Channel 8 anchor in story on trend (Newscasters changing from Anglo to ethnic names)

Las Vegas Review-Journal ^ | 1-27-06 | Norm Clarke

[hispanarepublicana]

I'm a little surprised that Jack Abramoff didn't change his name. What was he thinking?

[timsbella]

Ahahah - I wouldn't want to be a weiner either ;)

[untenured]

I don't see any problem with pronouncing Spanish words correctly, particularly your name.

I agree up to a point. How a name is pronounced should be up to the name's owner by all means. However, I find it irritating when people are speaking in English and they go out of their way to pronounce, say, "Nicaragua" the way the natives do. No one says "Pa-REE" instead of "PAIR-is" when they're talking in English about the capital of France, nor do we expect two, say, Argentines walking down the streets of Buenos Aires speaking in Spanish about Texas to pronounce "Houston" the way the locals do.

There is a certain show-offy political correctness among some wherein they try to pronounce foreign names, especially place names, the way they think foreigners themselves do. Like all political correctness, I find it annoying.

[Skooz]

Is she another one of those reporters who speaks with perfect, accent-free, English until she gets to her name, which she pronounces with an exaggerated accent?

LOL! Yep. Those are annoying beyond comprehension.

[bwteim]

Thanks for that factual information. I will be removing Snopes from my book marks, thus saving valuable RAM, and conferring with you in the future...
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[Skooz]

I think the point the other poster was making is that one day, in the not too distant future, we will wake up and look outside to discover we live in a barrio and our children will have to learn Spanish to go to school.

No one is suggestion that Latinos are a cancer. Just that our culture is slowly evaporating before our eyes.

[mysterio]

Oh the HORROR!! That small dot of breast cancer is no reason to complain! Get it???

So latinos are a cancer on America? Man, you have a serious lack of a filter between your brain and some of the stuff you post. How many posts of yours are going to have to be pulled before you "get it?"

[hispanarepublicana]

Simply having a neighborhood full of Hispanics does not a barrio make. Some of us actually have managed to learn English, even, in the last 300 years our families have been here.

[Skooz]

Simply having a neighborhood full of Hispanics does not a barrio make.

True.

Some of us actually have managed to learn English, even, in the last 300 years our families have been here.

Ah. So you are Americans and your families have become part of the melting pot mosaic of America which has enriched our heritage and helped make America an interesting and vital place with a diverse and energetic culture.

I was referring to those who flood our borders, refuse to assimilate, refuse to learn the English language, refuse to become Americans, and expect the larger culture to embrace them and accomodate their unwillingness to jump into the melting pot and choose, instead, to overwhelm the larger culture until it disappears and looks like home.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Is she another one of those reporters who speaks with perfect, accent-free, English until she gets to her name, which she pronounces with an exaggerated accent?

LOL, you've just described the most annoying nonsense practiced by half the staff of Channels 13 and 2 in Houston.

[Diddle E. Squat]

You're an idiot.

[jiggyboy]

I recall a scholarship that went to the "wrong" person because he was 18 and legally changed his name specifically for that purpose. The college sued him and lost. Hah! Roasted in their own PC juices.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Thanks...LOL...is this the same episode where Kramer, worried about procreating, switches to boxers, and then goes, ahem, without...and 'he out there and loving every minute of it?'

I really have to get a life...

[Diddle E. Squat]

Total nonsense.

[Diddle E. Squat]

I was referring to those who flood our borders, refuse to assimilate, refuse to learn the English language, refuse to become Americans, and expect the larger culture to embrace them and accomodate their unwillingness to jump into the melting pot and choose, instead, to overwhelm the larger culture until it disappears and looks like home.

Except most Latin American (it is far more than just Mexico) immigrants aren't like that, they do assimilate. I grew up and have parents in one of the front lines of all this, Houston. Over the years their neighborhood went from almost all white to majority Hispanic, with otherwise very little change. Still a quiet, low-crime, middle-class neighborhood with the same well kept yards. Life is good.

[Kenny Bunk]

Does being Scottish qualify under affirmative action?

Play the pipes past 10:00PM, and I'll show you some Affirmative re-Action, Sandy.

[Skip Ripley]

I consider myself part Beagle. I'm suing the estate of Charles Schultz for patterning the character "Snoopy" after me without my authorization.