Don LeMon Searches for Black Women Actually Voting for Kamala

Don LeMon did "man" on the street interviews with black women, asking them who they're voting for.

The results can't be what he was hoping for, though I guess he did manufacture a viral video for shimself.

Women on Trump vs. Harris…🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/bi4sItJy15
— Don Lemon (@donlemon) August 20, 2024

Obviously, these women are not representative of black women generally, who are the most gonzo Democrat voters of all. Don LeMon needs money, and he needs viral videos to keep his profile up, given that he doesn't really have a job. He may hate white people, but he will put out videos to get white people to click if it makes him some money.

Still, there's something going on here.

Don LeMon attempts to shame a white man as a racist for not knowing how Kamala is pronouncing her name this week.

Teaching a Trump supporter how to pronounce “Kamala” 📝 pic.twitter.com/hSDiJVoQWN
— Don Lemon (@donlemon) August 21, 2024

Let me explain why people say ka-MA-la. First of all, because Kamala herself says it that way sometimes. It depends on her feelz for that week.

Second of all, because the much more well-known name "Kamal" has a stress on the second syllable. Ka-MAL.

Thirdly, people probably can't articulate this, but they know when it comes to foreign words or names their first thought about how to pronounce a foreign word or name is wrong. English tends to put the accent on the first syllable. This is not the rule for many foreign languages. Some major foreign languages, like Spanish and Italian, tend to accent the penultimate syllable.

One cool thing about Italian is if you just train yourself to stress the second-to-last syllable, you suddenly sound like you're speaking Italian like a native. Motocicleta (motorcycle)? Just say mo-to-chee-CLAY-ta, and bang, you're speaking Italian.

Anyway, even though most Americans can't formulate this rule of thumb, they still know it without knowing how to explain it, so when confronted with a foreign name or word they do a double-think: They want to say KA-ma-la, but figure it's a foreign name so the first-syllable pronunciation is wrong, so they "correct" themselves put it on the second syllable.

Which also then comports with how they know Kamal is pronounced -- ka-MAL.

"Hypercorrection" is a common mistake when attempting to pronounce foreign words correctly. Sometimes our rules of English pronunciation actually do tell us how to pronounce a foreign word correctly -- but we guess that the English way of pronunciation is the wrong way, so we "hypercorrect" ourselves into pronouncing the foreign word wrong.

A lot of people say coup-de-GRAH, figuring that the last word in "coup de grace" is pronounced like the "grah" in foie gras. But that's a different word. The "grace" in "coup de grace" is an almost exact cognate of the English word "grace." The French "grace" is pronounced "grahs." Like English, except the "a" is short instead of long.

That's a hypercorrection.

Are people "racist" for that hypercorrection?

No, they're only racist when they hypercorrect a word or name from a privileged racial or culturally group.

In other words: Native born Americans are trying to respect foreign people and taking their level-best guess at the Tower of Babel languages now spoken in America.

But if we guess wrong, well: RACIST. You're trying to make her sound foreign.

Well she is foreign, isn't she? Her name is obviously a foreign name, or one her leftwing Marxist parents made up to give her some exotic cultural cache.

That's why people are defaulting to a rough idea of how to properly pronounce foreign words.

But we are all racists because when we let in millions upon millions of foreigners into our country, out of the goodness of our hearts, we do not immediate plunge ourselves into learning the ins-and-outs of the pronunciations -- and customs, and religions, etc. -- of the literally hundreds of foreign languages and dialects and cultures we have allowed in our country.

Basically, every time we allow in a foreigner, we have obligated ourselves to hundreds of hours of homework to make that foreigner feel as if he never left his home shithole country, and when we skip that homework, we're being Racist Oppressors.

Do your homework, Bigots.

#DoTheWork.

And keep letting in millions of immigrants who will make further and further demands on you to do hundreds of hours of homework to adapt yourselves to their cultures. All of them.

(By the way, even though Sicilians may drop the final letter and stress the final syllable -- saying pie-SAN -- the full Italian word "paesano" usually has as stress on the PIE, the first syllable. There's a rule that you don't stress the syllables of common endings added to words. "-ano" is added to "paese" -- country, countryside -- to make paesano, countryman. The "-ano" is a common suffix and doesn't get the accent; the last syllable before it gets the accent.

This is important in pronouncing verbs. "Vedere" -- to see -- is pronounced "VAY-day-ray," not vay-DAY-ray, because the whole "-ere" ending is the infinitive ending for verbs, and so doesn't get stressed. You chop that ending off when you conjugate it, so it would be weird to have to re-calculate where to put the stress on all the conjugated forms, because they all have different numbers of syllables. Instead, the last syllable before the verb ending gets stressed.

When Italian breaks this rule and puts the stress on a different syllable, it usually helps you out by providing an accent in the spelling of the word. Their word for authority, autorià, tells you to put the stress on the last syllable by putting an accent mark right on the last syllable.

This is all homework, but you don't have to do it, because Italians are white, and white people do not have culture at all, so you cannot be guilty of cultural appropriation with white culture, as they have no culture, and you also do not have to respect that culture, because it does not exist.

#DotheWork, people. #BeBetter.)

Update: People say there's an even bigger reason people say "KaMAla" -- there was a pro wrestler named Kamala the Ugandan, and he pronounced it with the stress on the second syllable.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:00 PM

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1 Morning, Ace!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 23, 2024 12:00 PM (2UnvF)

2 Otters called

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 23, 2024 12:00 PM (2UnvF)

3 Sponge! Top ten anyway

Posted by: Boswell at August 23, 2024 12:02 PM (K+UlC)

4 I call her Ka-MAL-ah because there was a fun wrestler back in the day named Kamala the Giant and that's how he pronounced it.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at August 23, 2024 12:02 PM (k9OZB)

5 morning, duke!

Posted by: ace at August 23, 2024 12:03 PM (KRtlO)

6 Hoe do you pronounce LaQu'isha?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 23, 2024 12:03 PM (LkLld)

7 If the ‘not allowed to look her in the eye’ story about her less important staff is true then we have a true psychopath running for President.

Posted by: polynikes at August 23, 2024 12:03 PM (B1dzx)

8 >>>4 I call her Ka-MAL-ah because there was a fun wrestler back in the day named Kamala the Giant and that's how he pronounced it.

well there you go! She probably is mispronouncing her own stupid name.

Posted by: ace at August 23, 2024 12:03 PM (KRtlO)

9 I guess all those days I said "Car-Mella get down there" makes me a raciest bigot.

Posted by: Some guy named Willie at August 23, 2024 12:03 PM (rn2/h)

10 Ra-vi-O-li

Hey, it works!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 23, 2024 12:03 PM (2UnvF)

11 People pronounce it "Ka-MA-la" because they watched "Kamala the Ugandan Giant" in the WWF, and that's how his ring name was pronounced.

Posted by: XTC at August 23, 2024 12:03 PM (UnA8+)

12 You don't want to know what I call her

Posted by: It's me donna at August 23, 2024 12:04 PM (IyPmt)

13 Mornin', Ace.

Linguistic Ace is the best Ace.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2024 12:04 PM (v6JzV)

14 When Woke LOTR is produced the second in command of the Nazgul will be a female wraith named Kamala.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 23, 2024 12:04 PM (FfSAJ)

15 Kamala?
With two Gs?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 23, 2024 12:04 PM (U4Bzp)

16 I kind of expected the bearded guy Lemon was condescending to was gonna punch him. I would have wanted to, bigly.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 23, 2024 12:04 PM (xCA6C)

17 6 Hoe do you pronounce LaQu'isha?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 23, 2024 12:03 PM (LkLld)

"$20, Same as in Town".

Posted by: XTC at August 23, 2024 12:04 PM (UnA8+)

18 A-A Ron

Posted by: polynikes at August 23, 2024 12:04 PM (B1dzx)

19 >>>Hey, it works!

yup. It's kind of like magic, all of a sudden you sound Italian.

buonGIORno!

Posted by: ace at August 23, 2024 12:05 PM (KRtlO)

20 Just call her Harris and move on, Don. She’s not anyone’s friend; she’s a politician.

Posted by: EveR at August 23, 2024 12:05 PM (MUpk6)

21 Again, there is f**king tape of Kambala herself pronouncing it any of four different ways.

I mean, I pronounce it Stupid Marxist C**t, but that's just me and my Bronx upbringing, which is my lived experience that you cannot question.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 23, 2024 12:05 PM (XV/Pl)

22 DL: Can you say period?

Bearded guy: Yes.

DL: Say period.

BG: Gay asswipe.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 23, 2024 12:05 PM (xCA6C)

23 Hold up -- Ace can assign HOMEWORK now?!?

Posted by: Doof at August 23, 2024 12:05 PM (Jk6ck)

24 Hi Ace
So happy the DNC snooze fest is done and can't wait for this afternoon's announcement.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 23, 2024 12:05 PM (t/2Uw)

25 I kind of expected the bearded guy Lemon was condescending to was gonna punch him. I would have wanted to, bigly.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 23, 2024 12:04 PM (xCA6C)

I kinda thought the same thing. Lemon needs knocked the fuck out. He is such a turd

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 23, 2024 12:05 PM (NtVYv)

26 🎁

Posted by: Don Black at August 23, 2024 12:05 PM (/7KEl)

27 Shit, I think I learned something. Not why I come here.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 23, 2024 12:06 PM (0jOr6)

28 abbonDANza!

Posted by: ace at August 23, 2024 12:06 PM (KRtlO)

29 The best interview is when he corrects the guy that says the economy is bad.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 23, 2024 12:06 PM (dDSBl)

30 Just look in the mirror, Don! Especially in that wonderful summer frock!

Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 23, 2024 12:06 PM (c39uV)

31 >>> 7 If the ‘not allowed to look her in the eye’ story about her less important staff is true then we have a true psychopath running for President.
Posted by: polynikes at August 23, 2024 12:03 PM (B1dzx)

If she runs a basement campaign just like Brandon, she won't have to worry about any of the peasants looking directly at her.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 23, 2024 12:06 PM (FnneF)

32 Howdy Ace.
Actually it's pronounced Throat Warbler Mangrove

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 23, 2024 12:06 PM (qKpsC)

33 Just call her Toots. Problem solved.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at August 23, 2024 12:06 PM (g8Ew8)

34 Funny how so many of these race activists have white partners. It's almost like they aren't serious.

Posted by: ryukyu at August 23, 2024 12:06 PM (+MiY0)

35 20 Just call her Harris and move on, Don. She’s not anyone’s friend; she’s a politician.
Posted by: EveR at August 23, 2024 12:05 PM (MUpk6)

Right... Everyone says Trump not Donald.. Lets treat her the same.. Harris... Although like I've said I have another name for her.

