When the announcer called out Hackworth's flight (San Diego with stops in 
Seoul, Vladivostok, Magadan, Anchorage, Juneau, Prince Rupert, Vancouver, 
Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Los Angeles), he 
apparently
decided that it was beneath his dignity, above his abilities, or both to speak 
Korean, Russian, English, French, Coast Salish, and Spanish in the same 
sentence, and so he just hummed into the microphone for a while as if, far from 
being a professional announcer, he were a shy, indifferent vocalist hidden 
within in a vast choir.