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Presenters 'speak'
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.They do this because they are all reading from an autoque (a little telly under the camera showing them the script). They slow down as they're talking because thats preferable to a pause for them to 'buffer' the next half sentence in their memory from the scrolling text.
Try it yourself, just read a couple of posts from this site (oh i'm new here btw - hi :) ) and pretend you have to read em to a camera and you have to keep talking and not misread or fowl up whilst you're doing it.. you'll end up reading infront of what you're saying by about half a sentece :)
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who finds certain things about presenter 'speak' annoying!!!
I've noticed the nasal thing..grrrr!, but what really gets me, is the female traffic reporters on the radio, who can't seem to say certain words like, "very" or "really", without doing a sort of croaky thing with their voice, as if to give it a bit of drama or emphasis.
Talking of the weather presenters, about a year ago I noticed that they seemed to forget that snow was actually called snow and kept referring to it as "the white stuff". So blinkin' annoying!!!