But Pocky-stan is where they make Pocky! and Pocky is yummy!
This is one of my biggest pet peeves, especially when he says “Afghanistan” in the usual Americanized manner. It makes no sense whatsoever.
Not pretentious, PC. If one pronounces all place names as the natives do (so Moskova instead of Moscow, Wien instead of Vienna, “pock-e-stahn” for Pakistan, etc.) it’s pretentious. If one only pronounce place names from Muslim and Latin American countries like the natives, it’s political correctness rather than pretension.
He was a pretentious douche all night and it showed clearly.
Spoken and pronounced like a guy who traveled there on an Indonesian passport, thus claiming Indonesian citizenship, to attend a muslim jihadist camp.
This nation- me. I can’t stand listening to him.
What is it with these a-holes? Remember Ted Koppel and Knee-ker-auuugg-whaaaa back in the 80’s?
Yeah. Barry needs to be slapped across the mouth everytime he says that. I’m sure it sounds ridiculous to most REAL Americans.
It was the Norwood-Dingell moment of the debate...
If only it were just pretentious. It’s also arrogant, totalitarian, and anti-American in a way that’s particularly noxious in an American President.
We have a pronunciation for that country in American English, and it’s “Pack-i-stan.”
It isn’t at all about how the natives of that country pronounce it.
I don’t care that you were there, Obama. You’re an American. You’re the President of all Americans. Speak American English.
It’s our country and our language. For the Scolding Pedant-in-Chief to try to school and overrule Americans — ‘No, here is how it’s pronounced, troglodytes — is just another reason I’m counting down the days to when I can punch my bal-LOT.
Didn’t he date a POCK-E-STAHN-E at Columbia?
In all honesty, I don’t have much of a problem with this if that’s the way he’s been saying the country’s name his whole life. I’m from Boston and I say VaMont, not VerMont and Missouri instead of Missura (as my cousins say it).
But Pocky-stan is where they make Pocky! and Pocky is yummy!
"Let me be clear"
"Folks"
"When I came to office I inherited the worst recession since the great depression"
"We should not repeat the same economic policies that got us into this mess in the first place"
I'm sick of him, sick of his cabinet, sick of his economy, sick of his wife and bratty kids. I want him out of office NOW, I hope I get my wish in two weeks.
It’s a legitimate pronunciation (better than corpseman, anyway) but it’s idiotically inconsistent when he also says ‘Afghanistan’ the normal way, instead of ‘off-GAH-nee-stahn.’
It’s not only pretentious, it’s utterly incorerct.