English as she is spoke.....

Exactly...

I have been going on about the appalling lack of well spoken people, in English and other languages. As I speak 5, fluently and have forgotten 2 which I don't use any more, I hope I have a right to comment on this.

A friend of mine tells me that languages have to develop, of course they do, but when they " develop" to the point that you can't understand what the other person is saying, what's the point? One could use deaf and dumb language just as well, as one can't mess it up! Much more sensible. Or Morse code. Everyone should be issued with a small clacking toy and off they'd go, clacking away. One would never need to open ones mouth. If someone had bad teeth, it would be an advantage not to have to show them in public. The noise would be horrendous and I can imagine what could happen in an argument, but the language would stay intact.

It has come to the point where one well spoken  person from a town can't understand what a badly spoken person, from the same town says. It's happened to me many times. I haven't a clue what people say because they talk with their mouths shut, half open, don't pronounce endings, gulp down the middle letters and generally cause havoc and mayhem. Languages are generally rather nice. English is, but it's massacred by most of the British population. The Andalucians do this as well, people from the northern part of the country can't understand them because half the word is missing! And there's no such language called Spanish actually. It's Castilian. 

Ranting on, why do actors and actresses swallow their words? Sometimes they talk so softly one needs a hearing aid to hear what they say, and then when they do say it, you can't understand it. I am constantly turning up and down the volume on a film  because the special effects are horrendously loud and make you deaf, so that when they do finally speak, you don't know what the hell they said!. Wonderful.

Having said all this, I deplore the way languages are going mainly because of utter laziness in the population. Children should be sent to special boot camps if they don't speak English properly. It'll teach them the glories of this language, keep them off the streets and make them thinner as they would have their mouths full of golf balls making them enunciate correctly.

Good, isn't it.............