Fractured French, et. al.
T is with some diffidence that I suggest that the pronunciation of foreign names by announcers on the YC network is well below par. I am diffident because my standards may be considered snobbish and finicky; even if Debussy is said as if to rhyme with "the pussy" or Seraglio
to rhyme with "a bag Leo," it is perfectly clear what is meant: why make a fuss? My point is that it is as easy to say these words correctly as in a rough anglicised way, which I find uncouth. I can find no excuse for slovenliness in these matters; they might as well be right as wrong, and it is an inverted snobbery which teaches us to despise, or dismiss as pedantic, those who speak a foreign language with a reasonably accurate intonation. It is moreover something which anyone can learn with a little diligence: allez-y!
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 816, 18 March 1955, Page 11
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151Fractured French, et. al. New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 816, 18 March 1955, Page 11
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