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Newscasters spoke of the Flower Revolution, of the possibility that England might at last stop clinging to ancient protocol and allow its citizens to display the normal range of human emotion.
He had his hands full fielding telephone calls from them during WWII, when newscasters were daily faced with the problems of how to pronounce the names of people and places like von Ribbentrop, Sidi Barani, Ploesti , and Irriwaddy . Little has changed, but Cabell is long gone, and newscasters (or broadcasting networks), if they want to learn how to pronounce a name properly can usually find out by listening to BBC World Service.
Although it might be seen as commendable to make the interpretation of pronunciation symbols as easy as possible for the laziest users, I have little sympathy for the policy: in most cases, those who are too lazy to learn even the rudimentary respelling systems used in popular dictionaries (like the various college and desk dictionaries) are also too lazy to look up the pronunciation of a name or word, as is evidenced daily in the utterances of newscasters and announcers.
In a perfect world, there would be no need to refer to people by their skin color: many years ago newspapers agreed to omit mention of an individual's color, but they got round that by showing a photograph; today, television newscasters avoid irrelevant mention of skin color, but they seem almost relieved to be able to show a picture of someone being arrested and of looters and rioters.
In contrast, one has to wonder about the longevity of its main rival in the linguistic marketplace right now: talking the talk, but not walking the walk --a vivid expression from black English that seems lately to have become a mandatory part of the repertoire of white politicians, corporate executives, consultants, motivational speakers, newscasters, and sportswriters.
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