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Fast-Talking On Radio And T V
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Listening to programmes are becoming exhausting: presenters and news-readers talk so fast, zooming through full-stops and commas, without stopping, catching a breath in the middle of a sentence.
Whew!
It is no wonder that they mispronounce the simplest of words.
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Manna from Heaven, when John Simpson and Kate Adie -- rare breed indeed! -- speak in a measured manner: one feels invited to listen to them.
(They also have time to choose from our wealth of words to paint the virtual pictures.)
Whew!
It is no wonder that they mispronounce the simplest of words.
.
Manna from Heaven, when John Simpson and Kate Adie -- rare breed indeed! -- speak in a measured manner: one feels invited to listen to them.
(They also have time to choose from our wealth of words to paint the virtual pictures.)
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Georgiesmum - // Yes, Ive noticed Zoe Ball doing this recently too and I remember thinking I havent a clue what she just said. //
It's less the speed with which she talks, but the fact that whatever comes out of Ms Ball's mouth is so uniformly vacuous and pointless, than even the most attention-paying listener has forgotten what she said as soon as each sentence ends, before she sucks in a noisy breath to carry on pouring out the verbal equivalent of pond water.
It's less the speed with which she talks, but the fact that whatever comes out of Ms Ball's mouth is so uniformly vacuous and pointless, than even the most attention-paying listener has forgotten what she said as soon as each sentence ends, before she sucks in a noisy breath to carry on pouring out the verbal equivalent of pond water.
