"Jim, just tell me the weather" ?

Myself · Unread post by **Myself** » Wed 13/08/2008 07:02

gllitz wrote:
NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:As far as I'm concerned, Jim is typical of a 'hard-case' New Zealander, so he is the obvious choice of a New Zealand TV Weather presenter.
He uses Kiwi quokwilalizizms, ie.expressions that ordinary kiwi's understand.
What's the problem ?

JohnGaul
NZTS
Yeesh, and you give US a hard time about spelling ..."colloquialisms," I think is what you were looking for...

As an aside I, for one, love them...stuff like "get along like a house on fire," "you're cooking with gas," "....is the bee's knees"...etc...these expressions are great (never heard them until I got here to NZ 8 1/2 years ago). I think they just add to the richness of the language. Should they be used by people like Jim on TV? Certainly...especially if they help get the point across, and it helps to appeal to a wider audience. But things like "mini-tornado"...well...it just isn't cricket, now is it?

From where did you come? None of those phrases are Kiwi, they're all in the UK.

RWood · Unread post by **RWood** » Wed 13/08/2008 07:04

Spelling words correctly helps communication!

I still liked the NBC weather presenter I saw decades ago better than almost everyone I've seen since. He was a meteorologist.

Myself · Unread post by **Myself** » Wed 13/08/2008 07:19

I'd like to see Bob McDavitt present the weather, you'd know you're getting an accurate insight into what really goes on.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Wed 13/08/2008 08:19

'd like to see Bob McDavitt present the weather, you'd know you're getting an accurate insight into what really goes on.

Bob did do TV weather for a while.

I think TV1 weather is generally good, quite informative.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 13/08/2008 09:34

Re Jim,

The problem is that as far as I can tell, a significant number of people who want to understand, cant.

The people must still be watching him otherwise he would be gone.

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Wed 13/08/2008 12:03

I dont know who Jane Clifton is and i dont really care

but for me this is the media scraping the bottom of the barrel cos they have nothing else to do. If you cant actually get the forecast from Jim then you have a screw loose. I'm always able to get the info i need from him and he does it in a way that i understand and i also find entertaining - which is great IMO.

He's a great kiwi icon i think and the majority of people i know enjoy his presentation. Brendon Horan is not a weather person (more like an Amway salesman!) whereas Jim is an aviator and has a genuine interest in the weather.

I find most other weather presenters aspire to being like Jim but dont cut the mustard. That Toni Marsh is ok i reckon as she's developed her own way of presenting and good on her for this. everyone else is an amateur as far as i'm concerned.

As long as jimbo is the weather man for TV1 i will keep watching him, and if you dont like him, turn the telly over....its quite simple really....maybe Jane needs some training on how to use a remote control

southernthrash · Unread post by **southernthrash** » Wed 13/08/2008 16:03

TV1 has far superior graphics to TV3 anyway, and I watch 3 news for everything but the weather, when I flick to one. Brendan Horan was pretty average.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Wed 13/08/2008 19:55

southernthrash wrote: Brendan Horan was pretty average.

...and he was male

JohnGaul
NZTS

southernthrash · Unread post by **southernthrash** » Thu 14/08/2008 11:46

Toni Marsh is nothing to get excited about, I like girls that have all their teeth.

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