Comments on: Conservatives Call Obama’s Correct Pronounciation Of Pakistan ‘Exotic’ And ‘Annoying’

By: hussein toasterhead

hussein toasterhead — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:40:09 +0000

dipshit Says:

hussein toasterhead:

You disagree with me, so I am a dipshit? Did you wander over from Fox News? Are ad hominem attacks just more fun than valid arguments, or what? My point was that I don’t think Obama’s pronunciation is the “correct” one as so many are asserting. That’s not to say it’s incorrect either, but it implies that the more standard American pronunciation is somehow incorrect, and I simply don’t agree.

October 13th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
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Wow. Talk about a double standard.

What’s wrong with my calling you a dipshit? I mean, just because you’re not the standard American definition of dipshit doesn’t make you any less of a dipshit, or me wrong for labeling you as such. If you feel that there’s no reason to pronounce words correctly, then I feel that there’s no reason to spell words correctly. Hence, your name is dipshit, dipshit.

By: blha

blha — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:18:01 +0000

I wondered how long before Obama got ridiculed for pronouncing the BAA with ALIF correctly in the word Pakistan, which is more correctly pronounced BAHkistahn if you go by the Arabic spelling of:
???????

Reading the above word from right to left.
BAA-ALIF-KAA-SIN-TAA-ALIF-NUN

Actually the language of Pakistan is Urdu, and like Persian it has the p sound missing in Arabic. it also has the hard d and t, which Arabic doesn’t.
Obama’s pronunciation is very close, I would however say it’s better pronounced like Park-is-taan

By: mistaketv

mistaketv — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:31:26 +0000

hussein toasterhead:

You disagree with me, so I am a dipshit? Did you wander over from Fox News? Are ad hominem attacks just more fun than valid arguments, or what? My point was that I don’t think Obama’s pronunciation is the “correct” one as so many are asserting. That’s not to say it’s incorrect either, but it implies that the more standard American pronunciation is somehow incorrect, and I simply don’t agree. I just find it interesting from a linguistic perspective is all; it has absolutely no bearing on my liberal politics, and my vanishingly minor annoyance at Obama’s choice of pronunciation doesn’t diminish my affection for him or his ideas one whit.

By: KayInMaine

KayInMaine — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:53:23 +0000

Let me guess….”Thinking” knows “everything” about Sarah Palin, you know, the woman he ‘just met’ a month ago and would never admit that she was funded by right wing evangelical militiamen in Alaska?

By: thomthum

thomthum — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:13:59 +0000

most people i know who say nuke-u-ler also have trouble with a-loo-nim-mum. god help sarah mascara or lonesome george if someone comes up with an aluminium nuclear weapon!

By: laurajsmith

laurajsmith — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:28:00 +0000

What’s annoying is ignorance!
Learning is easy and free….you just have to be open and willing….

By: dbadass

dbadass — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:26:53 +0000

I hate to have to point out thinkings mistake… No one was critiquing the post just pointed out that it didn’t really fit the style of our other whack job friend.

By: the Lone Voice of Reason

the Lone Voice of Reason — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:55:59 +0000

Education

Exotic and annoying

By: boudin

boudin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:31:03 +0000

digtriad.com | Greensboro, High Point, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

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Palin Drops The “N” Bomb With A Little Pronunciation Help
Nuclear, nukular or new-clear….either way, Sarah Palin was able to pronounce the word correctly, with a little help from the teleprompter.

With so many hard-lined moments in the political world, it’s rare to see an unconventional moment as researched by CNN’s Jeanne Moos.

‘Nuclear’ has had political figures tripping over their tongues for many years. George Bush has often pronounced ‘nuclear’ as ‘nukular’, but Sarah Palin planned ahead.

Some eagle eyes spotted her teleprompter reading ‘new-clear’ as a pronunciation crunch [sic]. The RNC publishers also inadvertently left the speech-helper in the pamphlet!

Even though she nailed it during her RNC speech, she wasn’t so lucky in her first national appearance. At that time she followed Bush’s use of ‘nukular’.

Video Jeanne Moos’s coverage of the light-hearted discovery

Source: CNN

http://www.digtriad.com/includes/tools/print.aspx?storyid=110262

By: a0d7fzz

a0d7fzz — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:02:40 +0000

Great to use correct pronunciation and annoy republicans at the same time. Two birds with one stone.

By: mdbyrne

mdbyrne — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:17:57 +0000

Reading the above word from right to left.
BAA-ALIF-KAA-SIN-TAA-ALIF-NUN

By: thinking

thinking — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:17:04 +0000

dbadass, turns out i did mis-spell ‘tweek’ your spelling is correct. so, i must be ignorant and stupid because i sometimes mis-spell a word and always type in the lower case. you are superior to me, because, unlike me, you have never made a mistake,and,apparently always type properly.i bow to your ability. it always amazes me how some people have to point out the errors of others in order to make themselves feel better.they are knaves, look it up.