Posted by: It's me donna at August 23, 2024 12:06 PM (IyPmt)

36 Pffft, invaders. Speak English. Or go home. Preferably both.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2024 12:06 PM (J2vNu)

37 Anyway, even though most Americans can't formulate this rule of thumb, they still know it without knowing how to explain it, so when confronted with a foreign name or word they do a double-think: They want to say KA-ma-la, but figure it's a foreign name so the first-syllable pronunciation is wrong, so they "correct" themselves put it on the second syllable.
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In a vacuum, probably.

But this isn't a vacuum. Newstalkers and Harris herself have been saying "ka-MA-lah" for half a decade now. It was the normal pronunciation until a few days ago when they all decided to make it into some sort of weird Kafka trap.

Fuck 'em. What's with politicians and first names anyway? Specifically the Dems? He wasn't "Mitt," he was Romney. He isn't "Donald," he's Trump.

But it's Joe and Kamala all the way down. Fuck 'em.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2024 12:06 PM (HnUIn)

38 Don Lemon's the guy who makes people smell his ball-stink, right?

Posted by: Don Black at August 23, 2024 12:06 PM (/7KEl)

39 Don should find more people to condescend to. That could be his niche. Getting punched in the face sometimes would be worth a lot.

Posted by: huerfano at August 23, 2024 12:07 PM (VGOMa)

40 I call her Mrs. Emhoff. easy peasy.

Posted by: IC - #FJB at August 23, 2024 12:07 PM (YiKO5)

41 I've heard Kamala pronounce coyote, doing her best Obama impression, "Kai-yo-taaay". She can sit down and shut up.

But nothing will ever top Pok-I-Stan.

Posted by: Ktgreat at August 23, 2024 12:07 PM (ei7q6)

42 How should I pronounce "sugartits?"

Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 23, 2024 12:07 PM (bNf8H)

43 >>>Howdy Ace.
Actually it's pronounced Throat Warbler Mangrove

it's spelled Luxury Yacht, tho.

Posted by: ace at August 23, 2024 12:07 PM (KRtlO)

44 This is all homework, but you don't have to do it, because Italians are white, and white people do not have culture at all, so you cannot be guilty of cultural appropriation with white culture, as they have no culture, and you also do not have to respect that culture, because it does not exist.
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All that art and architecture and music beg to differ.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2024 12:07 PM (HnUIn)

45 Key & Peele

https://tinyurl.com/bdze4yvb

Torque (Construction Noise) Lewith

Posted by: JackStraw at August 23, 2024 12:07 PM (LkLld)

46 I like calling her Mrs. emhoff.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 23, 2024 12:08 PM (dDSBl)

47 None of this is real. This is just a weird attempt at making a trap for people.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2024 12:08 PM (HnUIn)

48 I've mentioned this before, but at my last job I worked with an Indian guy from the UK. He had a two-syllable Indian first name, and some people pronounced it with the stress on the first syllable, and some on the second.

So, once I asked him which was the proper pronunciation, and he said he didn't really know. And he was so used to hearing both that he really didn't care.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2024 12:08 PM (v6JzV)

49 I thought her name was pronounced Kumswalla? I do have tinnitus in my defense.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at August 23, 2024 12:08 PM (imd7k)

50 Here’s the thing, if you want to be put in charge of spending $6.5 trillion a year, nobody own you a f’ing thing.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 23, 2024 12:08 PM (0jOr6)

51 I pronounce it Camel Toe to really confuse people.

Posted by: nckate at August 23, 2024 12:08 PM (4bYb7)

52 I kind of expected the bearded guy Lemon was condescending to was gonna punch him. I would have wanted to, bigly.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 23, 2024

***
I'd like to think I'd have walked away. Probably not; I'm too polite. But if he'd caught me on the wrong day . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2024 12:08 PM (J2vNu)

53 Crazy Commie also works

Posted by: Zeera the ungoverened at August 23, 2024 12:08 PM (gyfRj)

54 Yes, use only Harris. Using her first name is silly. Like Hillary. As someone said, she is not our friend.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 23, 2024 12:08 PM (t/2Uw)

55 hey that italian next to last syllable thing is real
huh

Posted by: Don Black at August 23, 2024 12:09 PM (/7KEl)

56 Sometimes I believe an inference can be made as to the level of jiggery-pokery in our electoral process, that appears to be pretty spectacular by some accounts, and the fact the politicians seem to be phoning it in in recent years, if not decades. If it's in the bag, campaigning can only mostly offer a potential to make a major gaffe and besides, who wants to be around all those voters? Why subject yourself to the slings and arrows of the press? And in their temperament and credentialism they believe it is beneath them to have to make their case anyhow.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 23, 2024 12:09 PM (bTxgO)

57 You have to put the emPHAsis on the correct sylLAble!

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 23, 2024 12:09 PM (MeG8a)

58 >>>47 None of this is real. This is just a weird attempt at making a trap for people.

yes, it's part of the weird attempt to create a System of Racial Protocols whereby we have to through a series of steps to confer kingly dignity on whoever we're talking to/about, if they're of a privileged racial group.

Posted by: ace at August 23, 2024 12:09 PM (KRtlO)

59 Willie Brown's Cumdumpster

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 23, 2024 12:09 PM (qKpsC)

60 >>> 24 Hi Ace
So happy the DNC snooze fest is done and can't wait for this afternoon's announcement.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 23, 2024 12:05 PM (t/2Uw)

Well, *I* for one am not happy; that bunch of worthless slackers didn't burn ANYTHING down.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 23, 2024 12:09 PM (FnneF)

61 This is all homework, but you don't have to do it, because Italians are white, and white people do not have culture at all, so you cannot be guilty of cultural appropriation with white culture, as they have no culture, and you also do not have to respect that culture, because it does not exist.
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All that art and architecture and music beg to differ.

They jus' stole it from the black Africans. All them Eye-talian homos was gettin' busy wit da Greek homos.

Posted by: Reverend Al at August 23, 2024 12:09 PM (xCA6C)

62 Obviously, these women are not representative of black women generally, who are the most gonzo Democrat voters of all.
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I'm not so sure of that. Of the ones I've known, black women are more binary. Some are "gonzo Democrat voters" and some are non-political and don't care. If backed into a corner the latter will usually make mouth-noises about loving the Party, but they just don't care.

The most consistently aggressive and combative loyal Party members are, in my experience, the AWFLs. Unshakable, brutally self-reinforcing loyalty no matter what.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2024 12:09 PM (HnUIn)

63 >>>hey that italian next to last syllable thing is real
huh

always trust content from ace

Posted by: ace at August 23, 2024 12:09 PM (KRtlO)

64 See, here I thought it was because English tended to be iambic in meter, and we tend to stress the even-numbered syllables in a phrase.

... with the occasional dactyl thrown in for spice. *Gives "syllables" the side eye*

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 23, 2024 12:09 PM (hB7mE)

65 It's interesting that Kamala's father didn't show up for the DNC, isn't it?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 23, 2024 12:09 PM (uxCna)

66
Well, *I* for one am not happy; that bunch of worthless slackers didn't burn ANYTHING down.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 23, 2024 12:09 PM (FnneF)

I was most disappointed...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 23, 2024 12:10 PM (IyPmt)

67 What about 5th grade boys' common gutter talk? Where's the stress?

Posted by: SFGoth at August 23, 2024 12:10 PM (KAi1n)

68 So, Le’Mon is the proper.

Posted by: 13times at August 23, 2024 12:10 PM (RgvhD)

69 I pronounce Kamala as asshole.

Posted by: Cosda at August 23, 2024 12:10 PM (IVL1t)

70 @45

>>Key & Peele

Nothing is funnier than Jackmerius Tacktheritrix, nothing.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 23, 2024 12:10 PM (XV/Pl)

71 Hoe do you pronounce LaQu'isha?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 23, 2024

***
Don' you call me no ho!

Posted by: Ho on the Street at August 23, 2024 12:10 PM (J2vNu)

72 buon apeTITo

Posted by: ace at August 23, 2024 12:10 PM (KRtlO)

73 Let’s Go Iris !!

Posted by: polynikes at August 23, 2024 12:10 PM (B1dzx)

74 Ka-MAL-la is almost certainly how it's properly pronounced in India. That would be consistent with how Ka-MAL is pronounced. Nobody says KA-mal.

Indeed, up until maybe 2 months ago, it was always pronounced Ka-MAL-la by almost everyone, including sometimes Kumswala herself.

The sudden change in pronunciation was pure gaslighting to find something to trip up and disparage normal average Americans.

Fuck KA-ma-la through the mouth with a 14-inch oozing monkeypox dick dipped in rat poison attached to a 350-pound junkie hobo who hasn't showered in 3 months. And make her pay $20 for it.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 23, 2024 12:10 PM (iFTx/)

75 I finally got all the way through Tucker's interview on Big Pharma. It's really amazing. And I am on board with siccing RFK Jr on them

https://tinyurl.com/3tyu4bne

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 23, 2024 12:10 PM (dDSBl)

76 65 It's interesting that Kamala's father didn't show up for the DNC, isn't it?
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 23, 2024 12:09 PM (uxCna)

Ka-MA-la has daddy issues, and we're all going to pay.

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at August 23, 2024 12:11 PM (qUkBO)

77 Well, *I* for one am not happy; that bunch of worthless slackers didn't burn ANYTHING down.

Right?

Posted by: Archimedes at August 23, 2024 12:11 PM (xCA6C)

78 yes, it's part of the weird attempt to create a System of Racial Protocols whereby we have to through a series of steps to confer kingly dignity on whoever we're talking to/about, if they're of a privileged racial group.
Posted by: ace at August 23, 2024 12:09 PM (KRtlO)
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Perhaps, but I strongly suspect the motivation is the opposite. It's not about elevating the dignity of the discussed person, it's about degrading and humiliating the person doing the discussing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2024 12:11 PM (HnUIn)

79 DL: madamemayhem, how do you pronounce VP Harris first name?
Me: I don't.
DL: you... Don't? You don't ever say her name?
Me: nope. I just call her the cackling c*not and everyone knows who I mean.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 23, 2024 12:11 PM (4XwPj)

80 I appreciated the woman who said she's not voting for Comma-la because she's fake and phony. I also think it's kind of condescending for Don Lemon to say, "You do know what a comma is? Uhhh, no, duh. He's just really dumb white guy/sarc. Why not say "You say it like you say "Comma" and add and la on it.

