Zola-Ink-Spots

Monday, August 13, 2007

FIRST IMPRESSIONS RECORDED
Trip to UK.
From aeroplanes through to airports I failed to understand the English language announcements. All sounded strange to me. It seemed like many large concerns employed "speakers" that could not speak clearly.
Result = few listened.

I was so fed up with this towards the end that I was beaten into rage. I firmly asked one check-in supervisor : " What the fuck are you talking about", as I struggled to make sense of even the 50% that I managed to semi-understand.

There was me thinking that the UK was serious about safety messages.
Oh well, just goes to show.....

11 comments:

Anonymous said...: Dear Zola-Ink-Spots we really must buy you a multi-cultural hearing aid.; 15:20
zola a social thing said...: Herra Anonemail : Sorry to disagree as I know the UK fears disagreements today. But most babble was from UK people.
One excellent beef curry dish was served with an equally excellent and clear conversation.
One old mate said to me that my UK was dead a long time ago.
It is not a hearing aid that I miss.; 16:21
anticant said...: You're so right! They gabble. They do it over loudspeakers and on recorded telephone messages - especially when they are giving out telephone numbers they expect you to call back. I sometimes have to listen to these incomprehensible spiels several times in order to decipher them, and then usually wonder why I bothered.

Also, they have no idea about elocution. They alternately shout, whisper [sometimes hiss!], and raise and lower the pitch and emphasis of their voices at random without any regard to the meaning of what they are saying.

It certainly isn't a 'multicultural' thing - there is scarcely anybody under 40 left who makes the slightest attempt to 'speak proper': even Bliar used to affect "Estuary English" to appear 'one of the boys'. Recorded messages from people on the Indian subcontinent who obviously haven't been within a thousand miles of these hallowed shores certainly don't help, though!

Personally, I would oblige all these confounded businesses and services who employ these cretins to staff their phone lines with live human beings who have been properly trained how to speak. Some hope....

Thanks, dear Zola for providing a hook for this long-festering rant.; 16:52
zola a social thing said...: Calm down anticant you will get me a bad name.; 18:10
zola a social thing said...: Who would be bestest speaker?

LavenderBlue? No never she always protests at coming clean orally.

Merkin? No never still on politics and transparent hoots mon.

Anticant? He would fall asleep after half and hour. Count in out too.

Chris White? Who is he today in the fray?

BUt we have one goodie left of centre who still speaks well and clearly.
TROUSERS!!!!
It is Trousers that must find himself through announcements in the UK. Do im good it would. Write his novel, then, he would.
Vote for Trousers I say.; 18:23
Anonymous said...: No canned announcements or muzak in the Burrow.

By Order; 20:37
Merkin said...: Well Zola, I could do all the Polish announcements.
Then all the Polish workers here would not understand any better than you.
Good idea?; 21:30
Anonymous said...: Well zola, thank goodness I'm still left of centre..; 00:46
Merkin said...: Dresses to the left of centre?
Ooooooh.; 02:02
Anonymous said...: I thought the Polaks were still busy gathering strawberries.....; 20:47
zola a social thing said...: Certainly not into Blue Berets.; 15:42

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