Why not pronounce consonants?

[bigsky]

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.

[dan_bgblue]

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

[bigsky]

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.