He smiled at the end and laughed, when he could have done that without asking the stupid questions and it would have been more amusing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 23, 2024 12:11 PM (dTTBf)

81 Hoe do you pronounce LaQu'isha?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 23, 2024

***
La-Kee-[glottal stop]-shaw?

(Hard on the throat. Just leave the glottal stop out)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2024 12:11 PM (J2vNu)

82 Second of all, because the much more well-known name "Kamal" has a stress on the second syllable. Ka-MAL.

He goes by "Ataturk" now.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2024 12:11 PM (v6JzV)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2024 12:11 PM (J2vNu)

84 It's pronounced har-RIS, you mental-deficient racists!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 23, 2024 12:11 PM (MDua2)

85 Latín infitnitives are tricky - second conjugation is long e -ere so stress goes on the second to last syllable (the “e” in -“ere”

, third conjugation is short e -ere so the stress falls back one syllable to before the -ere ending, but most texts don’t mark a long or short e so you just have to memorize which is which.

Fortunately no one really speaks Latin anymore, except for, ahem, some weirdos.

Posted by: Knemon at August 23, 2024 12:12 PM (doxvW)

86 Lemon is lucky that guy listened peacefully to his condescending instructions. That could have earned him a beat down, or at least a little rough attitude adjustment.

Posted by: RM at August 23, 2024 12:12 PM (WXucK)

87 You can't pronounce cumswallower's name correctly! You're rayciss!

Why the fuck do you think I care HOW the cvnts name is pronounced.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 23, 2024 12:12 PM (Mc7gB)

88 I really hope Democrats make a big stink whenever someone "mispronounces" her name.

I'm sure voters cant wait to have 4 years of being called a racist for every "hot take" the media comes up with.

Posted by: Blago at August 23, 2024 12:12 PM (wMRY8)

89 The fraud will be spectacular

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 23, 2024 12:12 PM (y1Cv5)

90 It's spelled Kamala, but it's pronounced Nickelfucking Whore.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 23, 2024 12:12 PM (2UnvF)

91 I don't think this works with cappicola but then I've only heard Americans say that word.

but then, sicilians stress the last syllable when they chop off the final syllable -- gabaGOOL

Posted by: ace at August 23, 2024 12:12 PM (KRtlO)

92 ...hey, is Don Laymon a biologist? Then how the fck does he know if he's interviewing a man or a woman???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 23, 2024 12:13 PM (FnneF)

93 Ignorant people also say tay-a-tay for tête-à-tête [it really is said TET] because they think all French accent marks make a long-A sound as in fiancée.

Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 23, 2024 12:13 PM (c39uV)

94 You've spent the better part of the last two decades telling me that I'm evil and racist for my political views.

I don't care about how you want me to say "Kamala." You can't hold that accusation over my head because you've already leveled it at me.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 23, 2024 12:13 PM (B9Prs)

95 Just call her Harris.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 23, 2024 12:13 PM (63Dwl)

96 sicilians chop off the last syallable alot

"Capisce" (with the final e sounded as "ay") becomes what we're more accustomed to hearing in movies, "capeesh"

Posted by: ace at August 23, 2024 12:13 PM (KRtlO)

97 Wait...Don Lemon still has a job?

Posted by: NR Pax at August 23, 2024 12:13 PM (5NvDA)

98 What about 5th grade boys' common gutter talk? Where's the stress?
Posted by: SFGoth at August 23, 2024

***
Since most of that is four-letter, one-syllable words, there's no stress at all.

Long terms? "F**K" is always pronounced as if it's in capitals. "Mother -F***K-er!!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2024 12:14 PM (J2vNu)

99 Lemon leaves out all the black people who mispronounce her name too.
I've heard Carmela (no, that's Mrs. Soprano)
Camelia (no, that's a flower)

But that's okay, it's just those awful white males!

Posted by: PJU at August 23, 2024 12:14 PM (G1dq6)

100 KuntALLah just rolls off the tongue.

Posted by: kathysaysso at August 23, 2024 12:14 PM (tYTvT)

101 Kalama, a small town in SW Washington. Pronounced (ka-LAM-ma)

Posted by: Rex B at August 23, 2024 12:14 PM (592Pr)

102 I suppose he'd work on my pronunciation as well.

i've been calling her a festering whore...

Posted by: SturmToddler at August 23, 2024 12:14 PM (v6XNT)

103 60 >>> 24 Hi Ace
So happy the DNC snooze fest is done and can't wait for this afternoon's announcement.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 23, 2024 12:05 PM (t/2Uw)

Well, *I* for one am not happy; that bunch of worthless slackers didn't burn ANYTHING down.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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History repeats itself--first as a tragedy, the second time as a farce. We are in the fake farce stage.

Other than a relatively few Palestinian ancestry in the US, most people simply do not give a crap about Ham Ass or Palestinians. So any drummed up emotions are pretty much led by professional paid agitators. Protest culture and mobs have been a feature of the left for a very long time.

Posted by: whig at August 23, 2024 12:14 PM (kW+z9)

104 Mamala Dearest is so popular that I just read that Tester from Montana is not gonna endorse her.. Of course if/when she wins and he does too he will vote 99. 9 % with whatever she wants....

Posted by: It's me donna at August 23, 2024 12:14 PM (IyPmt)

105 "Hypercorrection" is a common mistake when attempting to pronounce foreign words correctly.

reminds me of every gringo newscaster on local news in Texas over rolling their Rs to show off those Spanish lessons they took

"We now go live to Pedrrrrrrooo Rrrrrrrodrrrrrrrriguezzz at the scene..."

*supprseed laughter from Mexico co-anchor*

Posted by: brak at August 23, 2024 12:14 PM (NGHTx)

106 "Nobody says KA-mal."

Remember when i was marketing cigs to kids?

Posted by: Joe Camel at August 23, 2024 12:14 PM (KAi1n)

107 Yep. First name basis for any of "those people" is fake, and gay. They are being played and can't even.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 23, 2024 12:14 PM (bTxgO)

108 It's ee-GORE!

Posted by: Igor at August 23, 2024 12:14 PM (i0F8b)

109 Lemon-Say comma.

Bro-Comma.

Lemon-Now put a la at the end of it

Bro-Communist-la

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 23, 2024 12:14 PM (fs1hN)

110 Down here “La-a” is pronounced Ladasha. We ain’t got no rules, cracka.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 23, 2024 12:15 PM (0jOr6)

111 My dad always jokingly called them Whore Dee Orves.

Posted by: polynikes at August 23, 2024 12:15 PM (B1dzx)

112 74 Ka-MAL-la is almost certainly how it's properly pronounced in India. That would be consistent with how Ka-MAL is pronounced. Nobody says KA-mal.

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That's true but even in India, and among Indians abroad, because there so many dialects, you would get numerous variations.

Really the ultimate authority is her mom since the mom gets to decide. To bad she's not around to set the record straight.

Posted by: anon at August 23, 2024 12:15 PM (Gqa7j)

113 >>>Thirdly, people probably can't articulate this, but they know when it comes to foreign words or names their first thought about how to pronounce a foreign word or name is wrong.

Fourthly, this guy:

https://tinyurl.com/bdfwu9s2

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 23, 2024 12:15 PM (i24o9)

114 ...hey, is Don Laymon a biologist? Then how the fck does he know if he's interviewing a man or a woman???

And why doesn't he ask Hindus?

Posted by: t-bird at August 23, 2024 12:15 PM (xw/ji)

115 Second of all, because the much more well-known name "Kamal" has a stress on the second syllable. Ka-MAL.

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I made this very observation a couple days ago. If you think the name is a feminized "Kamal," as you might assume for an African-American woman, you're going to accent the second syllable without even thinking about it. Pretty obvious there's a germ of "appropriation" in the approbation. Rather selective, too.

Posted by: John Cleese, AoS lurker at August 23, 2024 12:15 PM (wzAuc)

116 reminds me of every gringo newscaster on local news in Texas over rolling their Rs to show off those Spanish lessons they took ...
Posted by: brak at August 23, 2024 12:14 PM (NGHTx)
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I will never fall into that trap.

I can't roll my Rs. Never could. Even when I was learning Spanish. I just can't do it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2024 12:15 PM (HnUIn)

117 Fortunately no one really speaks Latin anymore, except for, ahem, some weirdos.

Dux femina facti.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 23, 2024 12:15 PM (EXyHK)

118 Just call her Harris.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Whorris.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2024 12:16 PM (v6JzV)

119 Comrade Cha MEEL ya.

Posted by: RI Red at August 23, 2024 12:16 PM (D610J)

120 No one EVER pronounces my last name correctly, and it ain't because of "racism."

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at August 23, 2024 12:16 PM (qUkBO)

121 ace you'd love Russian stress patterns and what they do to pronunciation of vowels. Fortunately there's one word ("moloko", milk) that serves as sort of a cheat/guide to pronunciation of the worst vowel, "o".

Posted by: rhomboid at August 23, 2024 12:16 PM (GcNJ2)

122 74 The sudden change in pronunciation was pure gaslighting to find something to trip up and disparage normal average Americans.

Fuck KA-ma-la through the mouth with a 14-inch oozing monkeypox dick dipped in rat poison attached to a 350-pound junkie hobo who hasn't showered in 3 months. And make her pay $20 for it.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 23, 2024 12:10 PM (iFTx/)

I am jaded enough to think it was for marketing purposes. The AWFLs love to wear their large character “, la”.

Posted by: EveR at August 23, 2024 12:16 PM (MUpk6)

123 So it appears they have cancelled the Hulk Hogan biopic because he appeared at the RNC.

A**holes.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 23, 2024 12:16 PM (XV/Pl)

124 Getting punched in the face sometimes would be worth a lot.
Posted by: huerfano at August 23, 2024 12:07 PM (VGOMa)

stay in your lane..

/geraldo....

Posted by: SturmToddler at August 23, 2024 12:16 PM (v6XNT)

125 93 Ignorant people also say tay-a-tay for tête-à-tête [it really is said TET] because they think all French accent marks make a long-A sound as in fiancée.
Posted by: andycanuck
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I am always amused by the fact that the English often Anglicize French words and phrases as a kind of subtle FU to teh French.

Posted by: whig at August 23, 2024 12:17 PM (kW+z9)

126 Edit: The AWFLs love to wear their large character “, la”.
Posted by: EveR at August 23, 2024 12:16 PM (MUpk6)

T-shirts.

