
A recent article by
Spotlightradio highlighted Wanderingscribes blog.
Spotlightradio appears to be a Christian organisation who post articles in "Specialised English", a special English method of broadcasting.
This may come as a surprise to those of us who use English everyday and never knew there was a special way of speaking it.
Apparently, you need to go on a course run by Officer Crabtree from "Allo Allo" who teaches you how to speak English correctly !?!
I fear that if "Johnny Foreigner" thinks that all people in England speak like this, he'll be very much surprised when he lands in our fair shores for a holiday.
The article about Wanderingscribe (available in mp3 format
here ) will be appreciated by fans of Anya for many reasons, not the least of which is that the narrators speak slowly and leave nice big gaps so you can mull over the last sentence in your mind.
Sadly though, the Spotlightradio researchers have a comprehension level on a par with a small piece of blue fluff you find in your belly button.
They inform their listener that Anya covers how she lost her job in London (must be in the hidden part of her blog that no-one else has seen) and cherry picks at the comments left on the blog, telling how people offer help etc.
No mention of the detractors of course and why not?
Probably two reasons.
1. As it's a Christian site they'd want to accentuate the positive and "big up" the "fellowship of man" angle.
2. Anya has been systematically removing any of the comments that asked questions or raised doubts about the authenticity of her claims.
On this blog, we have touched on the subject of Anya removing negative posts from the comments section of her blog before but this article by Spotlighradio highlights the fact that, if someone now researches her story, they'll find precious few detractors and will be given the impression that the whole world is wishing her well and are all firm believers in her story.
Thank goodness this blog exists to provide a bit of balance.
Not that the (ex) die hard Anya fans will be swayed the humble views offered by this blog.
If they lapped up Anya's "wonderful and insightful" waffle then they are the ideal target audience for Spotlightradio and will rejoice in finding somewhere that provides "wonderful and insightful" narration to listen to as they do their basket weaving at the day centre.