This is so true. It is hard for me to think that the American people will want to listen to even five minutes of a Hillary campaign speech. Her flat vowels (which AnAmericanMother notes) just grind upon one's ear. The screechy voice tonality also doesn't help things. I can't recall ever hearing such an irritating public speaker.
You kind of wonder why it never occurred to her to have taken speech lessons years ago if the Presidency was her ambition.
When I was a high school student I wanted so bad to be a radio announcer and accordingly I enrolled in every speech-related course in high school and college that I could find. All of them accented the "rounding" of the vowel sounds. Not hard to do with practice and the results are remarkable.
Singing is closely connected with good public speaking. I once recorded some radio PSAs for an organization I was involved in -- I had never recorded anything (other than choral singing of course), but I approached the mike as though I were singing - good deep breathing, round tones, steady pacing, enunciation.
I got away in one take. The engineer asked if I was in radio.
You kind of wonder why it never occurred to her to have taken speech lessons years ago if the Presidency was her ambition.
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Why, you silly person, lessons are for little people like you and me. Her majesty is entitled to the presidency and also entitled to hurt our ear drums if she so chooses.