Posted by: EveR at August 23, 2024 12:17 PM (MUpk6)

127 BTW, my surname is Italian and I'll pronounce it "in English" phonetically if [e.g. the person is typing my name into a criminal background computer search; and I didn't mind the anglicized pronunciation being used at school, recognizing that my paternal Italian grandparents [circa 1911] came to an English-speaking country!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 23, 2024 12:17 PM (c39uV)

128 Lemon's IQ doesn't seem to have risen.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 23, 2024 12:17 PM (FfSAJ)

129 Get off my foot, Cleese-sock.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 23, 2024 12:17 PM (wzAuc)

130 Oh man, the sheer condesension in that second clip.

"Do you know how to say period? Say period."

How about do you know how to say "somebody call 911 I think my nose is broken!" Get ready to say it..."

Posted by: Shenanigans at August 23, 2024 12:18 PM (pZ0Mr)

131
Do your homework, Bigots.

I did. Jamaica was inhabited by people who initially migrated deep into South America. We referred to them as Indians. Somewhere in the 600 to 800 AD range there were three tribes who moved northward and settled in Jamaica. After Jamaica was 'discovered' the slave traders brought slaves from West Africa to Jamaica. The slave-owners were Indians, the slaves African. If Kamala's ancestors owned slaves they were the original Indians, not black Africans. The British borrowed a ton of money to have the slave-owners free the slaves. They only recently were able to repay those loans. The former slaves received nothing but their freedom.

In actuality the Kamala ancestry includes the group we politically correctly refer to as 'Native Americans' (aka Indians) and those from the nation of India. Kamala's ancestors benefited from the slave trade of black Africans to the financial detriment of the British. An 'inconvenient truth' in the words of the Internet's father.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 23, 2024 12:18 PM (RKVpM)

132 "Camel-ah" (like Camelot)

"Kah-melah"

"KamAhhlah"

"Kamal-AAAAAAHHH" (like "the black beast of AAAAHHH!")

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 23, 2024 12:18 PM (B9Prs)

133 reminds me of every gringo newscaster on local news in Texas over rolling their Rs to show off those Spanish lessons they took
_____

I like the food network guy from mexico or wherever, speaking in a mid-western American accent except for the occassional spanish

"Here we are at the fairgrounds among the food trucks, and this one here has some of the best "tah-kosss" and "burrrrrr-ee-tohsssss" in the county!"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 23, 2024 12:18 PM (fs1hN)

134 Don LeMon attempts to shame a white man as a racist for not knowing how Kamala is pronouncing her name this week.

We need to start prefacing conversations by exchanging our preferred pronouns and pronunciations.

Posted by: t-bird at August 23, 2024 12:18 PM (xw/ji)

135 Try to conceive of the lack of masculine self respect it takes to allow yourself to be instructed on pronunciation by Don Lemon. I cannot.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 23, 2024 12:18 PM (+uT10)

136 my first desire to speak italian came when I was working in a pizza shop with second-generation sicilians. one of them had a book about the italian language because, while he spoke it at home, he spoke what he thought was kind of local variant of the language, not real italian (or sicilian).

anyway, I remember pronouncing motociCLETa properly after some experimenting and this Sicilian guy said "Hey, you sound Italian!"

so that stuck with me.

I mentioned the verb "vedere" because when I started learning Italian for real I made the mistake of saying "veDEre," applying the usual penultimate syllable rule, but that doesn't apply to words with suffixes appended to them.

Posted by: ace at August 23, 2024 12:19 PM (KRtlO)

137 >>Let me explain why people say ka-MA-la. First of all, because Kamala herself says it that way sometimes. It depends on her feelz for that week.

Again, simply following English phonetic rules would render it Kah-Mah-Lah.

This is all so f**king stupid, but apparently that's where we're at at end stage America.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 23, 2024 12:19 PM (XV/Pl)

138 It’s freedom toast, not French toast.

Posted by: 13times at August 23, 2024 12:19 PM (RgvhD)

139 Let me explain why people say ka-MA-la. First of all, because Kamala herself says it that way sometimes. It depends on her feelz for that week.
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Doesn't Science! back her up? According to Neil DeGrasse Tyson, sometimes you feel you've got nuts, sometimes you don't. And that is what matters. How she feel defines her truth today. (OTOH, you Deplorables have NO truth.)

He is, after all, one of the Science Triumvirate, with Bill Nye and Anthony Fauci. So you cannot dispute it.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 23, 2024 12:19 PM (1bNHn)

140 Morning.

Posted by: Robert at August 23, 2024 12:19 PM (4q9ff)

141 Did Le'mon ever find that black hole that swallowed up the MH370?

Posted by: one hour sober at August 23, 2024 12:19 PM (Y1sOo)

142 I saw a X video yesterday wherein a uterine-positive POC told me there are 10 ways we crackers are saying 'the N word' without actually saying the N word

words like 'DEI hire' or 'grifter' etc

attemps to control language
nobody tells me how to talk
I say we go back to the archaic terms

Posted by: Don Black at August 23, 2024 12:19 PM (/7KEl)

143 Whores' de ovaries

Posted by: SFGoth at August 23, 2024 12:19 PM (KAi1n)

144 I call her Camel-a because of her facial features
🐫

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 23, 2024 12:20 PM (jbnUc)

145 I can't roll my Rs. Never could. Even when I was learning Spanish. I just can't do it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2024 12:15 PM (HnUIn)

So when you played with your GI Joe dolls, they never needed a helicopter?

Posted by: kathysaysso at August 23, 2024 12:20 PM (tYTvT)

146 Her name is Kamalamadingdong.

Posted by: Robert at August 23, 2024 12:20 PM (4q9ff)

147
In actuality the Kamala ancestry includes the group we politically correctly refer to as 'Native Americans' (aka Indians)

Don't tell her... She'll run as a Native American if she thinks she'll get more votes

Posted by: It's me donna at August 23, 2024 12:20 PM (IyPmt)

148
Remember when i was marketing cigs to kids?
Posted by: Joe Camel

I was doing it before you did.

Posted by: Fred Flintstone at August 23, 2024 12:20 PM (63Dwl)

149 @HawleyMO
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Posted by: JackStraw at August 23, 2024 12:20 PM (LkLld)

150 When Tucker Carlson was taking heat for purposely pronouncing Kamala's name wrong, he put together a montage showing about four different ways she has said her own name.

Posted by: Axeman at August 23, 2024 12:20 PM (krQz2)

151 How about do you know how to say "somebody call 911 I think my nose is broken!" Get ready to say it..."
Posted by: Shenanigans

Tell you what. This man either showed remarkable restraint or that he's a big pussy with an outsized soy intake.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 23, 2024 12:21 PM (BEAj6)

152 Just remember when you're doing your Spanish homework, as required by law:

Single Rs are flipped.
Double Rs are rolled.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 23, 2024 12:21 PM (wzAuc)

153 My favorite mispronunciation is "forte."

A "for" is Italian and related to music.

A "forte" is French and refers to the strong part of a sword (sord).

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 23, 2024 12:21 PM (JVCkA)

154 reminds me of every gringo newscaster on local news in Texas over rolling their Rs to show off those Spanish lessons they took
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How about reporter, Miranda Veracruz de la Hoya Cardinal!!??

Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 23, 2024 12:21 PM (c39uV)

155 Instead of using her name as a cudgel why wouldn't Harris just say she doesn't care how people pronounce it so long as they know how to vote for her?

It's funny how angry and churlish the party of joy is.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 23, 2024 12:21 PM (FfSAJ)

156 We need to start prefacing conversations by exchanging our preferred pronouns and pronunciations.
Posted by: t-bird at August 23, 2024 12:18 PM (xw/ji)
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People already do. I had a professor with an Italian surname that, with English pronunciation, comes out all wrong. During introductions at the start of the term, he told us how to pronounce his name. Done. Easy.

I once interviewed a guy with an unusual foreign name full of vowels and I didn't know how to pronounce it. So guess what? I asked him. He pronounced it for me. Done. Easy.

This shit is normal, but is being marketed in this case as a trap for people, because they have nothing of substance. It's been "ka-MAH-lah" for *years* now in every newscast and when she has said her own name. It's just in the past few days that suddenly it changed - and you're the racist for not knowing it. It's absurd.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2024 12:21 PM (HnUIn)

157 So I didn't stay up last night - who was their surprise speaker?

Posted by: IC - #FJB at August 23, 2024 12:21 PM (YiKO5)

158 🚨🚨 NEW - Whistleblower says Secret Service HQ told agents working the Butler PA event NOT to request additional manpower resources for the rally & warned any such requests would be denied.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 23, 2024 12:20 PM (LkLld)
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Not exactly new.

Posted by: Axeman at August 23, 2024 12:21 PM (krQz2)

159 How's this pronunciation of her name, douchebag? "Communist bitch." Does that work for ya?

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 23, 2024 12:21 PM (+uT10)

160 I can't roll my Rs. Never could. Even when I was learning Spanish. I just can't do it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2024 12:15 PM (HnUIn)

Just vibrate the tip of your tongue against the roof of your mouth.

Posted by: Robert at August 23, 2024 12:21 PM (4q9ff)

161 145 I can't roll my Rs. Never could. Even when I was learning Spanish. I just can't do it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Similar issues abound throughout human society whenever cultures and languages are mixed.

Posted by: whig at August 23, 2024 12:21 PM (kW+z9)

162 In Spain, cinco is pronounced "thinko" and diez is "dieth."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 23, 2024 12:22 PM (JVCkA)

163 I am always amused by the fact that the English often Anglicize French words and phrases as a kind of subtle FU to teh French.

When I was in Italy last year I picked up a book about vintage cooking, Cucina Vintage. Fun book.

“Vintage” is not an Italian word. It appears that Italians sprinkle American English everywhere, especially in both online and print publishing. So I asked an Italian friend how she’d pronounce that title, Italian (vinn TAH jay) or English. Because it felt very strange to me to go from Italian on “cucina” to English on “vintage”.

“Probably French, vinn TAHJH, but in practice no one cares about pronunciation.”

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 23, 2024 12:22 PM (EXyHK)

164 Just vibrate the tip of your tongue against the roof of your mouth.
Posted by: Robert at August 23, 2024 12:21 PM (4q9ff)
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Yeah, so they say.

I can't do it. I cannot make it work.

Thankfully, I also don't care.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2024 12:22 PM (HnUIn)

165 160 I can't roll my Rs. Never could. Even when I was learning Spanish. I just can't do it.

But can Don Lemon roll his arse?

