tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post5162367655804543524..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: A Few of my Favourite ThingsCraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-58314873890837943832019-05-09T10:33:13.311+01:002019-05-09T10:33:13.311+01:00"den-dah-ornay-paypoh-avva-bah-oh-ah-geh-dems..."den-dah-ornay-paypoh-avva-bah-oh-ah-geh-demseh-un'stuh" = "Then the ordinary people have a battle to get themselves understood." !!This is actually how a lot of Reality TV characters (mainly from the south of course) speak, no exaggeration. It is influencing speech more generally. Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-55093689870248136532019-05-09T09:50:48.154+01:002019-05-09T09:50:48.154+01:00Awaiting eagerly Adrian and Jo's responses to ...Awaiting eagerly Adrian and Jo's responses to Danny's quite public twitter faux pas. Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11550976834509947355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-87481673221549070862019-05-08T17:26:59.942+01:002019-05-08T17:26:59.942+01:00For those of us who are compelled to transcribe st...For those of us who are compelled to transcribe stuff from radio and TV, the struggle to make sense of sloppy diction cannot be underestimated, irregardless of the context - you could say it's a constant ba-oh. Alex Cullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00138628377297964672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-67051355370063507232019-05-08T16:07:34.210+01:002019-05-08T16:07:34.210+01:00Can you give a translation of that please, MB? I g...Can you give a translation of that please, MB? I gave up halfway into something about having a bath. I think. <br /><br />I am almost a veteran of the pedantic wars and remember long detailed defences online of 'irregardless', which always seemed strange and indefensible to me. I've also had arguments about 'you cannot underestimate the importance of...', pointing out that that means it is of the lowest possible importance, when the writer's intention was to indicate that it was of the highest importance.<br /> Oh, the perils of pedantry. I know that I often make mistakes or am ignorant of some fine point of grammar or meaning. One of the perils - of making a howler while correcting someone else's - has a name, Stitt's Law, if I recall correctly from my war days. It's all about ten or fifteen years ago.<br /><br />I often wonder these days why people can't pronounce anything and when did all this 'a ant' and 'an school', and contriBUTE start. MPs and Ministers who went to Oxford cannot pronounce 'recognise'; there is no word 'reckonise', Foreign Secretary and others. I heard a BBC newsreader saying 'CereMOANY'; one on Sky the other day that a king had been 'coronated'. Another said 'when inflation raises' for 'rises'. And the same one came out with 'rheTORic'.<br /><br />I come out in a rash when they start talking about that WikiLeaks man in the embassy. Why? The affected AssAWNge pronunciation. I can't help but think of what Kenneth Williams could make of it but listen, numpties, it's not French so give it up.He's Australian and I've yet to hear an Australian going AsSAWnge. It's AsSANge, Angie. And don't get me started on prepositions. What happened to them all, apart from 'of'? 'I am embarrassed of my behaviour'. It serves for nearly every preposition.<br /><br />PS: I have a mug which has 'Hands Off' printed on it and mugs which only come out for builders. Favourite knives, forks and soup spoons abound. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-71101313655705156472019-05-08T14:40:25.762+01:002019-05-08T14:40:25.762+01:00The modern Webster guys mounts a stout defence of ...The modern Webster guys mounts a stout defence of it being a real word...<br /><br />https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/is-irregardless-a-real-word-heh-heh<br /><br />It's going to be a transgender name I predict...<br /><br />Probably Robin. Maybe Carol.Even Evelyn. Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-51338739319220238642019-05-08T13:47:00.029+01:002019-05-08T13:47:00.029+01:00Irregardless is kosher? I thought it was a Bushism...Irregardless is kosher? I thought it was a <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2009/01/the-top-25-bushisms-of-all-time.html" rel="nofollow">Bushism</a> type of word, like ‘misunderestimated.’<br /><br />We haven’t watched the BBC, but Kate Burley has spent the whole morning trying to extract new and interesting ways of speculating about baby Sussex’s name. We did catch a glimpse of the infant, thankfully cradled in the arms of his doting father while his mum staggered out and back in ludicrously high-heeled shoes. The Royals usually bestow several names upon their progeny. I rather like ‘Arthur’, and I hope he gets at least one hip-hop name.<br />suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02693686958796849316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-31338680200109787202019-05-08T12:07:21.740+01:002019-05-08T12:07:21.740+01:00You'll find irregardless in American English. ...You'll find irregardless in American English. It's in Webster's. Also used by Canadians, irregardless of what we think is correct! :) <br /><br />Poor, lazy enunciation is becoming endemic on the BBC. Sometimes, on the radio (when it's often more challenging to ascertain the context), I have real difficulty in identifying some words. Battle becomes "bah-oh", ordinary becomes "or-nay", people becomes "pay-poh", then becomes "den", the becomes "dah". This sort of pronunciation is starting to be heard among allegedly educated people. <br /><br />So you have "den-dah-ornay-paypoh-avva-bah-oh-ah-geh-demseh-un'stuh'". They certainly do in some cases! When you throw in another barrier to communication - meaningless emphasis - comprehension can be nigh on impossible. <br /><br />As for favourite utensils, most definitely. Mugs, spoons, glasses, plates and bowls - for every utensil a prefernce and often too a very limited range of purposes. The bowl that might be perfect for a stir-fry is not what I want my spag bol in... :) I've noticed as well that rationality is not key...Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.com