Get used to it, Ian. We are fast reaching grunting and sign language as a means of 'communication'. Although I must say that you are naive in expecting the ex-sportspeople employed on radio and TV these days to speak well; sport and education don't really go together.

Ian Nance, one of those Latin students myself and others didn't mix with during school days. The cultured classes. Or myself the uncultured classes. Life is interesting. But in the end, we all of us, eat S* and breath just the same: But some live better than others, so Latin obviously assists in the progress towards riches which non-Latin users find, unless for a stroke of luck, difficult or impossible.

From this end of the S* tty rod, the ABC appears to have a few more problems than pronunciation issues. What annoys me mostly about the ABC is its lack of vision. Its news and current affairs coverage is abysmal. Biased and clouded with a one eyed view of the world through the rose tinted glasses of aboriginal affairs, homosexual agendas, and the F* labor party, with a smattering of anti American and blatant pro Chinese bias.
Apart from classical music which it excels at, its arts are the same mix of current affairs bias, but in art form.

So Ian, I guess you can ignore the above and smug off to watch the ABC television sports coverage. And if you worked there, you were part of the problem for the rest of us outside the world hub of biased media!

Personally I am sickened by the ABC's push on perversion and its often lying narrative rather than the tone of a sports reporter. To think billions of dollars of tax payer money is used for socialist regressive ideology.

Boorish, toffee nosed snobbery? And just a trogan horse for the usual buffoons who dislike true freedom of speech, and I know you know, who I mean? Ver non semper viret.
Alan B.

Ian. It is not a question of “ ‘Toffee’ accent" but intelligible speech. You can worry about “sports bogans” , and leaving to one side multicultural ABC TV, I get very frustrated by the poor quality of speech of announcers of ABC Classic FM. I have repeated requested that they announce distinctly the name of the composer and the work played.
Could this posting and the comments be drawn to the attention of Michelle Guthrie, ABC Managing Director, who in implementing “a major cultural and structural transformation” at the ABC, is provoking disaffection

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