@@jeremyh9213 Her elocution defect simply means that not everything is pronounced 'correctly'. While her speech eccentricity way may well be a common street practice, the circumstances are different when one is formally speaking especially in such an august company.
Still not sure what you’re saying makes complete sense in this context. The “g” is never stressed. In fact, should one stress it, one would sound funny and eyebrows would be raised. The letter “I” is what is stressed. If she left the “I” unstressed then that be more like street talk. The way she introduced the author is perfectly fine for American standards. In fact, if she were southern, it would difficult to hide the accent...anyway, hope you enjoyed Auster’s new book.
@@jeremyh9213 Thank you for your comments. And yes, I thoroughly enjoyed Paul Auster's novel. A fully-deserved candidate for the Booker prize, I have no doubt. Stay safe, be good.
I think you'll find that she does produce the ŋ-sound at the end of "in his writing" slightly after 0:50 :P I've recently noticed some people, perhaps co-incidentally mostly women, replacing the
The lady who introduces the proceedings has the very annoying habit of dropping the 'g' from every word ending with 'ing.'
What are you talking about? She’s pronouncing everything correctly...
@@jeremyh9213 Her elocution defect simply means that not everything is pronounced 'correctly'. While her speech eccentricity way may well be a common street practice, the circumstances are different when one is formally speaking especially in such an august company.
Still not sure what you’re saying makes complete sense in this context. The “g” is never stressed. In fact, should one stress it, one would sound funny and eyebrows would be raised. The letter “I” is what is stressed. If she left the “I” unstressed then that be more like street talk. The way she introduced the author is perfectly fine for American standards. In fact, if she were southern, it would difficult to hide the accent...anyway, hope you enjoyed Auster’s new book.
@@jeremyh9213 Thank you for your comments. And yes, I thoroughly enjoyed Paul Auster's novel. A fully-deserved candidate for the Booker prize, I have no doubt. Stay safe, be good.
I think you'll find that she does produce the ŋ-sound at the end of "in his writing" slightly after 0:50 :P I've recently noticed some people, perhaps co-incidentally mostly women, replacing the