Furthermore…

Talk radio annoys me because someone feels it is necessary to have nondescript musical sounds playing along at the same time that they are playing a cut of someone’s statement. I guess this is supposed to give it a professional or “finished” sound. Trouble is, when it is a Pope w/acccent, Brit, or  cleric who swallows his words it doesn’t add to the efficacy of communicating a message.

Now I am still reeling from trying to follow the proceedings of the Quebec conference, where some well-intentioned fellow simultaneously translated into English the words of the official speakers of other tongues. Trouble was, the speakers and the translator were talking at the same time at about the same volume, so what arrived at  listeners’ ears was a garbled bilingual simultaneity.

Isn’t there a bright high school kid somewhere who can put together better audio, you know, the kind that is intelligible?