Weak pronouns: Hands up, this is a robbery!
This week, when we celebrated Radio Day, I remembered that when I was little, I used to play at making programmes, with theme tunes and all that. I had invented the name of a radio station, Radio Cataplasma, which, incomprehensibly, no one has ever used. Radio is the medium in which I started out as a journalist, it is where I wanted to work. I began to learn the trade, and so many other things, partly because I had the immense luck of sharing the five years that the programme lasted with Joan Barril and a team of fantastic people. The Republic on COM Ràdio. I still remember the pride I felt the morning a taxi driver recognized me by my voice: "You are Anna Guitart from The Republic? "Aquest Rai with whom you speak on the phone, is Rai Barba?" I'm going to explain that he escorts every morning, that he connects with everyone, and feeling part of it is going to be very special.
Because it's not the main professional activity, the radio follows a part of my life, because I always escort him Well, turn it on, it's one of the first things that I do when I wear it, and I put it on every time I wear a suit, while I do the soup or when I rent the teeth, I only have one inconvenience: I have to talk alone. look up the protagonists I've been watching some news stories (especially since Trump became president again). I also admit that I sometimes get nervous with some journalists: "Well, one thing: if you don't have to escort her, don't interview her!" Others seem very nice, and I often find myself saying to myself, also out loud, "what a hot chick," or "what an interesting question." However, I've noticed that there's one thing that really gets on my nerves: the commercials. I get annoyed by how badly some of them use language, to the point of hurting my ears. One is talking about the electricity bill, and the announcer is a man who doesn't know how to pronounce the double el. He thinks he's saying, three times in a row, "light, light, light," but in reality he's saying "ium, ium, ium." I didn't know how to pronounce the double ela either, but since I wanted to work in radio, I went to a speech therapist. Are you saying that if you want to be a radio announcer, it wouldn't be worth knowing how to pronounce it?
Continuing with the grumpy nature of the article, I'll add that the ones that bother me the most are the ads that leave out the weak pronouns. There's another one where they also repeat a phrase three times (it must be studied): "Buy two and get three." Not "get three," no, "get three." I can't stand it. It's just an example, but it happens in many ads. We thought that the diacritics were a robbery, but the real robbery is the weak pronouns. I know they're difficult, everyone says that when they start learning Catalan, but regular speakers are increasingly not leaving them out. Recently, I found myself saying to my son: "There are cookies. Do you want some?" Ugh, I got so mad! We must be vigilant, because it is like a plague that spreads. We all have a part of responsibility, including the media. Hearing ads that ignore us all over the place does not help. Dear radio advertisers, please put a spell checker in your campaigns. Put a spell checker in your campaigns. Put a spell checker in your campaigns. Let's see if writing it three times works. Thank you very much.
