FOREIGNERS SPEAKING
Sir,-In radio plays depicting life in any country other than our own, why should the characters speak in a hideous travesty of the English language? This habit is doubly exasperating in plays based on biography, as the listener assumes that the personalities portrayed spoke their mother tongue with ease. I have just listened to the story of a very famous Frenchwoman, made to sound as if she were suffering simultaneously from strangulation and hiccoughs. Couldn’t these vocal gymnastics be reserved only for characters speaking in a language foreign to them?
INEZ S.
HAYES
(Kaeo).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 797, 29 October 1954, Page 5
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96FOREIGNERS SPEAKING New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 797, 29 October 1954, Page 5
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