by Mike Cleaver » Wed Feb 13, 2013 4:54 pm
They say the same thing about music.
Today, it's pretty poseurs of both sexes who actually cannot sing or play without tons of technical augmentation such as "Awfultune," Beat Detective, Pro-Stools and other accoutrements designed to mask their talent deficit.
Each recording takes hours of tweaking and the "artist" can no longer perform it live, instead, lip synching to a recorded track.
Real talent can stand on the stage, sing without accompaniment or with a piano and guitar and hit 98 per cent of the notes.
They also know how to tune and play their instrument.
When I started in radio back in the early '60s, there were tests in English by senior people who also monitored your on air work.
Corrections in English came quickly and if you wanted to move up the ladder, you learned just as quickly.
Did you ever take the CBC announcer's test back in the last century?
The writer also is talking about the US, where they haven't spoken English for years, much the same as in Australia.
As an aside, Jim, why do almost all of the "readers" on News 1130 feel that it's OK to drop the "ly" from words that require it?
I'm hearing this more and more often.
Mistakes in basic English are grating to hear.
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