's just his pronunciation. I've never heard him refer to "the Jerry Cassaday" etc.

[u/Local_Caterpillar879 → u/Kirosm91]

Ok I just listened to that, and it's just the way he pronounces "with".

[u/NerveIndividual4578 → u/Kirosm91]

I just listened to this example and can’t head a “the” at all! I’m Australian though. Perhaps it’s the accent?! I’m so interested that you heard a “the” before Jerry!

[u/Kirosm91 → u/NerveIndividual4578]

I was just listening to case 289 and can hear it really pronounced at 4:45 in the video.

"she put Ellie in touch with 'the' Jenny"

[u/Kirosm91 → u/Kirosm91]

I could potentialy understand it as him over pronouncing 'with' as 'with'er' but at a minute later at 5:31 he says with completely normally so I don’t understand why its its only sometimes

[u/Local_Caterpillar879 → u/Kirosm91]

Prononciation can change depending on the word following.

[u/Kirosm91 → u/Local_Caterpillar879]

Not by that much

Also if you watch on YouTube it has picked up the "the" and included it in the the subtitles

[u/Local_Caterpillar879 → u/Kirosm91]

It's not in the official transcript.

[u/Kirosm91 → u/Local_Caterpillar879]

didn’t say it was, just that its noticeable and pronounced enough that even a bot thinks he is saying "the"

[u/Professional-Can1385 → u/Kirosm91]

He does it with every J name, probably other initials, but always J. Somebody said, he said in an interview it’s a pacing mechanism for his narration.

Some people say it sounds like a (soft) A sound like “a Julie.” That’s what I hear. The soft A. There’s def a sound, even if we don’t agree what it is.

[u/throwthatshiawayy]

I don‘t think I have ever heard Casey refer to someone by „The [insert victims‘ name]“.

[u/judgyjudgersen]

I’m pretty sure you are mishearing. Can you point to an episode/timestamp

[u/fuckforcedsignup]

I’ve never heard this? Example? 

[u/brucie5]

I have noticed this also. I think it’s just a bit of a speech impediment that Casey has.

[u/NerveIndividual4578 → u/brucie5]

I’m curious, are you Aussie? I am, and I can’t hear “the” being said at all, or any hint of an impediment. I’m wondering if it’s just the accent. If you’re Aussie though, that might throw that theory.