Poor diction by radio presenters

Brendan Bendar

gourcuff wrote: »

its because there are so many culchies dominating Irish media and broadcasting, there are far more regional accents in Irish media than the UK where it all sounds quite home counties...

A quick list from a reddit thread...

Sarah Mcinerney
Claire Byrne
Oliver Callan
Seán Moncrieff
Ray D’Arcy
John Creedon
John Kelly
Mary Wilson
Colette Browne
Rachael English
Cormac Ó hEadhra
Darren Frehill

Matt Cooper
Ivan Yates
Jonathan Healy
Kieran Cuddihy
Shane Coleman
Andrea Gilligan
Richard Chambers
Siofra Mulqueen

Dara O’Brian
Tommy Tiernan
Damien Lawlor

Nathan Murphy
Joe Molloy

Ciaran Murphy
Billy Joe Padden
Kieran Cunningham
Ger Gilroy
Eoin Sheehan
Colm Parkinson

Michael Lyster
Sean O’Rourke
Mark Tighe
Brendan O’Connor
Aisling Bea
Sharon Horgan

wall to wall culchies out there...

Not worth a bag of oven baked goat shït unless you tell us where they go wrong, compadre.

At least none of them have won the ‘Lottho’ as the auld Doobs call it.

How come they have such a problem with the letter ‘t’

Me dotther needs to know.......

NIMAN

Dee Molumby just invented a totally new way of saying a word on The Last Words film review, very much in the mould of how so many people now pronounce "gen u ine lay".


She was saying posthumously but she pronounced it "post humour os ly".

walshb

Paddyed wrote: »

I love the radio. Generally switch between Newstalk, Radio One and Today FM. However the general standard of proper pronunciation and grammar can be jaw droppingly bad. I just listened to "Sahurday" Matt Cooper hatcheting his t/h words before passing over to Ian Guider who along with murdering his t/h's, also pronounces many words beginning with t/h as "v". Vis means vat ve turty tree teatres vat are located... Its astounding and shocking that a national broadcaster doesn't insist on minimum standards for its presenters.

Jaysus, Paddy. Any chance you could have another stab at this...😌

jojofizzio

blackbox wrote: »

When Matt Cooper talks about someone having a sore "troath" it is nothing to do with a regional accent.

...or having no "thread" on their tyres.

His diction is appalling for someone broadcasting regularly on a national radio station

Declan A Walsh

walshb wrote: »

Jaysus, Paddy. Any chance you could have another stab at this...😌

You are replying to the first post back in September 2019 and to a user who has only posted three times! :rolleyes:

HildaOgdenx

jojofizzio wrote: »

His diction is appalling for someone broadcasting regularly on a national radio station

Agreed.
Had to give up listening to him years ago.
Sah-erday and noooze are two that I particularly remember.

walshb

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

You are replying to the first post back in September 2019 and to a user who has only posted three times! :rolleyes:

Thanks for the heads up!!!

plodder

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Not worth a bag of oven baked goat shït unless you tell us where they go wrong, compadre.

At least none of them have won the ‘Lottho’ as the auld Doobs call it.

How come they have such a problem with the letter ‘t’

Me dotther needs to know.......

Can't think of anyone on that list with bad diction. One that grates with me is the inability to pronounce 'th' at the end of words :-

as in "fort, fift and sixt"

Quite common on RTE Radio 1.

shtpEdthePlum

Oh I forgot the weirdest one of all, Sean Moncrieff going "that text woll cost you 50c".

??

L1011

gourcuff wrote: »

its because there are so many culchies dominating Irish media and broadcasting, there are far more regional accents in Irish media than the UK where it all sounds quite home counties...

UK hasn't been all home counties for quite some time, indeed its quite the opposite now.

BBC quite specifically seek out regional accents for anything youth-content related. Radio 1 moved this way about 25 years ago; and now as presenters get older they turn up elsewhere

There are also a huge number of Irish voiceovers for station imaging and adverts, as it prevents it being identified as any specific English region.

Sir Oxman

The one that bugs the sh1t out of me is -sh instead of -t at the end of some words.
D'Arcy and Moncrieff do this all the time.