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 23, 2024 12:23 PM (FfSAJ)

166 Kamalahu Akbar!!!!!!

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 23, 2024 12:23 PM (BEAj6)

167 Whores' de ovaries

Posted by: SFGoth at August 23, 2024 12:19 PM (KAi1n)

And that little girl was me.

Posted by: Ka-mal-a the Indian Warrior at August 23, 2024 12:23 PM (i24o9)

168 Similar issues abound throughout human society whenever cultures and languages are mixed.
Posted by: whig at August 23, 2024 12:21 PM (kW+z9)
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They never shoulda built that tower!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2024 12:23 PM (HnUIn)

169 It's "Dis-NEE."

Posted by: Bob Iger at August 23, 2024 12:23 PM (woPEM)

170 Why anyone would want to participate in a "man on the street" interview is a mystery to me. A couple of years ago I was getting out of my car to go into a store and there were two "journalists" set up on the sidewalk outside of the adjacent store; when they saw me, they began excitedly approaching, but I just slowly shook my head which froze them in their tracks. Their look of disappointment was priceless.

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at August 23, 2024 12:23 PM (qUkBO)

171 reminds me of every gringo newscaster on local news in Texas over rolling their Rs to show off those Spanish lessons they took

"We now go live to Pedrrrrrrooo Rrrrrrrodrrrrrrrriguezzz at the scene..."

*supprseed laughter from Mexico co-anchor*
Posted by: brak

SNL had a funny skit about that back in the day. Jimmy Smits (who is part Hispanic) was the guest host. He's in an office with his co-workers (may have even been a newsroom), and all the gringo co-workers are trying to pronounce words like "enchilada" and "burrito" in the Spanish way, while Smits is pronouncing them normally.

Good stuff. Back when SNL was funny.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2024 12:23 PM (v6JzV)

172 I like "Ka-ma- LA."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 23, 2024 12:23 PM (JVCkA)

173 I pronounce it as Kuntala.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at August 23, 2024 12:23 PM (S8hJY)

174 >>Not exactly new.

It's new that there is a SS whistleblower and 5 agents just got suspended.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 23, 2024 12:23 PM (LkLld)

175 Pock-- eee - Stan would like a word .

Posted by: Ben Had at August 23, 2024 12:23 PM (3OQQc)

176 Remember when i was marketing cigs to kids?
Posted by: Joe Camel

I was doing it before you did.
Posted by: Fred Flintstone

The Flintstones was actually an adult show until syndication. It's where i learned the word "droll". "Droll, Wilma, very droll." I had to ask my mother what "droll" meant.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 23, 2024 12:23 PM (KAi1n)

177 Spain, cinco is pronounced "thinko" and diez is "dieth."
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 23, 2024 12:22 PM (JVCkA)

Always said Mike Tyson would be a good Castilian Spanish speaker.

Posted by: polynikes at August 23, 2024 12:23 PM (B1dzx)

178 I think some of the swarthier, southern Italians are allowed to have a culture. But northern Italy is right out.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 23, 2024 12:24 PM (Dm8we)

179 The name issue is just a cudgel with which to beat Trump supporters over the head with. Just like a MAGA “smirking” or the OK symbol.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at August 23, 2024 12:24 PM (vsXBg)

180 Kamala the Ugandan Headhunter/Giant's given name was James Harris, so he was Kamala Harris first.

RIP James "Kamala" Harris.

Posted by: Wrestlemania at August 23, 2024 12:24 PM (CV8a5)

181 NEW - Whistleblower says Secret Service HQ told agents working the Butler PA event NOT to request additional manpower resources for the rally & warned any such requests would be denied. Contradicts Director Rowe testimony, who said no resources were ever denied
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We told them not to request additional manpower so that we can truthfully say we never denied any request since there weren't any. Easy peasy.

Next question, nevermind, FU, no more questions.

Posted by: SS HQ at August 23, 2024 12:24 PM (fs1hN)

182 People are racist for pronouncing her name right. People are racist for pronouncing her name wrong.

Bottom line. Keep Kamala's name out yo fuckin mouf.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2024 12:24 PM (4DWWO)

183 Yeah, so they say.

I can't do it. I cannot make it work.

Thankfully, I also don't care.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2024 12:22 PM (HnUIn)

Have you tried finding a saucy Mexican babe who can show you how it's done? Preferably with the lights dimmed? If you follow me.

Posted by: Robert at August 23, 2024 12:24 PM (4q9ff)

184 Let me explain why people say ka-MA-la. First of all, because Kamala herself says it that way sometimes. It depends on her feelz for that week.

Second of all, because the much more well-known name "Kamal" has a stress on the second syllable. Ka-MAL.

Thirdly, people probably can't articulate this, but they know when it comes to foreign words or names their first thought about how to pronounce a foreign word or name is wrong. English tends to put the accent on the first syllable. This is not the rule for many foreign languages. Some major foreign languages, like Spanish and Italian, tend to accent the penultimate syllable.

Fourthly, and maybe most importantly, most people just don't care how it is pronounced. If someone's parents chooses poorly in the naming department, that's not anyone else's problem. Perfect strangers don't have the time or inclination to give a shit.

Posted by: Why would they? at August 23, 2024 12:24 PM (P3jvJ)

185 Now it will always be 'Comma-la' (spoken and spelled) because Don Le-moan told me so. Thanks, Don!

Posted by: Coki at August 23, 2024 12:24 PM (Wkrcf)

186 In actuality the Kamala ancestry includes the group we politically correctly refer to as 'Native Americans' (aka Indians) and those from the nation of India.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Per Wiki:
Donald Jasper Harris was born in Brown's Town, St. Ann Parish, Jamaica, the son of Oscar Joseph Harris and Beryl Christie Harris (née Finegan), who were Afro-Jamaicans. As a child, Harris learned the catechism, was baptized and confirmed in the Anglican Church, and served as an acolyte.

Harris's paternal grandmother, born Christiana Brown, told Harris that she was descended from Irish-born plantation owner Hamilton Brown (1776–1843), who founded the local Anglican Church where she is buried. Hamilton Brown owned at least 1,120 slaves, most of them on sugar plantations in Saint Ann Parish, and was "instrumental in the importing of several hundred labourers and their families from Ireland to Jamaica between 1835 and 1840"

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 23, 2024 12:25 PM (Mc7gB)

187 @HawleyMO
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Posted by: JackStraw at August 23, 2024 12:20 PM (LkLld)

I thought the old director resigned too quickly and quietly. She's hiding something. And it goes straight to the top, I suspect.

Posted by: Ka-mal-a the Indian Warrior at August 23, 2024 12:25 PM (i24o9)

188 Where does someone as stupid as Don Lemon get off being arrogant?

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 23, 2024 12:25 PM (FfSAJ)

189 They never shoulda built that tower!
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Globalists are trying to rebuild it which is always a stupid proposition. But Cloud People never were much for reality until it is shoved into their individual faces like a creme pie.

Universalism reduces individuals to the level of things.

Posted by: whig at August 23, 2024 12:25 PM (kW+z9)

190 Okay, another favorite. In San Diego, there is the Cabrillo National Monument on the end of Point Loma. Trying to say it in Spanish, lots of folks say "Cabreeyo."

Thing is Cabrillo was Portugese. It's pronounced Ca-brillo."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 23, 2024 12:25 PM (JVCkA)

191 "That's oz WEE pay', not 'asswipe', if you don't mind

name that SNL guest host

Posted by: Don Black at August 23, 2024 12:25 PM (/7KEl)

192 Posted by: IC - #FJB at August 23, 2024 12:21 PM (YiKO5)

RINO Adam Kinzinger who is no longer in Congress.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 23, 2024 12:26 PM (dTTBf)

193 Say it right the first time - difficulty level : Polish

Wojciech Szczęście

Posted by: Polish guy at August 23, 2024 12:26 PM (NGHTx)

194 🎶 I can suck a duck 🎶

Posted by: Beast of Unburdening at August 23, 2024 12:26 PM (592Pr)

195 "Teaching a Trump supporter how to pronounce . . . ."

How does Don LeHomo know this was a Trump supporter? The guy never gave any indication what his political views were or who he supported. I also like how he never stopped looking at his phone, as if this stupid stunt by a raging faggot wasn't worth paying any attention to.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 23, 2024 12:26 PM (iFTx/)

196 It's Kommiela

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 23, 2024 12:26 PM (EGSGm)

197 >>> 169 It's "Dis-NEE."
Posted by: Bob Iger at August 23, 2024 12:23 PM (woPEM)

Hi, Bob. Is there a little star over the I?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 23, 2024 12:26 PM (FnneF)

198
So I didn't stay up last night - who was their surprise speaker?
Posted by: IC - #FJB

Marcel Marceau

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 23, 2024 12:26 PM (63Dwl)

199 >>>I am always amused by the fact that the English often Anglicize French words and phrases as a kind of subtle FU to teh French.

yeah I like that. I forget which words they do it with, but sometimes they do the opposite and pronounce french words with the french pronunciation, even though Americans do the opposite and anglicize them.

Posted by: ace at August 23, 2024 12:26 PM (KRtlO)

200 SNL had a funny skit about that back in the day. Jimmy Smits (who is part Hispanic) was the guest host. He's in an office with his co-workers (may have even been a newsroom), and all the gringo co-workers are trying to pronounce words like "enchilada" and "burrito" in the Spanish way, while Smits is pronouncing them normally.
___

Did you watch the Denver "Brrrron-khossss" game last night?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 23, 2024 12:27 PM (fs1hN)

201 I prefer "Kumswallah."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 23, 2024 12:27 PM (JVCkA)

202 Honestly this name pronunciation thing has a ring of "pronoun" to me.

She tells you how she wants her name pronounced today and if it changes tomorrow and you don't follow along, you go to jail.

Pronouns are not about respect or any of that stupid shit. They are about subordinating everyone else to your personal capricious will. Putting people in their place beneath you before Word One is uttered between you.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2024 12:27 PM (4DWWO)

203 Every now and then I hear Peter Jennings' voice in my head:

"Nick-uhl-A-gua."

cringe.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 23, 2024 12:27 PM (wzAuc)

204 Have you tried finding a saucy Mexican babe who can show you how it's done? Preferably with the lights dimmed? If you follow me.
Posted by: Robert at August 23, 2024 12:24 PM (4q9ff)
++++
Ugh. No. I'm looking for a REAL man, not a project. I'm not your mother.

Posted by: Saucy Mexican Babe at August 23, 2024 12:27 PM (HnUIn)

205 >>>name that SNL guest host

the great Nicholas Cage, of course.

