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Indian TV news anchor sacked after referring to Chinese president Xi Jinping as Eleven Jinping
ABC ^ | 19 Sep 2014

Posted on 09/19/2014 6:36:30 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Indian TV news anchor sacked after referring to Chinese president Xi Jinping as Eleven Jinping

Fri 19 Sep 2014, 8:47pm

An Indian television news anchor has been sacked after referring to Chinese president Xi Jinping as Eleven Jinping, apparently confusing his name for Roman numerals.

Mr Xi left India today after a visit to boost trade and economic ties that have been marred by a long-standing border dispute.

The TV blooper occurred on a show on Doordarshan News on Wednesday.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News
KEYWORDS: eleven; india; xijinping
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To: TigerLikesRooster

And in other news, Wi Tu Lo goes on trial for his role in that horrific air crash...


21 posted on 09/19/2014 7:11:29 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Kenny Bunk

The answer is 9W.
What is the question?


22 posted on 09/19/2014 7:14:09 AM PDT by golux
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To: Squawk 8888
Not a ping.

It's a Jinping.

23 posted on 09/19/2014 7:16:27 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Country Songs Don't Have Happy Endings" - http://youtu.be/W93nc95j1KY)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Eleven Jinping, the successor to Malcolm the Tenth?


24 posted on 09/19/2014 7:21:31 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Kerry, as Obama's plenipotentiary, is a paradox - the physical presence of a geopolitical absence")
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To: TigerLikesRooster

We Tu Lo


25 posted on 09/19/2014 7:24:24 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: cloudmountain

My brain works like that. Except I probably would have called the guy “X-eee” (rhymes with “sexy.”)


26 posted on 09/19/2014 7:28:11 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("OK, youse guys, pair off by threes." - Yogi Berra)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
My brain works like that. Except I probably would have called the guy “X-eee” (rhymes with “sexy.”)

At least your brains works!

Always has; always will--and very well, I might add. :o)

27 posted on 09/19/2014 7:33:22 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: cloudmountain

He is a “She”?


28 posted on 09/19/2014 7:38:27 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Considering most Indians are totally unintelligible how would anyone know........


29 posted on 09/19/2014 8:10:56 AM PDT by njslim
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To: TigerLikesRooster

LOL


30 posted on 09/19/2014 8:15:21 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: golux

How do you get to West Point?


31 posted on 09/19/2014 8:17:01 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (2014-2016. Whether The Republic lives or dies depends on the now-missing integrity of the the GOP.)
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To: Kenny Bunk
BTW, prounce

"Featheringstonechamps? "Cholmondelly,"
"Pall Mall," "St.John," (a last name)

BBC Test for newsreaders.

32 posted on 09/19/2014 8:20:15 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (2014-2016. Whether The Republic lives or dies depends on the now-missing integrity of the the GOP.)
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To: cloudmountain; Jack Hydrazine

33 posted on 09/19/2014 8:26:00 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign, number sign, or octothorpe. ###)
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To: njslim

>>>>> Considering most Indians are totally unintelligible
Really !!!


34 posted on 09/19/2014 8:40:17 AM PDT by jennychase
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To: Kenny Bunk; Uversabound

Do you spell your name with a “V,” Herr Wagner?


35 posted on 09/19/2014 9:25:18 AM PDT by golux
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To: defconw

is it pronounced Zee Jin-Ping?


36 posted on 09/19/2014 9:29:59 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: golux
It's pronounced Ha- VAH- ii,

"but the guy to ask is Mr. Wiener. He is insists it's pronounced "WHY-ner." However, he is a wiener.

Also for FYI, most Indians who work in KSA speak an English Dialect called "Slow Googly." Among my duties there was translating this, usually welly welly wrong, for Texans and Oklahomans.

And never play squash with Pakistanis.

37 posted on 09/19/2014 10:04:39 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (2014-2016. Whether The Republic lives or dies depends on the now-missing integrity of the the GOP.)
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To: bunkerhill7
He is a “She”?

Xi is pronounced SHEE....pronunciation, not gender.

Actually the Chinese don't use personal pronouns.

From Wikipedia: Chinese pronouns (Chinese: 代词; pinyin: dàicí) differ somewhat from pronouns in English and other Indo-European languages.
For instance, there is no differentiation in the spoken language between "he", "she" and "it" (though a written difference was introduced after contact with the West), and pronouns are not inflected to indicate whether they are the subject or object of a sentence.
Mandarin Chinese further lacks a distinction between the possessive adjective ("my") and possessive pronoun ("mine"); both are formed by appending the particle 的 de.

So WHO knows how they differentiate the genders. It's all Greek to me.

38 posted on 09/19/2014 3:01:43 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Bang Ding Ow!


39 posted on 09/19/2014 3:04:12 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: cloudmountain

wo bushi tao


40 posted on 09/19/2014 5:02:09 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")
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