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DrEntropy

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I know I can phracture a phrase about as well as anyone, but(!):

While watchin' a program on NGS channel about plate tectonics the voice-over guy pronounces an "in" prefix word as "eeen"...

...another one does a bit explaining WW-I air battles and refers to the Armistice as "The arm ISS-tiss".

There are many other "fluffs" lately. Where do these guys COME from?!?! Is Columbia School of Broadcasting still in business?

I wanna do voice-overs.

sheesh.
 
Aieeee!!!! I know EXACTLY what you mean. The DC NPR station is the worst. I think they all lisp, and the lazy word pronunciation drives me nuts.When speaking about the CEO of the US it sounds like Puursident. JUST SPEAK ENGLISH!!!! That is all I ask. I think it is getting worse, as I notice it all the time, and I am just as grumpy about it as ever...
 
a couple of my favorite peeves :nonono:

the manner in which <span style="font-weight: bold">"business"</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold">"wasn't"</span> are pronounced - seems regional south US - not sure.

business come across as <span style="font-weight: bold">BID NESS</span>

wasn't sounds like <span style="font-weight: bold">WHAT ENT</span>

The local new the other night was reporting vandalism in a certain neighborhood and said, <span style="font-weight: bold">"all of the car windows were busted"</span>

We live in a country where proper diction and the articulation of an intelligent sentence seem to attract ridicule.

No. It's not just you. :confuse:
 
I grew up in western PA. Our dear departed mother was a real taskmaster about a few things. One was that we would NOT emulate the colloquial "Pittsburghese" (Valley) accent... said it sounded as if they were talking with a mouth full of feces (she used a different descriptor). And if she heard the "lazy T's" slipping into use it was dealt with decisively. I hated "English" but am continually fascinated with "language".
 
Your lucky Doc! We have some people around here that can not pronounce those words that well!
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Steve said:
You can always check out the BBC....... :wink:
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INDEED!

But only a matter of time before even they succumb...
 
I guess my expectations of the human race are not that high, As long as I can grasp the gist of a conversation. If in doubt as to what a paticular grunt may mean I am inclined to say HUH Or say again or maybe even please explain. Understanding of course that one expects any public speaker to be audiable and well spoken so as the listner can assertain the value of the context of what is being said if so inclined.
What bothers me more than improper annunciation of any particular word or phrase is the blathering on and on about any particular subject of which is mere speculation, inuendo, propaganda, disinformation or spun to suit ones own adjenda about any given subject.
In other words if one can not back up what they say with pure unadulterated facts I do not want to hear it.

Life is too short to let ones self be irritated by much. {I am working on about life 6 now, I should know.}

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I have had at least six events in my lifetime that could have very easily sent me to the promised land.
IE. Do not sweat the small stuff!
 
Having grown up with the BBC I must agree! Though they do, at least, set a higher standard than most!
The ones that really get me, for example, are like responses in an interview to "How are you?"..."I'm good" or "I'm great"...my question was NOT "WHAT are you?" :crazy:
 
Excellent points, Kerry.

However, people entrusted with delivering the news should be easily understood and should follow the rules of the language.

Our problem is that the rules are changing, like everything else these days, more rapidly than many of us can keep up with.

Not sweating the small stuff is good philosophy, but unless we're all on the same page, there's bound to be more "Huh?", as you put it, and less "Oh, I see."

(Germane to the point is my childhood nickname, given me by my sisters, due to my always correcting them: "Professor"!)
 
Would be nice if there was a safe way to build a spread sheet with user names and e mail addresses and real names.
 
:lol:

...somehow I can see that...

Professor. :wink:
 
Yeah, I wasn't always as "charming" as I am now...
 
...and you talk funny, too. :devilgrin:

But seriously:
It's not so much colloquialism as just plain mispronunciation that gets me. My 'accent' is flat midwestern. Mickey's is N.O. pure. Yet we can have a perfectly fine (well... mostly :wink: ) conversation over the 'phone. Same with Steve 'n me.

It's the lack of knowing what the so-called "professionals" are actually SAYING that kicks my "HUH?!?" button.
 
By the way, the possesive is its, not it's.

<span style="color: #FF0000"> <span style="font-size: 26pt"> GET IT RIGHT </span> </span> ,fer cryin' out loud!!!
 
I think he was putting the 2 words "it" an "is" together. Therefore, the new word as a contraction is it's :laugh:
 
DNK said:
I think he was putting the 2 words "it" an "is" together. Therefore, the new word as a contraction is it's :laugh:
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Wasn't referring to Doc's post. (Didn't notice that sentence!) Just a general comment about the possessive. Drives me nuts!

(But then, I don't have far to go to get there!)
 
Mickey Richaud said:
Drives me nuts!
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Yeah, imperative sentences drive me nuts, too! :thumbsup:
 
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