Posted by: ace at August 23, 2024 12:27 PM (KRtlO)

206
Since if the worst case scenario could (with a ton of 3 am shenanigans) come true I'll be forced to call it the 'Age of Kamala' - because it's sort sounds like Camelot and I'll pronounce it that way while I nibble on moldy government cheese for subsistence.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 23, 2024 12:27 PM (RKVpM)

207 "Hypercorrection"

hyperwords I associate with Kumswalla Whoris:
hyper-syphillis

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 23, 2024 12:27 PM (ynpvh)

208 Who cares how she pronounces it. In about a year, no one will remember her anyway.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 23, 2024 12:28 PM (2UnvF)

209 ace you'd love Russian stress patterns and what they do to pronunciation of vowels. Fortunately there's one word ("moloko", milk) that serves as sort of a cheat/guide to pronunciation of the worst vowel, "o".
Posted by: rhomboid

There really isn't a pattern. Stress is variable in Russian, and it is usually (with a few exceptions) impossible to tell where the stress falls in a word just by seeing it in print.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2024 12:28 PM (v6JzV)

210 Given that all media sucks, why interface with them? Tell them to go get a shine box.

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 23, 2024 12:28 PM (FmapG)

211 Remember how mad that idiot Boxer got about ma'am and her dumbass title?

That's all it is. Pronouns are a title you earn by being a mental patient.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2024 12:28 PM (4DWWO)

212 Contradicts Director Rowe testimony, who said no resources were ever denied
Posted by: JackStraw at August 23, 2024 12:20 PM (LkLld)

Well technically if they convinced them not to request any in the first place, then there were no requests to deny.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 23, 2024 12:28 PM (EGSGm)

213 Name that SNL guest host

That was clearly Dr. Rosenpenis.

Posted by: Dr. Rosenrosen at August 23, 2024 12:28 PM (NJ3go)

214 well done ace

Posted by: Don Black at August 23, 2024 12:28 PM (/7KEl)

215 193 Say it right the first time - difficulty level : Polish

Wojciech Szczęście
Posted by: Polish guy
_____

Woy-chek Shish-ewsh-kee ?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 23, 2024 12:28 PM (fs1hN)

216 I am always amused by the fact that the English often Anglicize French words and phrases as a kind of subtle FU to teh French.
Posted by: whig at August 23, 2024

***
Pie poudre ("dusty foot") became "pie powder."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2024 12:28 PM (J2vNu)

217 This busty bikini brunette was once approached for one of those "man on the street" interviews, but told the journalist that she doesn't speak to subhumans in the press:
http://tiny.cc/zz6jzz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2024 12:28 PM (HnUIn)

218 looks like italians do stress the "co" in capocolo

https://tinyurl.com/494mdns9

Posted by: ace at August 23, 2024 12:29 PM (KRtlO)

219
How does Don LeHomo know this was a Trump supporter?

--

Probably asked before the clip. Would explain his patronizing line of questioning.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 23, 2024 12:29 PM (wzAuc)

220 Vintage is a suburb of Fragile!

Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 23, 2024 12:29 PM (c39uV)

221 I prefer "Kumswallah."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 23, 2024 12:27 PM (JVCkA)

You prefer "Kumswallah."

You'd settle for "Kumspittah."

You'll get, "I have a headache."

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 23, 2024 12:30 PM (i24o9)

222 yeah I like that. I forget which words they do it with, but sometimes they do the opposite and pronounce french words with the french pronunciation, even though Americans do the opposite and anglicize them.
Posted by: ace

Pronouncing Calais with a prominent s ending is one example that the English do on purpose. You see the same in the Rumpole series "À chacun son goût" is used in a court scene to hilarious effect when the poor court reporter is trying to interpret what the judge said.

Think it is in the Tap End story.

Posted by: whig at August 23, 2024 12:30 PM (kW+z9)

223 1066 AD changed a lot about the English language.

Posted by: polynikes at August 23, 2024 12:30 PM (B1dzx)

224 "Journalists," 2026: "It's now pronounced KAY-ma-la, you stupid rubes. As in Kay-Kay, which we've been calling Madame President for several months now."

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at August 23, 2024 12:30 PM (qUkBO)

225 How about cache ?

Posted by: polynikes at August 23, 2024 12:31 PM (B1dzx)

226 217 This busty bikini brunette was once approached for one of those "man on the street" interviews, but told the journalist that she doesn't speak to subhumans in the press:
http://tiny.cc/zz6jzz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2024 12:28 PM

--

"Approached on the street" is right there in her job description.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 23, 2024 12:31 PM (wzAuc)

227 Special K ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 23, 2024 12:31 PM (NtVYv)

228 This is so retarded.

I have a very simple, common American name and people mispronounce it all the fucking time.

We moved a fair amount when I was a kid and I got to where if someone said anything that might possibly be my name, I answered.

And 99 times out of a hundred, I was right.

Buuuuuuut, if you really want people to get your name right, don't go for Gufuzoovishnu or whatever lame-ass name from the country you left behind to come to America,

Choose a simple name American English-oriented name like John or Sally. There. Done. No one ever gets your name wrong again.

Assholes.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 23, 2024 12:31 PM (eDfFs)

229 Say it right the first time - difficulty level : Polish

Wojciech Szczęście
Posted by: Polish guy at August 23, 2024 12:26 PM (NGHTx)

This is a trick question. Everyone knows Polish isn't a real language, it's a practical joke by Orthodox Slavs perpetrated against Roman Catholics.

Posted by: Robert at August 23, 2024 12:31 PM (sjx/y)

230 yeah I like that. I forget which words they do it with
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Ballet
Debris
Bureau

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2024 12:31 PM (4DWWO)

231 Her "right" to demand pronunciation of her name is as real as Hillary Clinton being named after Sir Edmund Hillary.

Fake, fake and fake

Go giggle up a horse dick, Camaelala.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 23, 2024 12:32 PM (qky8v)

232 Americans pronounce things in their own way

eye RACK
eye RAN
CUE ber
chilly

Posted by: Don Black at August 23, 2024 12:32 PM (/7KEl)

233 Just vibrate the tip of your tongue against the roof of your mouth.
Posted by: Robert at August 23, 2024 12:21 PM (4q9ff)

go on....
/ mayor pete...

Posted by: SturmToddler at August 23, 2024 12:32 PM (v6XNT)

234 He may hate white people, but he will put out videos to get white people to click if it makes him some money.

--------------

OUT: Clickbait.
IN: Clickhate.

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 23, 2024 12:32 PM (M5J6O)

235 Update: People say there's an even bigger reason people say "KaMAla" -- there was a pro wrestler named Kamala the Ugandan, and he pronounced it with the stress on the second syllable.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:00 PM

--

And the capital of Uganda is pronounced Kam-PAH-la.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 23, 2024 12:32 PM (wzAuc)

236
Woy-chek Shish-ewsh-kee ?

this guy knows how to Pole

Posted by: Polish guy at August 23, 2024 12:32 PM (NGHTx)

237 My last name was French and ended in a T.. Everyone pronounced the T when it was meant to be silent... Bugged the hell out of me

Posted by: It's me donna at August 23, 2024 12:32 PM (IyPmt)

238 So there are 2 people who could be referred to as “Kamala the head hunter”?

Posted by: Rusty at August 23, 2024 12:33 PM (nrIMb)

239 With that condescending tone, I would have asked L'mon not to smear his finger taint on my face in front of the camera.

Posted by: Crazy at August 23, 2024 12:33 PM (EES2L)

240 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2024 12:28 PM (HnUIn)

And she's terrified of being photographed too.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 23, 2024 12:33 PM (dTTBf)

241
So I didn't stay up last night - who was their surprise speaker?
Posted by: IC - #FJB

"Pink" appeared, not Beyonce.

You may remember born and raised PENNSYLVANIA musician 'Pink' - and if you don't get off my lawn.

They're pinning their hopes on the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in every way except that Jewish guy who happens to be our Governor.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 23, 2024 12:33 PM (RKVpM)

242 Americans pronounce things in their own way

eye RACK
eye RAN
CUE ber
chilly
Posted by: Don Black at August 23, 2024 12:32 PM (/7KEl)

Hah you just reminded me of Qatar.

Posted by: polynikes at August 23, 2024 12:33 PM (B1dzx)

243 Throatwobbler Mangrove

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 23, 2024 12:34 PM (63Dwl)

244 The Brits using valet instead of val-lay is one that just popped into my head.

Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 23, 2024 12:34 PM (c39uV)

245 http://tiny.cc/zz6jzz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2024 12:28 PM (HnUIn)

She's been a bad girl and needs a firm spanking.

Posted by: Robert at August 23, 2024 12:34 PM (ha9wx)

246 Hah you just reminded me of Qatar.
____

A gutter country.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 23, 2024 12:34 PM (fs1hN)

247 I am still puzzled as to why Harris would not want the guy who got the most votes in history on the stage with her? Something seems off…

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at August 23, 2024 12:34 PM (vsXBg)

248 Plus most people have heard of the Kabbalah and it sounds like that. I can see why she would want the distance and/or find it offensive given the association.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2024 12:34 PM (4DWWO)

249 People pronounce it that way because many know Kamala the Ugandan Giant, the cannibal wrestler who is more likable and human-like, than the retard who was at the DNC trying to form basic sentences and failing.

Also that Trump supporter should get a medal for not just knocking the head off that condescending douche, especially considering Lemon is widely known for having a sub-60 IQ.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 23, 2024 12:35 PM (R2rIn)

250 One cool thing about Italian is if you just train yourself to stress the second-to-last syllable, you suddenly sound like you're speaking Italian like a native. Motocicleta (motorcycle)? Just say mo-to-chee-CLAY-ta, and bang, you're speaking Italian.

--------------

And how do you say that in Italian Sign Language?

Capisce?

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 23, 2024 12:35 PM (M5J6O)

251 I have one of the simplest most widespread single syllable surnames in the English speaking world

I discovered it can be misspelled!

