Good communication

listening to the world service with correspondents from around the world.

Each one trying to explain difficult subjects clearly but with their country accents.

I listened to what they had to say.

Then came the reporter from the Post in America. Her murder of the English language was brutal, The words were slurred, mumbled, and vowels flat. Her lazy mouth unable yo annunciate properly. Does it matter?

As a listener I had to concentrate on what she was saying like I was hearing a foreign language. My concentration slipped to noting the murder of her words, the context of what she was saying not so important.

My impression of the interview was , she could not be bothered what I thought. She would speak as she wanted to, and I would have to put up and shut up. This in a nutshell is the American attitude. America first, the only country that matters, you will have to take it and shut up.


Sadly I found myself listening to the Russian correspondent and the Chinese contributor more. It was a bit like an Essex barrow boy speaking on behalf of the Scottish Government !