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Is 'made strange voices' OK?

 
 
Reply Sun 14 Aug, 2016 09:58 am
The child suffered from panic disorders, made strange voices, and hurt herself and the people around her.

Is the part in bold OK? I believe that made should be replaced by uttered? Am I correct?

Thanks.
 
chai2
 
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Reply Sun 14 Aug, 2016 11:07 am
@tanguatlay,
I'd say "made strange vocalizations"

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dalehileman
 
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Reply Sun 14 Aug, 2016 11:32 am
@tanguatlay,
I'd vote for "voices"

Of course "sounds" or even "utterings" might do
Chai's seems a bit awkward, maybe 2 long

Forgive
chai2
 
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Reply Sun 14 Aug, 2016 12:24 pm
@dalehileman,
But people don't "make voices".

They hear voices.

They make sounds, vocalizations.

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PUNKEY
 
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Reply Sun 14 Aug, 2016 10:49 pm
Made strange noises

Used strange voices
tanguatlay
 
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Reply Sun 14 Aug, 2016 11:22 pm
@PUNKEY,
I suddenly thought of utter strange sounds.

Is it OK?
roger
 
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Reply Sun 14 Aug, 2016 11:24 pm
@tanguatlay,
It is, but for general conversation, I think I prefer Punkey's suggestion.
tanguatlay
 
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Reply Sun 14 Aug, 2016 11:40 pm
@roger,
roger wrote:

It is, but for general conversation, I think I prefer Punkey's suggestion.
But it is not for general discussion. It is used in a religious testimony.
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roger
 
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Reply Mon 15 Aug, 2016 12:04 am
Aha!

In some churches here, they 'speak in tongues'.
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MontereyJack
 
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Reply Mon 15 Aug, 2016 12:33 am
I was readling along in the thread and five or six posts in I began thinking "speak in tongues" and got to the last one, and, dang, Roger beat me to it, you are the devil, Roger (or is that Hillary Clinton, according to that tool of Satan, Donald Trump).
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Finn dAbuzz
 
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Reply Tue 16 Aug, 2016 01:57 pm
@tanguatlay,
It depends upon the format in which you are using it.

There are no hard and fast rules in fiction. Authors play with language all of the time. Having said that, this doesn't seem to be one of those cases.

If this is a sentence from a expository piece, the phrase doesn't work.

It is not common to say people "make" voices (of any kind)

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