‘’//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.
HAHAHA! The Indians are so proud of their English speaking abilities. Their brains, however, don’t work the way OURS do.
This is hilarious. We worked with many Indians when we worked for ARAMCO in the KSA. And those Indians were, supposedly, the brighter ones.//’’
Ah, the girl is being publicly reprimanded because it was intentional. Understand? Indians have been verbally sparring with the english far longer then Americans have is all. Taking the Micky is just a little more subtle when done by Indians. In china the number one is considered the leader number, so eleven is like saying leader leader. Calling their leader eleven is a verbal swipe at communism because their elites were called leaders and now they come to talk capitalism. But don’t let any of that slow you down sport.
As for the "girl" being reprimanded, I doubt that she was a "girl" as they wouldn't put girls on the air. Indian women makes mistakes too, as we all do.
Her error must have been amusing enough to make world news. Her error amused more people than me, I'm sure.
Maybe she will ASK about NAMES and pronunciations the next time she goes on the air and NOT assume that she knows how to pronounce everything.
I was a teacher for many decades and ALWAYS asked about name pronunciation because names CAN be pronounced a variety of ways. Nothing wrong about asking for pronunciation. It shows that a person actually CARES.