Posted by: Don Black at August 23, 2024 12:35 PM (/7KEl)

252 She's been a bad girl and needs a firm spanking.
Posted by: Robert at August 23, 2024 12:34 PM (ha9wx)

That costs extra.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 23, 2024 12:35 PM (dTTBf)

253 It's me donna, your last name was Maginot?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 23, 2024 12:35 PM (3OQQc)

254 http://tiny.cc/zz6jzz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2024 12:28 PM (HnUIn)

She's been a bad girl and needs a firm spanking.
Posted by: Robert at August 23, 2024 12:34 PM (ha9wx)

Holy Smokes !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 23, 2024 12:35 PM (NtVYv)

255 She's been a bad girl and needs a firm spanking.
Posted by: Robert

And we all know what comes after the spanking. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at August 23, 2024 12:35 PM (ZELaS)

256 No clix for Don Smell My Finger. What a douche. .

Posted by: LASue at August 23, 2024 12:35 PM (YDB6U)

257 253 It's me donna, your last name was Maginot?
Posted by: Ben Had at August 23, 2024 12:35 PM (3OQQc)

LOL.... No

Posted by: It's me donna at August 23, 2024 12:36 PM (IyPmt)

258 This busty bikini brunette was once approached for one of those "man on the street" interviews, but told the journalist that she doesn't speak to subhumans in the press:
http://tiny.cc/zz6jzz
Posted by: Joe Mannix
____________

TJM - "Slight bulge over bikini bottom. Would not bang."

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 23, 2024 12:36 PM (Dm8we)

259 I have seen these videos a few times and they are funny. I really like blue shorts outfit - I wonder where she got it. 😊

Posted by: Piper at August 23, 2024 12:36 PM (2N3ca)

260 http://tiny.cc/zz6jzz

Holy Moly Guacamole !!

Posted by: polynikes at August 23, 2024 12:36 PM (B1dzx)

261 That costs extra.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 23, 2024 12:35 PM (dTTBf)

*Shakes out pockets*

Posted by: Robert at August 23, 2024 12:36 PM (ha9wx)

262 You prefer "Kumswallah."

You'd settle for "Kumspittah."

You'll get, "I have a headache."
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 23, 2024 12:30 PM (i24o9)

golf clap

Posted by: SturmToddler at August 23, 2024 12:36 PM (v6XNT)

263 223 1066 AD changed a lot about the English language.
Posted by: polynikes

Produced in English a weird tiered system of language that persists to this day and serves in many cases as a class marker.

Bottom level, Anglo Saxon. Treated as vulgar and low class today. Then you have Norman French laid over that foundation to say the same thing. Then on top of that foundation, you have church Latin influence that derived words from Latin directly instead of indirectly like Norman French.

Posted by: whig at August 23, 2024 12:36 PM (kW+z9)

264 I'll pronounce her name correctly when she pronounces it at a press conference.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 23, 2024 12:36 PM (qky8v)

265 260 http://tiny.cc/zz6jzz

Holy Moly Guacamole !!

can't check from work, so i'm'a just assume this involves benny hill chasing around scantily-clad hotties.

Posted by: anachronda at August 23, 2024 12:37 PM (oY6Yp)

266 I'd just call her Harris.

Or Nasty bitch faced lying whore.

Posted by: nurse ratched, certified weirdo at August 23, 2024 12:37 PM (sdSI9)

267 I agree with almost everything you write here esp. coup de grace which is a particular bugaboo for me. (I think the mistake comes from people having osmotically intuited that final “s” sounds are not pronounced in French)
Hyper correcting also is why when people want to use their “best English” like in tv interviews and other formal occasions they will use “I” when “me” is actually correct.
However when you get to Italian pronunciation you are led astray. veDEre, accent on second syllable. That stress changes to first syllable in I You and They but you plural veDEte and we veDIAmo go back to second syllable. paiSAno also has second syllable stressed. Dropping the last syllable rarely change the natural stress. Indeed, truncating a word requires it to rely more on its natural stress profile because there are now fewer parts of the word being made explicit for comprehension.

Posted by: Joe at August 23, 2024 12:37 PM (RGa0l)

268 "And just how do you pronounce this Yellow Fruit (*shows picture*) , Mr. Lemon?"

Posted by: LASue at August 23, 2024 12:37 PM (YDB6U)

269 http://tiny.cc/zz6jzz

Holy Moly Guacamole !!

Posted by: polynikes at August 23, 2024 12:36 PM (B1dzx)

She has . . . kind eyes.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 23, 2024 12:37 PM (i24o9)

270 I couldn't roll my "r"s either, until I studied Spanish in high school. I taught myself how to do it by saying a long "a" between successive "r" sounds ("rararara") and then gradually getting rid of the "a". Presto, I could now roll "r"s!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2024 12:37 PM (v6JzV)

271 This busty bikini brunette was once approached for one of those "man on the street" interviews, but told the journalist that she doesn't speak to subhumans in the press:
http://tiny.cc/zz6jzz

She looks like Molly Ephraim, the 2nd daughter (Mandy) in Last Man Standing.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 23, 2024 12:37 PM (xCA6C)

272 But if we guess wrong, well: RACIST.

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"You're over-analyzing this, white devil; you're RACIST for merely breathing, h8r!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 23, 2024 12:37 PM (M5J6O)

273 Bullcrap!

It's boy-aar-DEE

Posted by: Chef Boyardee at August 23, 2024 12:38 PM (Y1sOo)

274 That costs extra.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 23, 2024 12:35 PM (dTTBf)
++++
*snort*

Well played.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2024 12:38 PM (HnUIn)

275
TJM - "Slight bulge over bikini bottom. Would not bang."
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at

Ummmm….those are ab muscles and not fat or even skin. Defined lower abs.

Posted by: Piper at August 23, 2024 12:38 PM (2N3ca)

276 "So I'm a racist, Don Le-Mon? Okay, then, I'm a racist. Get out of my way, you're blocking the sidewalk."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2024 12:38 PM (J2vNu)

277 I'll pronounce her name correctly when she pronounces it at a press conference.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 23, 2024 12:36 PM (qky8v)
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She's more likely to tell you the color of her pantsuit.

Posted by: Axeman at August 23, 2024 12:38 PM (krQz2)

278 215 193 Say it right the first time - difficulty level : Polish

Wojciech Szczęście
Posted by: Polish guy
_____

Woy-chek Shish-ewsh-kee ?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 23, 2024 12:28 PM (fs1hN)

Veeshek Shenzi

I learned that whatever you think it's supposed to be, it isn't. And the z has three different pronunciations. Polish was the hardest language I studied, and I studied Greek and Mandarin.

Posted by: Moki at August 23, 2024 12:38 PM (wLjpr)

279
I am still puzzled as to why Harris would not want the guy who got the most votes in history on the stage with her? Something seems off…

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at August 23, 2024 12:34 PM

Trump was probably busy. Oh, you mean the most ballots pulled out from under the table after the horrific flooding from a stopped up toilet?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 23, 2024 12:38 PM (RKVpM)

280 batman (n.)

"officer's servant," originally military title for "man in charge of a bat-horse and its load," 1755, from bat "pack-saddle" (late 14c.), from Old French bast (Modern French bât), from Late Latin bastum (see baton). Hence also batwoman (1941).

Posted by: Don Black at August 23, 2024 12:38 PM (/7KEl)

281 She's been a bad girl and needs a firm spanking.
Posted by: Robert

And we all know what comes after the spanking. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at August 23, 2024 12:35 PM (ZELaS)

A rousing dialogue on the virtues of different schools of economics?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 23, 2024 12:39 PM (i24o9)

282 When Lemon is out doing man-in-the-street stuff is he accompanied by an armed guard?

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 23, 2024 12:39 PM (FfSAJ)

283 Posted by: whig at August 23, 2024 12:36 PM (kW+z9)

Yep. Pork, Beef, Poultry, Mutton are the upper class examples. Fish remained Fish because the French word for fish sounds like poison.

Posted by: polynikes at August 23, 2024 12:39 PM (B1dzx)

284 She looks like Molly Ephraim, the 2nd daughter (Mandy) in Last Man Standing.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 23, 2024

***
She does -- though Molly always had a livelier face. In some ways she (Molly, I mean) reminds me of the young Liz Taylor.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2024 12:40 PM (J2vNu)

285 "Tucker Carlson was taking heat for purposely pronouncing Kamala's name wrong, he put together a montage showing about four different ways she has said her own name."

We NEED that video.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 23, 2024 12:40 PM (Cus5s)

286 Who cares how she pronounces it. In about a year, no one will remember her anyway.

Promise?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 23, 2024 12:40 PM (bihoh)

287 She's more likely to tell you the color of her pantsuit.
Posted by: Axeman at August 23, 2024 12:38 PM (krQz2)

Someone needs to work on her wardrobe.. Enough with the manly pantsuits.. I think Michelle Obama's dresser is available..

Posted by: It's me donna at August 23, 2024 12:40 PM (IyPmt)

288 203 Every now and then I hear Peter Jennings' voice in my head:

"Nick-uhl-A-gua."

cringe.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 23, 2024 12:27 PM (wzAuc)

Today, people would see "Knee-ha-rrrra-wah".

Posted by: XTC at August 23, 2024 12:40 PM (UnA8+)

289
Warning: Sabo has a poster out of Michelle Obama. Once you see it you can not un-see it.

Of course Ace should post it. I think he likes us that way.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 23, 2024 12:40 PM (RKVpM)

290 @280 I believe "bat-horse and its load " was a pron film

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 23, 2024 12:40 PM (qKpsC)

291 Her policies are a guessing game. Her name is a guessing game. Throw a dart at a phone book and you'll likely hit someone on her body count.

This country is a sick joke.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2024 12:40 PM (4DWWO)

292 I just call her "Cheap, no-good Whore". It kind of just rolls off the tongue.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 23, 2024 12:41 PM (xIWcS)

293 Good thing c*nt is pronounced the same in any language.

Saves me from sounding racist in so many situations.

Posted by: Sifty at August 23, 2024 12:41 PM (PEvHb)

294 @251

>>I have one of the simplest most widespread single syllable surnames in the English speaking world I discovered it can be misspelled!

Smythe?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 23, 2024 12:41 PM (XV/Pl)

295 That costs extra.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

In the words of ZZ Top: Just got paid today. Gotta pocketful of change.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at August 23, 2024 12:41 PM (FxH7T)

296 Tucker Carlson was taking heat for purposely pronouncing Kamala's name wrong, he put together a montage showing about four different ways she has said her own name."

We NEED that video.
Posted by: illiniwek at August 23, 2024 12:40 PM (Cus5s)

Yes, along with some variations from Slow Joe, too.

Posted by: LASue at August 23, 2024 12:41 PM (YDB6U)

297 Woy-chek Shish-ewsh-kee ?

this guy knows how to Pole
____

I assumed I was wrong since for the "cie" in the first name and the "cie" in the last name I wrote different prononciations. But if I used the first one, the last name would be "Shish-ewsh-che", which if said out loud would cause me to spray pierogie all over my screen.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 23, 2024 12:41 PM (fs1hN)

298 280 batman (n.)

