I went in the late 80's. Nicest people I've ever met, with Iceland a very close second.
Both made me feel depressed about how Americans act. By comparison, we are a group of uncivil toddlers.

Edit: my favorite story that exemplifies this was from a hot spring we visited with a dozen concrete pools on a hillside, one emptying into the next. Two groups of kids were playfully throwing pebbles at each other from one pool to the next when one, about 12, stood up and in the most calm voice and proper enunciated English said "Excuse me, but I would appreciate it if you would stop throwing stones.", and they all stopped. We just couldn't imagine that working with American kids, they would all target the complainer. It was quite a lesson on how civilized they are, and how far behind American manners have fallen.

Am I missing something here? He's asking "What does Y-E-S spell?" If there's an "E" at the beginning, he's not enunciating clearly enough.

wow I gotta say, I would have failed that - there are certain clues in sentences that let you figure out what the rest of the sentence is going to lead to, and when it started with "where will...." you are automatically assuming you need to find where something is - in this case the marble. Without paying very careful attention to every word (which the lady didn't enunciate very clearly) I think it's fair for the mind to start to think about where the marble is rather than where it was.

So a couple of things:
1. The lady should have simplified the whole story, and made it more fit for a boy (how many boys play with dolls called Sally?) She also should have setup the final question more clearly, i.e.

"When Jack comes home from school, the first thing he does is play marbles, he always keeps his marbles in his top draw.

One day Bob takes the marbles while Jack is at school

When Jack comes home, where is he going to look for the marbles?"

I think that is a lot more fair because the important, final question, starts by setting the scene in Jack's house, so your mind is picturing being in Jack's house and you're in Jack's shoes.

Im not too young to remember old bobbo, but its been a very long time since weve had someone in the office that enunciates like someone who would own a fish and chip shop and throw pickled onions at you if you upset her....if you catch my drift.

Pronouncing the word 'cotton' without enunciating even ONE of the T's, is a learned and practiced, ghetto-ass speech impediment.

Being honest guys, he didn't enunciate it perfectly, but it clearly ended in a t, and he clearly meant epithet. I can't help but wonder if the tone of these comments would be different if the speaker weren't black.

Heh. Yeah, he talks to quickly for Arnold, and there are a few areas where he could enunciate more strongly, but still funny enough that I'll probably check out whatever else he's done just for the situational comedy (pulling up behind the cop, basically running around in opposite lanes, etc.)

Yo man, she was under a lot of pressure and she blew out the end of her answer with a jam-packed-battery of well-articulated and enunciated garbledy....She was able to endorse the wholesale use of marijuana and pull it off looking genuinely concerned about the potential for any mishaps....I am gonna pick very smart and not-so-stupid

Grace under pressure.

I like the information this guy presents, but I can'T...Stand...his Enunciation and....Cadence. NObody...talks like this....on purpose.

Eyeh'dn'tbin? Enunciate, Joe!

Upvote for ample vocalization [no comment on the shortfalls in enunciation] =o)

>> ^PHJF:

Plural of roof is roofs, not rooves


While true, it is a strange and illogical part of the language as it stands today. We pretty much pluralize every other word ending in "fs" to "ves". Dwarf/dwarves, staff/staves, scarf/scarves, life/lives, hoof/hooves, half/halves, calf/calves, and on and on. It's easier to enunciate this way. If enough people agree and use rooves, it will eventually be legitimized by dictionaries.

good enunciation, but dropped a bit on the delivery.

having a hard time believing this is real but... damn. Not sure I've ever heard a bird enunciate that clearly before. I didn't even notice the subtitles till halfway through because I didn't need them.

>> ^Fletch:

Everything NDT says sounds like the most astounding fact he's ever heard, and that you should be astounded by it too. His meter - every enunciation, accentuation, and pause - sounds affected and I, for some reason, can't stand to listen to him. I've tried. He talks about things I'm interested in and I enjoy reading what he has written (I have "Pluto Files" and "Space Chronicles" on my Kindle), but when he starts talking, it just sounds like he's talking to five year-olds to me.
F ck it, upvote.


I know exactly what you're saying. There's a british version of this and he's called Brian Cox. Every single time he speaks, i feel my skin crawling that he knows that he has to try and manipulate the audience into feeling emotion that they just don't feel.

I subscribe to the principle as well. I agree, the connectedness of the universe is absolutely amazing. When you think about the familiar vs. the unfamiliar, the known vs. the unknown.... we know each other, we know the planet we live on and we feel safe here, but there's an infinite chasm in all directions around us. Sometimes when i consider this i can give myself vertigo.

If i were trapped in a cave with the most fundamental islamist ever, and we didn't know what lay on the other side of the collapsed wall, we'd eventually cooperate and work together to get out, to see what's there. Maybe we find something great out there, or maybe we have to build some defences to make ourselves safer in the cave.

Put us on earth, and we put bombs in each other's homes. The knowledge of how amazing the universe is really does lift you up, places you above all the stupid racism and general jingoism. But you can't fake it or inspire it, you either feel it or you don't.

Having said that, at least they're getting the field of physics more attention, and maybe they might influence some kids whilst they're influence-able.