- 1986 Wincott Young Financial Journalist of the Year
- 1994 Investigative Journalist of the Year
- 2005 Wincott Senior Financial Journalist of the Year and London Press Club's Scoop of the Year
- etc., etc.
In my blog entry mentioned above the sentence I analysed was: "I mean the way I tend to see things is - erm - that on the one hand plainly conditions - uh - economically, financially are a bit better than they were."
Listen to the very next sentence of RP's presentation:
It makes fairly heavy demands on the listener's listening abilities, does it not? Can you sort out this torrent of sounds?
I suppose Kraut is right to suggest that this might be a little daunting in its rapidity and colloquial style to many of his students but I find it perfectly clear. The only perhaps potentially upsetting feature for some English-native-speaking listeners is the omission of one sound /l/ which in less rapid delivery would be normally audible to represent the grammatical item spelt most formally as "will" after the word "sure". I find Peston's delivery often idiosyncratic even to the point of eccentricity but I so enjoy his forthrightness and pungency that I dont find I suffer at all in the way John Maidment seems to've suggested he does earlier in this thread.
ReplyDeleteI tried to make understanding easier by increasing the volume of the chunk of words following the initial section "but the metaphor". The original sentence is much less loud.
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