Speech Impediment

[deste]

Am I being unreasonable to expect radio announcers and newsreaders to not have a speech impediment. Before anyone says anything about equal opportunities etc you wouldn't give someone with no arms a job bricklaying so why do we need to listen to that. I have to switch the news off as it grates so mutch. Egsample, Inverurie sounds as it is spelt becomes Invewoowie.

shall I tell all the worried parents, they will be so relieved

nice to see you have such an understanding of speech language and communication problems.

cute FFS.

The op is clearly fu**ing nuts & rude

Oh I wondered where the April Fools thread was.

I have found it.

Assuming OP is serious, I agree that anybody speaking for informational purposes for wide distribution needs to be comprehensible. Nobody surely would contend that in the interests of equality, people who are manifestly unsuited to a job should be employed in that job. Woe betide us all and our savings if unsuitable people have to employed by law to run banks...

oh remind me to tell my ds its ok you cant talk have speech problems b,ecause some op thinks its cute in children but oh you grow up same problem then your going annoy her

oh shame that the op might have a problem some point hmm mind with attitude like that guess she already has

Of COURSE you will get flamed, deste, for such vile views and quite rightly so!!!!

yabu

The OP is a stupid, prejudiced, bint.

FFS

Yes Duchesse but no-one is arguing that.

From the OPs "egsample" it sounds as if the presenter sounds like Jonathan Ross, and while people might not like him, you can't really argue he's incomprehensible.

YABVU, fuck off back to your own wee planet!

'as a child it can be quite cute'

I'm usually known for being (or trying to be) reasonable

However

Please find a sharp inplement and fuck yourself

Thanks

I shall have to remember that my autistic ds3 is "cute" when he takes two minutes to stammer out a simple sentence of less than 10 words.

It's debilitating and upsetting for him but the fact he tries to communicate at all is to be applauded, not referred to as cute.

TWAT.

What Peachy said.

I'm pretty sure my parents didn't think my brothers' speech impediments were cute when they were told by the HV they had to have speech therapy.

What a nasty OP.

Fucking bigoted bitch

I used to have a stammer myself, but it returns from time to time when I am especially stressed. It was quite pronounced when I was a child, I just felt upset about it, I can't remember being "cute" because of it

Of course Riven you didn't mean that disabled kids arent sute just that their disabilities dont make them so

AS you have met my very very cute DS3 I shall want words if you did mean that!!!

I think the OP was some sort of sick April Fool joke that went a bit out of hand

At least, I hope it was

Actually I think most people are wildly overreacting here. Surely it depends how serious the impediment is?

If it is just a slight peculiarity, like not being able to sound 'r's or something, then what the hell - no we don't want to go back to the days when only received pronunciation was heard on the air. And if you can still tell what they are saying without really having to struggle with it then no reason why they shouldn't have the job IMO

OTOH if it is so serious as to the render them largely incomprehensible to the majority of listeners then surely, yes, they are in the wrong job. In that case I think the bricklayer analogy is fairly accurate.

5foot5 the example the OP gave was that the presenter is not able to sound "r"s

But without actually hearing for yourself you don't know whether that is the full extent and to what degree it made them difficult to understand.