My heart always gives a little lift when someone takes the trouble to stand up for our language. Ellie Hallet from Toowoomba took the trouble to write to the Sydney Morning Herald with some sound advice:
No longer can we blame the flies for the way we squash our consonants and swallow our vowels. If we sound like dopes, the world will treat us like dopes.
So pop a hefty "t" sound in words such as "water" and "thirty"; add a juncture of silence between "this and "year"; understand when to use "less" and "fewer"; remove "and yes" from your vocabulary; be unafraid to project your voice and incorporate big words. Oh, and every morning tell yourself that you must not neglect to open your vowels.
Lang may your lum reek, Ellie.
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