Posted on 09/26/2008 7:00:23 PM PDT by PhilosopherStones
Was that just Obambi's "Jenjis Kawn" moment?
John Friggin Kerry 2.
Thanks DUmmie!
You make a claim that you can’t back up and then resort to name calling.
I’m sorry, which “dumb mistake” did I make?
Is that a picture from tonights debate? Scary!
Everybody is spinning this at the moment (at least on Fox), but I do believe that it’s going to be these little things that people will remember.
I’ve been to Pakistan, and Obama doesn’t have the same pronunciation for Pakistan that Pakistanis have.
Obama had two or three Pakistani legal/illegal/student immigrants/transients as friends during his Colombia days. He has travelled to Pakistan, and he said Pakistan how Pakistanis with a proper British enunciation say it on a daily basis.
Which makes sense since his hosts in Pakistan were educated and respectable enough to have their sons travel to NYC in the 1970’s, well before the influx of Pakistanis into the NYC metro area.
This is where you started the Obama defense:
“Actually Obama is using the correct pronunciation for “Pakistan” ...”
Now:
“Obama’s pronunciation is closer to that which Pakistanis use even if not native-speaker correct.”
Just for the record.
To my hearing, there’s enough of a difference that 0 sounds like he’s trying to effect an accent, but not quite getting it.
Based on his saying Pakistan that way he should be made to sit in the corner with no supper and a dunce cap on his head.
Hated it everytime. Elitist, metrosexual, snob.
Also noticed on the debate thread tonight there were alot of trolls. We should smoke them out. Review who they were. If they said Obama did good they are a troll absolutely.
So please respond to my post about the “proper pronunciation” of various place names. And please, justify your response.
Can’t wait.
Here’s my point.
In America, we pronounce “Paris” as “pare-iss”. Of course, in France, they prounouce it “Pare-ee”. There isn’t a “correct” pronunciation, only which language and culture one decides is more important when talking to others of their own culture.
NOTE: When I lived in France for 13 years, I pronounced it “pare-ee”. When I moved back to the States, I returned to pronouncing it “pare-iss”.
Just depends on who you’re trying to impress.
Of “those” places?
So Americans should pronounce “Moscow” as “musk-va”?
Americans should pronounce “Montreal” as “moan-ray-al”?
Americans should pronounce “Des Moines” as “day-mwan”?
Americans should pronounce “Los Angeles” as “lowss-angle-ez”?
Americans should pronounce “Sweden” as “svenska”?
I guess they should also prounonce “Detroit” as “day-twa”.
Or “New Orleans” as “noo-velle-or-lee-ahn”.
Yes, the official song of tonight’s debate:
“Come Mister Tolly Bon, Tolly me Obama”
ZerO! ZEEEEEEERO
Obama Come and I wanna go home
ZerO! ZEEEEEEERO
He got bracelet, I got one too.
Come Mister Tolly Bon, Tolly me Obama
Obama Come and I wanna go home
Excerpt from Huckleberry Finn:
“Why, Huck, doan’ de French people talk de same way we does?”
“No, Jim; you couldn’t understand a word they said- not a single word.”
“Well, now, I be ding-busted! How do dat come?”
“I don’t know; but it’s so. I got some of their jabber out of a book. Spose a man was to come to you and say ‘Polly-voo-franzy’- what would you think?”
“I wouldn’t think nuff’n; I’d take en bust him over de head. Dat is, if he warn’t white. I wouldn’t ‘low no nigger to call me dat.”
“Shucks, it ain’t calling you anything. It’s only saying do you know how to talk French.”
“Well, den, why couldn’t he say it?”
“Why, he is a-saying it. That’s a Frenchman’s way of saying it.”
“Well, it’s a blame’ ridicklous way, en I doan’ want to hear no mo’ ‘bout it. Dey ain’ no sense in it.”
Excerpt from Huckleberry Finn (with N-word redaction, in case this turns into some kind of sensitive PC topic):
“Why, Huck, doan’ de French people talk de same way we does?”
“No, Jim; you couldn’t understand a word they said- not a single word.”
“Well, now, I be ding-busted! How do dat come?”
“I don’t know; but it’s so. I got some of their jabber out of a book. Spose a man was to come to you and say ‘Polly-voo-franzy’- what would you think?”
“I wouldn’t think nuff’n; I’d take en bust him over de head. Dat is, if he warn’t white. I wouldn’t ‘low no n|@@&r to call me dat.”
“Shucks, it ain’t calling you anything. It’s only saying do you know how to talk French.”
“Well, den, why couldn’t he say it?”
“Why, he is a-saying it. That’s a Frenchman’s way of saying it.”
“Well, it’s a blame’ ridicklous way, en I doan’ want to hear no mo’ ‘bout it. Dey ain’ no sense in it.”
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