Catherine Byaruhanga.....

[ToraToraTora]

Now I know that we must have ethnic diversity in news readers but how did this woman pass a screen test? She can't pronounce "L", says "De" instead of "the" and stumbles over sentences all the time, just waiting to see if she says "aks"! What happened to quality, like Clive Myrie, Trevor McDonut and Moira Stewart for example? 

[Redhelen72]

No you're right about that, it is nothing to do with hearing and more to do with her being an ethnic woman!

[bednobs]

if  there are millions of viewers, then they can most likely understand her, or why continue to watch

[ToraToraTora]

16:42, the lefties brought up ethnicity, I actually complained and a post was removed. It ain't me talking about ethnicity.

[ToraToraTora]

16:43, I'll just nip off and interview them all....!

[andy-hughes]

TTT - // I can understand her and have said so at least 5 times now. I can also understand Jimmy Krankee but I would not expect to see him reading the news. //

Do I understand then, that your criticism is of Ms Byaruhanga is simply her accent, which is not received pronunciation?

That's fair enough.

What is not fair enough is the alleged pronunciations in your OP, and your further screed in the thread, none of which anyone else can hear at all.

If that's the case, then you simply need to find an alternative source for your news coverage, since disliking an accent is unlikley to receive much traction as an adrgument - as this thread admirably demonstrates.

// Why is that point so difficult for people like you to grasp? //

I'm unsure what you actually mean by 'people like me' - do you mean people who think you are wrong? Or is there some other meaning of which I am unaware?

// I did not mention ethnicity and I actually got a racist post removed on this very thread so there no such attack, thinly-veiled or otherwise. //

I have pointed out that there is - where you directly 'translate' what you believe this lady is saying, which, and again I point it out since you are wilfully determined not to acknowledge the simple fact - only you can hear.

// Yes I am cracking on. //

You are likely to invoke the law of diminishing returns then, since no-one is going to post, simply to be ignored, or talked down to.

[andy-hughes]

TTT - // 16:42, the lefties brought up ethnicity //

I referred to ethnicity, and I am not a 'lefty'.

[ToraToraTora]

AH: "Do I understand then, that your criticism is of Ms Byaruhanga is simply her accent, which is not received pronunciation?

That's fair enough." - Well perhaps a combination of both but the overall point is that historically BBC news readers while not identical have always had a particular style of pronounciation

"What is not fair enough is the alleged pronunciations in your OP, and your further screed in the thread, none of which anyone else can hear at all." - no one has heard what I've heard they are all using a sample carefully selected earlier by the world's number one contrarian.

[andy-hughes]

TTT - // no one has heard what I've heard they are all using a sample carefully selected earlier by the world's number one contrarian. //

Not so.

I cannot speak for anyone else, but I have heard Ms Byaruhanga deliver the news many times, and I have never had any issue with her pronuncation, or her accent.

That aside, I fail to believe that the sample clip offered is an example of Ms Byaruhanga speaking completely differently than she does on any other occasion.

That would be a coincidence that is simply not believeable.

[THECORBYLOON]

TORATORATORA, "no one has heard what I've heard they are all using a sample carefully selected earlier by the world's number one contrarian."

The screenshot I posted earlier contradicts that.

 

I tried it again a few minute ago and got the same result.

https://ibb.co/1QKy4sD

 

[THECORBYLOON]

In case you think I restricted the search in some way, you will see the only term used in the search bar was her name.

https://ibb.co/wh4pndJ

[Atheist]

I think it's time that people stopped bullying poor misunderstood T-cubed.

[douglas9401]

 

There's more to worry about from the new breed of talking head who sound like they've come off a conveyor belt for shopping channel drones.

One glaring example is Ariana Bravo on Channel 4s F1 coverage. Very odd way of speaking.

[Countrylover]

All I noticed was she has a very,  very small problem with r's and l's  but she speaks clearly and and is easy to understand.  A perfect newsreader in my opinion.  

 

 

[Atheist]

Oh well. T-cubed has clocked up 133 answers so far and that might put him in a better mood. The boy done good for such a silly post.

[Peter Pedant]

I don't talk like I write. Thank god for that. I do

I  find the leddy hard to understand, but.... there is currently not much news about

[Peter Pedant]

16:42, the lefties brought up ethnicity, I actually complained and a post was removed. It ain't me talking about ethnicity.

o god this kind of stuff drives me crazy:  T3 is obviously talking about ethnicity (mentioned twice)

[jno]

no such thing as "no accent". An American would think King Charles was a toffee-nosed git and TTT was Dick Van Dyke.

[Atheist]

My nephew has a powerful lancashire accent, but thinks he has no accent at all. Everyone's got an accent, as AB's brightest gal has pointed out (haven't you, love?)

[andy-hughes]

Looks like TTT has done the wisest thing since he posted this unpleasant thread, he's cut his (considerable!) losses, and abandoned it.

[ToraToraTora]

nope not abandonned it fizzled out once all those attacking the messenger rather than the message abandonned it. I'm here all week. No amount of shooting the messenger will persuade me that this woman is fit to be a news reader.