[missanne]

Thank you soooo much! Now it makes sense. That clears things up totally for me on the only puzzlement I ever had regarding the “Anointed One”.

[I can has Low Taxes?]

"Thank you soooo much! Now it makes sense. That clears things up totally for me on the only puzzlement I ever had regarding the “Anointed One”."

Pretension. And as much as I like NPRs music coverage, and at least learn things from their political coverage even when I don't agree with it, I do solidly blame NPR for promoting this kind of "And the president of Venezuela, 'UUgoo Chhaves, recently stated."

I find it grating to the ear to force non-English sounds into English to sound "correct." I'm fine with using the "more correct" pronunciation using English sounds, like saying "Ee-ron" instead of "Eye-ran", but I draw the line at putting Spanish clipped Ts or Geman CH into English conversation.

Taliban is spelled طالبان, which equates to "T-L-B-A-N". Written vowels are pronounced longer, unwritten vowels are pronounced shorter. There's no "I", so it's pron

ounced short like "it" or "hit", not "eat" or "heat"