Radio stations are supposed to have skilled speakers providing information to the listener in a clear, concise manner where the listener should not have to struggle to understand what the speaker is saying. This is especially the case for news radio stations and weather and traffic reports (information critical to the listeners).
On a local radio station, a particular meteorologist always combines the words in the phrases "this morning" and "this afternoon". He combines the words such that the s is almost completely left off the word "this" and then connected to the front of "afternoon" or "evening": it turns into "thi-safternoon" or "thi-sevening". He's not speaking particularly fast and it doesn't seem like he's pressed for time, so I don't understand why he can't just slow down when he says these phrases so that he can clearly enunciate each word individually. He actually does the same thing to "this morning" but it's not noticed as much because the second word starts with a consonant and not a vowel.
Every time he says this, I literally want to reach through the radio and just smack him in the face. If I didn't want to hear the traffic report and weather forecast so badly, I would just change the station altogether and not listen to it at all!
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