Semaphore Hands Of Correspondents And Presenters...........

[Paul22118]

Thought I would air my massive irritation of most tv correspondents and some presenters who are unable to do a piece to camera without waving their hands and arms all over the place. There is a new, and otherwise very good, presenter on BBC, I think a name like Navgod or similar, who speaks fluently and concisely to camera but waves his hands and arms around so much it is like a frantic semaphore signal. If you don't get what I am trying to tell you, just watch a selection of reporters on the main news tonight and you will not be disappointed. I cannot watch and have to flick channels. A good example of the best style of presenting is Huw Edwards who just stands or sits there talking. No wave of arms, just speech. So professional.

[Hopkirk]

I bet you hated having Bruno Tonioli on Strictly.

[nescio]

Definition:
Testiculate (intransitive verb) - to wave the arms around excitedly while talking complete ***

[nescio]

the starred out word begins with "b" and rhymes with rowlocks (pronounced in the usual way, i.e. rollocks)

[mushroom25]

channelling their inner Magnus Pyke, maybe?

[choux]

Showing your age there, mushroom ;), not that I ever minded about Magnus - always fascinated by his contribution.

Paul, I reckon that tying someone's hands together is akin to robbing them of speech...

[Paul22118]

Choux.

If they cannot speak properly without looking like a windmill - go to radio 4.

[237SJ]

Another trend that irritates me is the presenter (BBC are particularly fond of this) looks past the viewer to a camera at about 45 degs from the viewer. So they are looking past the viewer and not at them and they are being filmed from the side as if they are talking to someone out of shot.

[choux]

I do, regularly :)
If only that energy could be harnessed
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[douglas9401]

Just flagging up items of note.

[choux]

More like flipping bunting!

[Ken4155]

I don't mind them waving their arms about. It's when they can't speak properly that irks me.

Watching the recent semi final between Netherlands and Croatia and the co-commentator was ex England Women's team member Fara Williams. There does not appear to be a letter 't' in her alphabet as she was banging on and on about opportuni'ies and qualit'ies. She also had trouble pronouncing Croatia - kept saying Coratio and she also gave a lot of praise to one of the 'Coration players', Moderic. And i had to wonder if he was any relation to Luca Modric who was also on the field at the time.
Having said that, she wasn't on camera so she could also have been waving her arms about like a windmill on speed, for all i know:-)

[Ken4155]

My spellchecker must have added a 't' - "quali'ies", not qualities.

[jno]

everyone has trouble pronouncing Croatia, since it's Hrvatska. It's related to cravat, so there's a trick question in there somewhere about what European country is Tie-land.

[LadyCG]

When did gesticulate become "testiculate"

Does the latter mean when a man waves his balls around? ;-)

[choux]

Possibly, if he has an anemometer's worth, dependent on your view...