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o very insistent on good pronunciation.,audiences are now subjectedto streams of barely literate trivia, often designed, only too well, toexhibit39。, and larded (夾雜. with theobscenities (下流的話. and grammatical errors of theintellectually impoverished. Emily Post once advised her readers: Thetheatre is the best possible place to hear correctlyenunciated speech. Alas, no more. One young actress was recently reported to be taking lessons inhow to speakbadly, so that she should fit in better. But the BBC is the worst traitor. Aideryears of very successfully helping to raise the general standard ofspokenEnglish, it suddenly went into reverse. As the head of the Pronunciation Unitcoyly (含蓄地. put it, In the1960s the BBC opened thefield to a much wider range of speakers. To hear a BBC disc jockeytalking to thelatest apelike pop idol is a truly shocking experience of verbalsqualor. And the prospect seems to be of evenworse to e. School teachers areactively encouraged to ignore little Johnny39。s work will befiner if he observes certain aesthetic standards unfinished work is boundto be paratively inferior skill of certain artistsconceals their slovenliness expression isinhibited by too many rules 5Many modem plays, theauthor finds, frequently contain speech which _________ incoherent andlinguistically objectionable far too ungrammatical formost people to follow shocks theaudience to hide the author