drex wrote:Yes, criticising a grown adults actual stutter which they don't have control over is totally normal. Real classy stuff.
FYI, this is the communication business and there are standards at play here - one of them being comprehensibility.
Unless this thread has been edited (and I suspect it has), I haven't seen any accusations here of a stutter (or more correctly, a stammer - one would know unless one has never consulted a speech therapist).
Also, to be grammatically correct, it should have been written "a grown
adult's actual stutter" to properly indicate possession.
Pesky apostrophes often make a big difference. I know - it's a minor journalistic detail, but anything goes with young know-it-all professionals these days. And you can blame that on poor education and not unfortunate genetics.
It's not so much a stutter, a stammer, or an accent, that makes folks unintelligible - it's rate of speech.
Some nights I've clocked Drex diatribes at over 300 words per minute, with competing voices often talking over each other. The average comprehensible rate of human speech is around 150 words per minute (200 max if the speaker has great enunciation skills).
Couple speech impediment, rate of speech, accent, and production techniques that slams audio elements together without a hint of listener-sympathetic preparedness, The Shift With Drex is more accurately perceived as The Shift With Audio Train Wrecks.
If you want to be in a business where being heard and understood is essential, one would think that great effort would be taken to overcome known shortcomings and ameliorate them as best as possible.
But to not acknowledge faults and simply counter with the bluster of ego and bullyisim ... well, good luck with that.
It's one thing to make a living as a "personality" ... but it's pointless if no one can understand what you are saying.
And it might be a time for some people to seek the advice of a career guidance counselor if they want to make a success out of life.