–I looked up the daily newspaper in Jamaica to see how the approaching hurricane was being covered from the scene. At first I thought I was reading an Onion parody, but no, it was real. Maybe there’s some sort of movement for phonetic authenticity going on there that I don’t know about. Who knew dialect was still being rendered this way in 2007?
–The only TV news we can stand to watch regularly in our house is the BBC World News, despite that ridiculous shiny red set that looks like a South Jersey diner, that thumping techno music that would be more at home in a Bulgarian nightclub, and those male news-readers who affect weird British speech patterns that make them sound like Elmer Fudds who have passed their A-levels. (I keep hoping there’ll be riots in Kuala Lumpur just to listen to these guys try to say the words).
But I digress. This is about the coal-mine disaster in Utah. Why do the American media keep parroting the term used by the coal-mine owners, who insist that disaster is the result of “seismic shifts.” The BBC, to its credit, calls it what it is: A cave-in.
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August 24th, 2007 at 9:54 am
Love it, why not. Better than santized press. Gives you some real flavor of the Island. Hope to visit some day.