Re: And the temperature is?

[Shawn Mamros <mamros@MIT.EDU>]

>Heard this morning on WBZ radio:
>
>"WBZ News Time is 71 degrees"
>
>No falter, no recognition at all of having made an error.

Which is exactly what a good announcer is supposed to do when such a
minor slip-up is made.  Saying anything more about it, or apologizing,
only highlights the error, which 99% of the listening audience probably
never caught in the first place.

Or at least that's what I was taught...

- -Shawn Mamros
E-mail to: mamros@mit.edu

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