Torture methods, Part II

The torture continues.
There is a moment in Walter Scott's Ivanhoe where the ringing of a church bell, heralding an upcoming ceremony of the Knights Templar, is described as follows: Wave after wave the oppressive ringing reached their ears, scarcely one died away in the distance, and the heavy iron bell resounded through the air. That ringing froze their hearts...

I don't know what this melody was, but somehow it very successfully describes the ringing of the bell in Bulgaria announcing death. As soon as one chilling chime has died down, the next one appears. And so - 33 times. So, repeating unpredictably many times a day.

The last time this happened - a few days ago, it lasted 4 days. Judging by the original tradition here, that the bell rings two days in a row for one dead person, I would have to assume that two people died one after the other. But that would be a very unlikely assumption, wouldn't it, so I'm once again betting on my theory that the person responsible for ringing the bell in the village is a sadist who wants or has been told to torment the remaining people alive with this constant ominous and extremely prolonged ringing, announcing death.

And now I want to mention another kind of torture that we are subjected to every day, quite inexplicable and illogical torture, you will admit, and someone will not even perceive it as such, I am sure, simply because it is illogical to happen. It does not carry messages to the subconscious like the above kind of torture, it carries quite explicit messages about the situation and the way of life, the order and the helplessness here. It shows how things simply do not happen in the way that they might normally happen.
And it's mainly about the news broadcasts on television. Especially the national television, the one sponsored by taxpayers' money. It's not about the news itself, about all the lies and manipulation. If we're talking about a reasonable viewer, after all these years of lies, they should have learned to successfully navigate between them. It's about the way they're presented, it's about some of the main figures in the news television shows - the reporters and the voice-overs who narrate the reports.
On national television, some of the most important reporters and voice-overs can't pronounce the words correctly, they have speech impediments. I'm not kidding.

One of the main speech disorders and the most common one is the inability to pronounce the letter "r". Bulgarian is a very hard-sounding language, and this letter is quite important, along with other hard consonants that support such a language. The inability to pronounce this sound makes speech silly, even difficult to listen to. And if we consider that this is presented to us on television, in the evening, during the main news, along with the presence of other linguistic disorders, it doesn't seem normal, am I right?

There are reports that are a complete torture to listen to. The kind made on the spot by such people, or the voice-over that presents important political news, for example.

And speaking of linguistic disorders, this is not some program for hiring people with disabilities, it's not supposed to be like that, right? There are other quotas on television that have been observed for a long time. The LGBT thing doesn't even need to be observed, because it's been observed naturally. The rule for hiring people from minorities has also been observed, after for years news and events about Bulgarian culture were presented by a Turkish woman (!).

But to appoint people who can't pronounce the words, who have difficulty pronouncing the words, when that is their primary task and function of that position, is quite inappropriate, isn't it?

And these women appointed to these positions do not seem to be in the least bit bothered by their inability to do the job for which they were appointed for some unknown reason or other.

I understand the theory that one should strive to do exactly what one is least good at, (who said that?), but should this be done at all costs and under such circumstances?

I don't want to offend any representative of any other nation, every language and every nation has its own specificities. I also probably sound strange when I speak German because I have my hard "r". I also have my hard Eastern European accent when I speak English. I learned Italian with Japanese girls who had really big difficulties because they couldn't pronounce a number of consonants.
This is not about that. This is about not being able to pronounce the words in your own language. And for this to be shown on TV, probably as some kind of standard.

You'll admit that the distortion of the world has taken incredible and quite unexpected directions, right?

When I was a student, there was only one girl in my class who couldn't pronounce the letter r. That was in high school. In elementary school, I don't even remember having such a classmate. There were three of us in one class who wrote with our left hands, which, you know, was a big problem and a sin in the past. But I don't remember anyone having a speech defect.

Nowadays, this is not the case. More and more people who happen to be on television in interviews or shows for one reason or another have speech defects. Some of them are presenters of shows. Some of them are obviously trying to do something, they went to a speech therapist. Others have done nothing and seem to be proud of it, after being appointed to such positions that require correct speech, which is impossible.

Nowadays I have the feeling that there is some kind of epidemic. An epidemic of speech disorder. A fashinable epidemic at that. Maybe not so significant, among all the behind-the-scenes and overt things being done to the population, but definitely hard to bear. Related perhaps again to that helpless thing I tried to say in the post about the young girl, promoted by a party at 23 and working as "an expert" since she was 18.
The women who can't pronounce the words, hired as reporters, are also "experts". They are hired, probably again with connections, and shamelessly show the Bulgarian people every night how it doesn't matter what you can or can't do when you know someone, when you are someone's daughter or lover. As is probably the case everywhere, but not on such brutally obvious scales as here.

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