When I do my media training sessions a common question is about how the journalist will quote you.
There is a fear that what you say will appear verbatim regardless of repetition, verbal ticks such as using ‘like’ and slips in grammar.
What you have to remember is that very few of us speak with the sort of grammatical precision you’d see printed.
Live news presenters are perhaps the most polished but they are highly experienced and they still don’t always speak perfectly.
We all repeat ourselves, stutter and stumble over our words occasionally. We speak in incomplete sentences or miss words, say ‘um’.
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