Comments on: Krikorian: People should stop pronouncing Sotomayor’s name correctly.

By: the.j.val

the.j.val — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:43:20 +0000

Hmm, this reminds me of the Texan legislator that proposed all Asian immigrants change their names to something more “American” to make it easier on the rest of us….

By: wounded40

wounded40 — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:35:34 +0000

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By: Cufflink

Cufflink — Sun, 31 May 2009 00:17:30 +0000

Mr. Krikorian, the pronunciation “so-toe-my-OR” (rather than the supposedly more Anglicized “SO-toe-my-er,” which you prefer) isn’t really as hard as you’re making it out to be. It has the same rhythm and stress pattern as the perfectly natural–and appropriate–English sentence, “I am a boor.”

By: parisblues

parisblues — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:16:02 +0000

Oops, I meant NRO of course, not TNR. (It’s got harder to tell the difference for a while there.)

Anyway, perhaps Mr. Krikorian could provide us with some guidance on the “natural” way to pronounce words like “garage,” “dessert” or “Detroit.”

By: parisblues

parisblues — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:09:18 +0000

Has anyone alerted Jim DEEMint or Tom DEElay about TNR’s new pronunciation policy?

By: jrgiguere

jrgiguere — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:52:09 +0000

Remember in “The deer hunter” when the army doctor asks “Is that a russian name?” “No.It’s american.”?

By: pakaal

pakaal — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:28:30 +0000

That’s hysterical! I’ve yet to hear anyone say her name, I just presumed the emphasis would be on the last syllable (rightly enough).

OK Mr. “Cry Korean” (that’s how I’ve decided it’s pronounced in Natural English), thanks for sharing your insight, have a great day.

By: thunderstruck

thunderstruck — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:19:48 +0000

I had to join just to tell you that I love each and every one of you. You have all restored my faith in humanity and relieved my fear that people with a brain had been blitzed into non-existence by a barrage of right wing noise.

As for Mr. Pot Calling the Kettle there, thanks for getting all the smart kids to stand up and yell you into the dunce chair.

By: Deckard

Deckard — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:54:00 +0000

OK, I’ll let you mispronounce her name if everyone gets to pronounce Boehner as what I always call him, ‘boner’. I mean really that’s how I would have pronounced it if I hadn’t ‘deferred’ to his pronunciation. And while we’re at it how about Crapeau being pronouced like it looks crap-you (taking the ‘eau’ as in beauty).

By: MikeD2

MikeD2 — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:15:49 +0000

Oh, I posted that too quick. Of course he would have to be a diversity trainer. Ha, wouldn’t you love to attend such a class hosted by Mr. Amerikorian. Lot’s of clips of Archie Bunker actually taken seriously.

By: MikeD2

MikeD2 — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:13:02 +0000

“Part of our success in assimilation has been to leave whole areas of culture up to the individual, so that newcomers have whatever cuisine or religion or so on they want, limiting the demand for conformity to a smaller field than most other places would.”

I love the “…whatever cuisine or religion or so they want..” part. Might it show just a little disrespect for those other non-American (you know, non-Christian) religions to refer to it as a preference like that of food? What is it this guy does for a living?

By: MikeD2

MikeD2 — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:02:04 +0000

Thanks for your insight Mr. … hmmm, I think I’ll just call you … good-ol-Amerikorian

By: SKdeAnt

SKdeAnt — Thu, 28 May 2009 06:57:34 +0000

Potato. Potato.

By: yhtraccm

yhtraccm — Thu, 28 May 2009 03:48:53 +0000

And according to him, I live in OryGONE and was born in NEW JOYSIE.

By: yhtraccm

yhtraccm — Thu, 28 May 2009 03:48:05 +0000

So he is associated with the conservative Center for Immigration Studies. That organization was founded by the same people who changed other people’s names when they came in at Ellis Island.

By: susanthe

susanthe — Thu, 28 May 2009 03:19:45 +0000

Awesome! I take it to mean that we can now pronounce Boehner the way it’s spelled – BONER, and stop using the misleading pronunciation “Bainer” that Boner came up with so we wouldn’t say BONER.

By: wiley

wiley — Thu, 28 May 2009 03:10:02 +0000

At sadlyno, he’s been dubbed crackwhoreian.

By: Leftside Annie

Leftside Annie — Thu, 28 May 2009 02:13:56 +0000

Jebus. That moronic dweeb has a serious case of IRONY-poor blood.

*shaking head*

By: MapleStreet

MapleStreet — Thu, 28 May 2009 01:56:24 +0000

typed too fast, should have said drawing out the I while accenting the Ran

By: MapleStreet

MapleStreet — Thu, 28 May 2009 01:56:02 +0000

8 Chiroptera Toasterhead,

But would we agree that to pronounce Iran, all one has to do is learn how to pronounce **ONE SINGLE SOUND** which isn’t that bad to pronounc? And if our newscasters have to learn how to speak “accentless” then learning one sound is relatively easy. If nothing else, we should be able to come pretty close (albeit with a heavy American accent) with little effort.

Admittedly, I have trouble pulling out and accenting the first syllagle of Iran. But at least I know the sound the I should get. Not EYE..