Say It With Me

15 Replies to “Say It With Me”

1. Don’t know who he’s f*ckin’ talkin’ about … or should that be whom?

2. BLM is runnin’ tings.. Ebonics to replace English as first world language.

   1. No mofo axe ME ’bout dis…!!!

3. It’s a real gon’ show

4. Americans not only pronounce it wrong when they keep knives and forks in a “draw” but they now spell it wrong as well. And don’t get me going on ruff’s.

5. Heh, the American President no. 44 was known for sayin’ “I’m gonna”. Great role model.

6. Complete nonsense. All languages change to some degree with every generation.

   1. If you use h when you say strong how do say sit?

7. Bad elocution pales in comparison with poor execution via the deluded perfect the enemy of the good collectivist cabal.

8. If one is a public presenter, then speak properly or go back to one’s cave.

9. I am learning Spanish – South American Spanish. The language in Spain is full of “lisping” all because the Hapsburg Dynasty had a genetic deformity of their mouths and chins and could only “lisp”. My professor is very insistent on correct pronunciation.
   It is like Professor Henry Higgins – why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?

   1. Although my own (attempts at Spanish) are akin to “Que Pasa, Baby?” I have been told, (whilst there on a number of occasions), that Castilian Spanish is but one of a variety of ‘dialects’.

      As for England….most of them are unintelligible.

10. fer instead of for hear it all the time

11. Are Doug and DJ here? I tried to talk with them using the Queen’s English a few days ago and I was accused of using bad grammar and being on drugs.

12. I sent the following to a Program Director of Connecticut’s largest AM radio broadcaster on July 16, 2021:

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    I’m a longtime (60+ years) WTIC-AM listener and rapidly becoming a former listener. Here are a few reasons why:

    1) After listening to Tom Shattuck today constantly either interrupting or insistently talking over callers, I turned off the radio in disgust. Though I begrudgingly can put up with his unsettling rate of speech and apparent inability, or unwillingness to vary it, I cannot and will not accept his interrupting or talking over callers. It’s impolite in person. It’s also impolite on air.

    2) Several of your news and/or weather folks seem to be unaware of the fact that the word “temperature” is a four syllable word. Hint: it ain’t “tempichur” or “tempachur”, y’all.

    3) Ditto above regarding the all important station identification: “W” is pronounced “double U” and not “dub U”, “dubba U”, or “dubya”.

    4) Ditto above regarding the pronunciation of “hundred.” It’s not “hunert” or “hunerd”.

    There was a time when airchecks were used for review and critique for the improvement of on air talent. It appears those days are long gone – at least at WTIC-AM.

    Study, or at least review, of the various sections under “Delivering Your Speech” at https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wm-publicspeaking/ would go a long way towards improving the waning quality of on air staff WTIC-AM once rightfully touted.

    Win me back.

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    To date, *crickets* has been the non-reply.

    Next step is to email folks higher up the ladder and hopefully a cage or two will get rattled.