Why not pronounce consonants?

It’s like listening to drooling idiots, the vocal fry, the uptalk? and the dropping of consonants, say “mow-uhns” for the word “mountains”.

I hear it especially on NPR but also in other media, like tv reporters just starting out.

If a “professional” cannot pronounce a consonant, it’s not worth the aggravation of listening to them.

That stupid habit has not invalided KY YET. We have enough odd speaking habits and word butchering here locally without adding another one.

https://english.stackexchange.com/qu...-certain-words

T-glottalization

It is an affectation on almost every case. Not, perhaps,” often” but cetainly “buh uhn” or button.