ok, have you been following the news lately? probably as much as me, which isn't much. but today i happened to be watching cnn when they were talking about the starvation crisis in niger. ok, since when was it called "knee-jer"? i've been saying "ny-grr" for, like, ever! what is up with people who suddenly change the way things are pronounced? remember when the 8th planet was called "YOUR ANUS" and not "URINE US"? what about when pianist was actually called "PEE-an-ist" instead of "pee-ANNNNNNN-ist"? what are these fucking people afraid of? who do they think they'll offend when they actually pronounce the word the way it was SUPPOSED to be pronounced? i've heard so many different ways to pronounce "iraq". is it "EYE-rack", "IHR-rock"? what? same with "iran"...i was saying it as it's spelled phonetically "i-RAN" and now i'm hearing "EAR-rahn"....
my friend pointed out that most news casters talk and pronounce things like that particular language is their native tongue. they have perfect inflection, even though i'm sure most of them were brought up speaking english as their sole language, believing that saying words like "taco" and "karate" is knowing another language. it always amuses me.
Thursday, August 11, 2005
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ok, have you been following the news lately? probably as much as me, which isn't much. but today i happened to be watching cnn when they were talking about the starvation crisis in niger. ok, since when was it called "knee-jer"? i've been saying "ny-grr" for, like, ever! what is up with people who suddenly change the way things are pronounced? remember when the 8th planet was called "YOUR ANUS" and not "URINE US"? what about when pianist was actually called "PEE-an-ist" instead of "pee-ANNNNNNN-ist"? what are these fucking people afraid of? who do they think they'll offend when they actually pronounce the word the way it was SUPPOSED to be pronounced? i've heard so many different ways to pronounce "iraq". is it "EYE-rack", "IHR-rock"? what? same with "iran"...i was saying it as it's spelled phonetically "i-RAN" and now i'm hearing "EAR-rahn"....
my friend pointed out that most news casters talk and pronounce things like that particular language is their native tongue. they have perfect inflection, even though i'm sure most of them were brought up speaking english as their sole language, believing that saying words like "taco" and "karate" is knowing another language. it always amuses me.
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