On Jul 10, 9:59 am, PhilD wrote:
On Jul 9, 6:42 pm, alex_t wrote:

1. "Ladies and gentleman" (pretending to be polite is even worse then
being impolite)

The opening bits of an announcement should always be "disposable", as
it give a moment for people to register that ther's an announcement,
and start listening. For some people, including you, this can be
annoying, but some need that extra moment. By launching straight into
the important bit of the announcement, a lot of people will miss it
completely because they won't "tune in" quickly enough.

I appreciate that with constant announcements nowadays this probably
doesn't matter too much overall, but that is the intention.

That said, even using "Tell them you're going to tell them something;
tell them; then tell them what you said", some people still miss it!




The trouble is that the preambles aren't true. If you hear "Your
attention please; here is a special announcement ..." you can
guarantee that there will be absolutely nothing special about the
announcement.

If the announcement is special and important, it will probably be
garbled.

Also lately I've been hearing "Here is a customer announcement", which
I would have expected to be for someone specific, like "Frank Bowman,
please go to the office where you lost daughter is waiting" or
something, but this precedes "Please keep your personal belongings
with you ..." etc.