Have you ever noticed how the syllable 'uh' has infested our language like a plague of cockroaches? No?And I'm not talking about disfluencies and discourse markers that let your listener know you're not having a stroke, but just having some 'temporary', little trouble dragging out and uttering the least non-specific word in your pathetic vocabulary.
No. I'm talking about the replacement of vowels that are just a tad more difficult to properly enunciate by today's boorish speakers of Americanish, exemplified by those icons of influence: 21st century television and radio presenters (and their swarming devotees).
Let's have fun and look at some examples of your commonly-heard, Americanish speech atrophia:
Tuh-day, Tuh-morrow, Uh-mediately
Uh-conomy, Uh-fficient, Uh-fecctive
Buh-fore, Puh-lite, Buh-low
Uh-ran, Uh-raq
That is so Uh-mazing, yes? Shall we not have some more fun and try to pronounce the actual vowels?
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