I empathize. But you know what bothers me more? It's the speech impediment that appears on TV regularly....especially news anchors and weather reporters. No one teaches kids how to speak any longer in grade school -- and those who speak professionally don't care enough to learn the rules of enunciation. I'm so tired of people adding an "sh" sound to "st" words. "Shtory," "conshtruction," "shtreet," etc. I could go on and on, but that would make it worse for me.
My brain is wired in such a way that if I hear a word that doesn't immediately make sense to me, I stop, and rewind the sentence to figure out what's wrong...and I end up missing what comes afterwards because I'm stuck on some idiot making new rules for the English language. When I search on this, at least it's comforting to find out that I'm not the only one noticing.
I empathize. But you know what bothers me more? It's the speech impediment that appears on TV regularly....especially news anchors and weather reporters. No one teaches kids how to speak any longer in grade school -- and those who speak professionally don't care enough to learn the rules of enunciation. I'm so tired of people adding an "sh" sound to "st" words. "Shtory," "conshtruction," "shtreet," etc. I could go on and on, but that would make it worse for me.
My brain is wired in such a way that if I hear a word that doesn't immediately make sense to me, I stop, and rewind the sentence to figure out what's wrong...and I end up missing what comes afterwards because I'm stuck on some idiot making new rules for the English language. When I search on this, at least it's comforting to find out that I'm not the only one noticing.
I hear you! Praying for all of us. Thanks.