By: thinking

thinking — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:54:28 +0000

i am back; keith, i do not disagree that nader and kucinich are men of character!!! good examples. but you are wrong on the 13 states. only 11 left the union, virginia,north carolina,south carolina, georgia, tennesee, arkansas,texas, alabama, mississippi, louisiana and kentucky. missouri,maryland,delaware,new jersey and kansas all held elections where the proposition to leave the union was defeated. teddy roosevelt started the ‘bull moose’party AFTER he was president,because he did not like the job that william howard taft did as a republican president and tried to get the nomination from a sitting president. both taft and roosevelt were defeated by woodrow wilson in the 1912 election, roosevelt was president from 1901-1909,he became president upon mckinley’s death and won the presidency on his own in 1904.taft was elected in 1908 and served from 1909-to 1913. wilson won easily in 1912,against both roosevelt and taft. also, the ELEVEN states that did leave were bastions of the democrats until 100 years after the civil war.they were called the solid south.the black people that did vote [or could vote]always voted republican, until franklin roosevelt became president, LBJ solidified the black vote for democrats by signing the civil rights bill in 1964. the bill was passed because republican senators from the north voted for it. the democratic senators from the south voted against this bill.in the civil war west virginia became a state, it was made up of counties from virginia that did not want to leave the union.however, missouri, delaware and maryland had many men who fought for the south [as did men from other states that did not leave the union] but their states did not leave the union. many southern men left their states and fought for the north, including general john buford, who on the first day at gettysburg was responsible for saving the ‘high ground’ thus insuring a northern victory, and saving the union from defeat. he was from kentucky, and had a brother who was a confederate general.as a side note, i probably agree with nader on lots of issues, kucinich on some, but they indeed believe in what they do, although neither can be considered national leaders. as for me being mr.pee, i’m not. as for my lower case typing, i have found that on both conservative and liberal sites it is made fun of only when i don’t agree with the points of others. it is never brought up if i agree. i am a liberal,in fact very liberal, on some issues,and conservative on others. i never voted for anyone with the last name of bush, i think the iraq war was a mistake from the begining and said so at the time. i served in vietnam but can’t stand mccain,and will not vote for him just because we are both veterans, that is not enough reason for me.it does not bother me that some make fun of my typing skills, it says more about them then it does me.i am wary of all politicians, and don’t trust any of them, be they democrat or republican.i have found that most are spineless little wimps whose views ahift like the wind. neither party has a done a good job in quite some time. i hope if obama is elected president he wins by a landslide, and i hope he earns my trust by becoming a great president. i hope i am wrong about some of my concerns about him. i hate partisanship, and want a united country, not one where we are all yelling at each other about everything. honest and good men can disagree with civility. i will close by saying this, we have to become more united, we have to stop the name calling,its easy to do that on the internet, a little harder to do in person. it is the mark of a coward. good day.

By: hussein toasterhead

hussein toasterhead — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:40:38 +0000

dipshittv Says:

The way Obama pronounces Pakistan annoys me too. I don’t think it’s incorrect necessarily, just kind of affected. Are you saying “pack-is-tan” is incorrect, because I beg to differ. Of course, I don’t think it means anything or matters in any way; it’s just annoying, just like Tollybahn.
October 8th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
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Good point, dipshittv! I mean, why should we even bother to say the correct names for things? If I want to pronounce your name “dipshittv” that’s my right as an American! Who gets to decide what’s “right” and “wrong?” That’s so ELITIST!

By: ctalk

ctalk — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:14:49 +0000

Real Americans, regular folks, need to ignore and tune these conservative dorks out.

By: dbadass

dbadass — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:09:30 +0000

the use of all lowercase doesn’t seem to fit and the spelling is better but still the reference to “tweeking” a conservative site points strongly in that direction based on some lame ass explainations posted at the afore mentioned bullshit location.

By: bestradio

bestradio — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:09:14 +0000

Since when did being educated become such a bad thing. OH MY GOD, HE DIDNT PRONOUNCE IT LIKE THE REST OF THE YOKELS… HE MUST BE A MUOOOSLUMM TERRRROST.

If this is how a majority of our country thinks… god help us all. Oh wait, they believe he is on their side too.

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By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:55:10 +0000

stinking says:
he was a muslim as a young boy, he does not dispute that

This demonstrates how completely ignorant you are and how ignorant your sources of information are. His school in Indonesia was not Muslim. Only some of the students were Muslim and the teachings were not religious. He has, of course, always disputed this.

BTW, Teddy Roosevelt’s domestic policies were so progressive that he could not win the Republican nomination and had to start his own party. Lincoln was so far to the left that 13 states left the union after his election. These 13 form the base of the Republican Party today. They flipped because they so strongly opposed the equal treatment for Blacks.

Men of character today include Nadar and Kucinich.

Dbadass, you are right, it could well be Mr. Pee.

By: Wayne A. Schneider

Wayne A. Schneider — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:24:11 +0000

Thanks, db. I enjoyed all that. I really wish people would stop believing what Limbaugh (both of them), Savage, Hannity, O’Reilly, and the rest of the Republican Noise Machine spew about Obama. It’s mostly lies, designed to play on their worst fears. My guess is that it’s because someone very different from themselves will be the next president. And that scares the crap out of them.

By: dbadass

dbadass — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:57:35 +0000

Thinking, what makes you think you tweaked anyone or thing. I smell the smell of that bullshit site that never has any comments. Does Daryll still whoop your ass with some amusing stuff now and again? Run along my self deluded friend…