No kidding.  If she appeared to have taken lots of speech classes, people would say she was over-polished and distant.

I do understand the criticism, though.  I'm constantly working on eliminating tics from my speech, and I have plenty.  The people around us influence us so much, it's hard to ever get to a point of having great speech patterns and keeping them.

Actually, I have an ex-girlfriend to thank for improving my speech, albeit indirectly.  She was very smart, and very manipulative.  I had to think about exactly what I wanted to say or I was in for an hour argument.  It taught me to reflect for a minute and choose my words carefully.  That in itself cut down on tics.