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Speech Impediment

59 replies

deste · 01/04/2009 17:31

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.

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Shambolic · 02/04/2009 13:53

I very much doubt that any radio station would hire a newsreader who was unintelligible.

And the example the OP gave was they couldn't do "r"s properly.

I wonder if it was an April fool about "Wossie" that went horribly wrong...

madwomanintheattic · 02/04/2009 13:55

see, i immediately thought wossie, but when the op popped back for a second go, i lost faith in the april fool explanation and went for bigot like everyone else...

Shambolic · 02/04/2009 13:56

True madwoman very true.

What a nuts OP...

MorningTownRide · 02/04/2009 13:57

deste is a teste

Shambolic · 02/04/2009 14:01

V good

Deste is a pest...

(I prefer the traditional pronunciation!)

redsock · 02/04/2009 14:17

Oh my god, I have never seen such a bad response.(go fuck yourself you bigoted bitch????)

I kind of agree with the OP.

There is a radio presenter on KEY103 called Justin Moorhouse. He sounds like an overweight asthmatic with laryngitis.

And I cannot BEAR to listen to it. Someone with a voice like that is not well equipped for the job. The analogy of armless brickie was poor. However if you were served in a restaurant by a waiter who had a physical problem that meant it took him 10 minutes to get to your table by which time your food was cold, well it would be a problem.

Shambolic · 02/04/2009 14:22

People must listen to him though redsock otherwise he would be out of a job.

So he hasn't got a voice that gets on everyone's tits.

Some people on the TV get on my nerves and some I outright can't stand. I don't think they should be sacked, I simply don't watch them.

katiestar · 02/04/2009 18:09

YANBU
I think for a newsreaders voice to be impediment-free really is a no-brainer.I don't think you can really dress this up as being discriminatory

chegirl · 02/04/2009 18:27

It wasnt that long ago that you had to speak in BBC English to be on TV or Radio. That mean NO regional accents at all. No foreign accents. No working class diction. JUST RP.

We have managed to cope with the changes made. Despite dire warnings that allowing those with regional accents on Blue Peter was 'simply the thin end of the wedge'.

So why can we not 'get used to' people with speech differences. Once you get used to the way someone talks you begin to understand them. It is v.v.v. unlikely that anyone with severe difficulties would be on radio anyway. I say MORE people with differences. FFS what about the morons we have to listen to every day on R1 etc. They have nothing 'wrong' with them but they drive me bonkers just the same.

More people with facial differences on tv as well please.

But can we get rid of some of the identikit underweight over tanned no talent bimbos though?

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