Announcement Air Hostess Style

Have you ever flown on a commercial flight and really listened carefully to what air hostess said when he/she made in-flight announcement? Honestly, I always think that they have their own language. It’s universal, and it’s their language.

I don’t know where they learn to speak the language. I would presume in the air hostess’ school. Of course I can’t say anything about it when the announcement was made in language other than Malay or English. But I would think that it would be just the same.

Frankly, I think they really, really need to work on their diction. They really, really need to learn how to pronounce the words properly. It can’t be too difficult. Even if they are as dumb as whatever, if they keep on reading the same script over and over and over again for probably a gazillion time, they should be able to pronounce it better every time. They could even learn to pronounce it in Queen’s English or any accent that they want but proper. Or for the Malay version, to me they could say it in any dialect they want depending on the route of the flight. It doesn’t matter to me but it has to be proper. Instead, they decided to pronounce words their way – like ‘I did it my way’ kind of thing. Cute kot?

I seriously feel that they should employ people who train those newscasters to train them. They are making safety announcement for goodness sake or any other important announcement in flight. And, if it’s important enough to make such announcement, then it should be important enough for them to pay attention to what they are saying. Mumbling or saying things that are undecipherable won’t help. And they way the pronounce things irritate me. They don’t know which points to stress on or which points that they can lay it low. They probably think that saying things in their own ‘soft’ way or ‘meleweh’ (I seriously don’t know any other words for this) way work for the passengers. Even the male hostesses say things in the same ‘soft’ way. Gosh.

Erk. Why do I blog about this? Dah lama dah nak blog about this but I keep on forgetting. I always ‘blog’ about it in my head when I fly but never really put it in writing. So this is sort of a long overdue entry. Ekekekeke.. Aci tak?

Happy Friday people. I just wish I could fly anywhere for a holiday!

Angah