It becomes ish
Out is oush

twinklerunner

gourcuff wrote: »

its because there are so many culchies dominating Irish media and broadcasting, there are far more regional accents in Irish media than the UK where it all sounds quite home counties...

A quick list from a reddit thread...

Sarah Mcinerney
Claire Byrne
Oliver Callan
Seán Moncrieff
Ray D’Arcy
John Creedon
John Kelly
Mary Wilson
Colette Browne
Rachael English
Cormac Ó hEadhra
Darren Frehill

Matt Cooper
Ivan Yates
Jonathan Healy
Kieran Cuddihy
Shane Coleman
Andrea Gilligan
Richard Chambers
Siofra Mulqueen

Dara O’Brian
Tommy Tiernan
Damien Lawlor

Nathan Murphy
Joe Molloy

Ciaran Murphy
Billy Joe Padden
Kieran Cunningham
Ger Gilroy
Eoin Sheehan
Colm Parkinson

Michael Lyster
Sean O’Rourke
Mark Tighe
Brendan O’Connor
Aisling Bea
Sharon Horgan

wall to wall culchies out there...

Joe Duffy. Sorry to burst your bubble. Tirty tree.

Cole

Tis mighty altogether to see so many linguists on here...especially those whose expertise is clearly in the phonology of Irish/Hiberno English...and not a hint of a superiority (or should that be inferiority) complex at all.

plodder

L1011 wrote: »

UK hasn't been all home counties for quite some time, indeed its quite the opposite now.

like Beff Rigby repawtin from Westminstah...

Brendan Bendar

Where did this RTE penchant for ‘NOOZE’ spring from?

TV3….. they are all at it now ……except the News readers.

Ballsy is the worst proponent of that disgusting pronunciation.

iffandonlyif

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/116628749#Comment_116628749

This is such pathetic sarcasm. Explain to me how it could ever be conceived of as an inferiority complex.

ford fiesta

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117718887#Comment_117718887

Think Matt Cooper on today fm started this nooooze lark

Brendan Bendar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117719131#Comment_117719131

I think you could be right.

it’s like COVID-19 now, running roughshod through RTE radio.

Cant believe someone in RTE standards hasn’t stepped in and put a stop to it.

BrianD3

has anyone mentioned Emma O'Kelly yet? Spits out her "t" sounds in an exaggerated manner. The polar opposite to Matt "Saherday" Cooper but just as annoying. She's much worse in pre recorded reports than when she's live in the studio

Reminds me of a swotty schoolgirl in an elocution class trying to impress her tutor. "Now, in this year's Leaving CerTTTTificaTTTTe....."

Brendan Bendar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117719661#Comment_117719661

Will listen out for that .

As we are at who is the one on the Weather who rasps out the Ss like grade 43 sandpaper

As in ‘Eassssst and Wessssst’

Would strip paint off a set of bannisters in about an hour.

BrianD3

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117719684#Comment_117719684

Nuala Carey? Her delivery seems unnatural, slow and teacher-like.

Brendan Bendar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117719805#Comment_117719805

Nope …not Nuala.

Cole

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117718930#Comment_117718930

If you'd left out the first sentence/comment, then I'd have bothered me arse to engage with your 'question'.

Anyway, this new Boards version is giving me a headache, so I couldn't be arsed on both counts.

gourcuff

What do people mean by regional accents? every accent is regional...

whisky_galore

The many many ads: "Avail-a-bill-a-dee", "Trin-a-dee", "For-dee" (40), The National "Lodder-ee", "Zuz-Dain-a-bill-a-dee"

iamwhoiam

Loddie Ryan .

crazy 88

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117732053#Comment_117732053

A word used by those in yellow to describe those in green

ford fiesta

as I mentioned in the worst ad's thread: a very recent public service Covid ad pronounced "Thanks" as "sanks"

Brendan Bendar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117719131#Comment_117719131

That one, Petula Martin on the Business ‘Nooze’ as she calls it is a serial ‘Nooze’ offender.

Where da fuuherke did this stuff spring from?

The ‘Nooze’ virus has spread expediently through RTE… all the Munster crowd are at it and nobody is stopping it.

what is fhuhhkkng happening here.?

Allinall

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117979703#Comment_117979703

I suppose it's an extension of people typing gobbledegook and expecting others to know what they're on about.