RADIO QUIZ
Sir--No one can object to American tadio programmes given for American servicemen-presumably they know what their own people like, and it would be discourteous for us to criticise. What I do object to most emphatically are such things as Easy Aces, and the number of American items thrust into New Zealand programmes, America has_ evolved, mainly from Anglo-Saxon, a language of her own, and indeed, why not? But, equally, why should we not prefer to listen to our own? I dislike to hear my country called Noo Zealand; to hear Americah crooners miaowing ,maudlin love ditties-like the dripping of treacle in a warm room; to hear the blare of tuneless instruments with a background of tom-toms. If we must have American records, let us have their better ones. It is surely bad for our children to have poor music, and worse plays, continually blared at them. It gives them no chance to love good music and good literature. Our New Zealand speech is surely bad enough; it does us no good to hear worse American on screen and radio-for instance, why is "yeah" or "yep" supposed to be better than "yes"? England is our homeland; English is (or ought to be) our mother-tongue. So let us have good English programmes. And, may I add, let us have New Zealand announcers properly trained to correct and pleasant speech. Some of them are.
P. R.
MILLS
(Eli Bay).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 283, 24 November 1944, Page 7
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238RADIO QUIZ New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 283, 24 November 1944, Page 7
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