"officer's servant," originally military title for "man in charge of a bat-horse and its load," 1755, from bat "pack-saddle" (late 14c.), from Old French bast (Modern French bât), from Late Latin bastum (see baton). Hence also batwoman (1941).

hmm. *scribbles note* batman and robin running around in the middle ages

Posted by: anachronda at August 23, 2024 12:41 PM (oY6Yp)

299 Someday the majority of folks will find out that the 95% Dem voting of black people are not actual voters, but ballots that have been filled out for decades in inner cities.

They will find out because shit midas decided to open up the same plan to all areas not just inner cities that republicans cannot travel without seal team escort.

someday

Posted by: Inogame at August 23, 2024 12:41 PM (53oGX)

300 And we all know what comes after the spanking. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at August 23, 2024 12:35 PM (ZELaS)

A rousing dialogue on the virtues of different schools of economics?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 23, 2024 12:39 PM (i24o9)

A body like that *and* she's down with the Austrian School?

I will fight any man to the death for her love.

Posted by: Robert at August 23, 2024 12:42 PM (ha9wx)

301 Big Mike’s dresser must be good to make a man look close to feminine

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at August 23, 2024 12:42 PM (7qjU6)

302 batman (n.)

"officer's servant," originally military title for "man in charge of a bat-horse and its load," 1755, from bat "pack-saddle" (late 14c.), from Old French bast (Modern French bât), from Late Latin bastum (see baton). Hence also batwoman (1941).
Posted by: Don Black at August 23, 2024

***
Is that where that came from! The first time I heard of the song "I was Kaiser Bill's Batman," I pictured a German leader with a caped crimefighter alongside him.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2024 12:42 PM (J2vNu)

303 I can only pronounce Polish words when they are transliterated into Cyrillic.

Cyrillic is superior to the Latin alphabet when it comes to Slavic languages.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2024 12:42 PM (v6JzV)

304 The video of her talk-lecturing Ellen about how it's Kam-ela and how you remember it because it rhymes with Pamela, was scrubbed from the entire internet.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2024 12:42 PM (4DWWO)

305 Watching that pretentious ass is infuriating. Lemon should be kicked in the balls with extreme prejudice.

Posted by: Halfhand at August 23, 2024 12:42 PM (fWLUN)

306 @251

>>I have one of the simplest most widespread single syllable surnames in the English speaking world I discovered it can be misspelled!

Smythe?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 23, 2024 12:41 PM (XV/Pl)

Same thing with my first name. Pretty mind-boggling.

Posted by: LASue at August 23, 2024 12:43 PM (YDB6U)

307 I've gotten to the point where the only two words I need when talking to a Democrat are "Fuck" and "You".

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 23, 2024 12:43 PM (xIWcS)

308 >>>the stress on the second syllable

the stress on the second sylLABle?

Posted by: m at August 23, 2024 12:43 PM (64Zez)

309 278 Polish was the hardest language I studied, and I studied Greek and Mandarin.
Posted by: Moki at August 23, 2024 12:38 PM (wLjpr)

Mandarin and Arabic seem like they'd be the absolute hardest.

Not just to learn how to speak, but also to be able to _write_.

There's just no way I'd be able to learn to write Hanzi or Arab Script correctly.

Posted by: XTC at August 23, 2024 12:43 PM (UnA8+)

310 nope

Posted by: Don Black at August 23, 2024 12:43 PM (/7KEl)

311 Watching that pretentious ass is infuriating. Lemon should be kicked in the balls with extreme prejudice.
Posted by: Halfhand at August 23, 2024 12:42 PM (fWLUN)

You'll have to aim for his mouth

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2024 12:43 PM (4DWWO)

312 I recently was corrected on the pronunciation of the name Blythe (generally). Hard TH, not soft -- I was told it's the same as the adjective "blithe." Felt rather ashamed having said it with the hard TH all these years. But I'm still not hearing the distinction after listening to several pronos online.

PRO-noes, BTW.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 23, 2024 12:44 PM (wzAuc)

313 I just call her "Cheap, no-good Whore". It kind of just rolls off the tongue.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 23, 2024 12:41 PM (xIWcS)

Cocksucker.

Posted by: Al Swearengen at August 23, 2024 12:44 PM (i24o9)

314 Nasty bitch faced lying whore.

Her native American name.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 23, 2024 12:44 PM (8xbU2)

315 Mandela Obama Kamala

Posted by: m at August 23, 2024 12:44 PM (64Zez)

316 225 How about cache ?
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cachet [cashay] style
cache [cash] a hidden store
caché [cashay] is the past participle of the verb cacher to hide.

Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 23, 2024 12:44 PM (c39uV)

317 310 nope

could you be more .... specific?

Posted by: om at August 23, 2024 12:44 PM (oY6Yp)

318 Polish was the hardest language I studied, and I studied Greek and Mandarin.
Posted by: Moki at August 23, 2024 12:38 PM (wLjpr)

Mandarin and Arabic seem like they'd be the absolute hardest.

Not just to learn how to speak, but also to be able to _write_.

There's just no way I'd be able to learn to write Hanzi or Arab Script correctly.
Posted by: XTC at August 23, 2024 12:43 PM (UnA8+)
______

"Meh"

-- Klingon

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 23, 2024 12:44 PM (iFTx/)

319 Kamala and her name, trannies and their pronouns, same game as old codgers and their bitching about hats worn indoors back in the day.

Some people - most, really - get a real damn thrill down their leg by giving a scolding.

Posted by: Who Cares at August 23, 2024 12:44 PM (dVxi/)

320 Update: People say there's an even bigger reason people say "KaMAla" -- there was a pro wrestler named Kamala the Ugandan, and he pronounced it with the stress on the second syllable.

--------------

Is that YOU-gan-dan or U-GAHN-dun?

#DoingTheWorkOverHereBoss

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 23, 2024 12:45 PM (M5J6O)

321 If Don LeMon talked to me like that, I'd slap the smirk off his face.

I would say, "KAmala/KaMAla? Who knows how to pronounce her name? We've hardly heard her name for 3 1/2 years. A month ago you all were facepalming over the mere POSSIBILITY that you would be reduced to having her as your choice. So don't expect ME to learn how to pronounce her name."

The people of every foreign country where I have lived has pronounced my name THEIR way, not my way, and I didn't have a shit fit about it.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 23, 2024 12:45 PM (w6EFb)

322 pronounced 'BAT mn', like the 2nd syllable barely exists

Posted by: Don Black at August 23, 2024 12:45 PM (/7KEl)

323 The capital of Uganda is called, wait for it. ....... KAMPALA.
Pronounced as in CAMP_ALA --- both A as in TA (thanks).
Remove the P and we have KAMALA.
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If I have misunderstood Ace's phonetics then my apologies but I have never understood the strange way dictionaries show the pronounciation of words. That aside we have this:
"Vedere" -- to see -- is pronounced "VAY-day-ray," not vay-DAY-ray, because the whole "-ere" ending is the infinitive ending for verbs, and so doesn't get stressed.
Your VAY-day-ray then sounds the same as SAY_DAY_RAY. Funny word indeed. Try VEH_DEH_REH. Those Es are staccato E as in English THE or the Spanish e in TRES.
For fun, SEDERE means to sit and also arse.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i Socialisti sono tutti ladri e bugiardi #38 at August 23, 2024 12:45 PM (qfLjt)

324 316 225 How about cache ?
-------
cachet [cashay] style
cache [cash] a hidden store
caché [cashay] is the past participle of the verb cacher to hide.
Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 23, 2024 12:44 PM (c39uV)

That's catchy!

Posted by: m at August 23, 2024 12:45 PM (64Zez)

325 How do you pronounce worcestershire?

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 23, 2024 12:45 PM (FfSAJ)

326 Demanding a foreign word be pronounced as the native speakers pronounce it is a Twitter PhD in linguistics---shallow shit for nitwits to puff out in pretend intelligence.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 23, 2024 12:45 PM (qky8v)

327 "Roundheel" is a good pronunciation of her name, too.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2024 12:46 PM (HnUIn)

328 Colleague of mine who happens to be a black woman on Kamala talking about her stepchildren.

“Those ain’t your kids, ho”.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 23, 2024 12:46 PM (ibKjr)

329 Chilean Strongman Pino-shay......
---your betters in the media.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 23, 2024 12:46 PM (34Ss2)

330 How do you pronounce worcestershire?
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 23, 2024 12:45 PM (FfSAJ)
++++
Literally nobody knows.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2024 12:46 PM (HnUIn)

331 @318 Frasier doing the Hebrew prayer at his son's Bar mitzvah entirely in Klingon was a riot

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 23, 2024 12:46 PM (qKpsC)

332 Why is anyone calling this putang by her first name anyway? Call her "Harris." Nobody says "Donald" when they are referring to Trump. It's always "Trump." Or "Biden." Or "Obama."

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 23, 2024 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

333 sorry no
sources and methods, you see

Posted by: Don Black at August 23, 2024 12:47 PM (/7KEl)

334 Kamala and her name, trannies and their pronouns, same game as old codgers and their bitching about hats worn indoors back in the day.

Some people - most, really - get a real damn thrill down their leg by giving a scolding.

Posted by: Who Cares at August 23, 2024 12:44 PM (dVxi/)

----------------

Whomever here came up with the collective noun for a "Scold of Karens" should receive a Lifetime AoSHQ VIP Membership.

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 23, 2024 12:47 PM (M5J6O)

335 Why is anyone calling this putang by her first name anyway? Call her "Harris." Nobody says "Donald" when they are referring to Trump. It's always "Trump." Or "Biden." Or "Obama."
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 23, 2024 12:46 PM (iFTx/)
++++
:: whistles nonchalantly ::

Posted by: Comment 37 at August 23, 2024 12:47 PM (HnUIn)

336
There's just no way I'd be able to learn to write Hanzi or Arab Script correctly.
Posted by: XTC at August 23, 2024 12:43 PM (UnA8+)

I think it's because the letter characters are completely different. You have to learn a new alphabet in order to read and speak the language. Polish is devious - it's the Roman alphabet, but the pronunciation has nothing to do with the usual phonics. Unlearning English phonics to learn Polish was something I simply could not manage.

Posted by: Moki at August 23, 2024 12:47 PM (wLjpr)

337 @330

>>Literally nobody knows.

I just call it anchovy sauce and call it a day.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 23, 2024 12:47 PM (XV/Pl)

338 Didn't Obama make up foreign pronunciations for words? Like refused to pronounce it the English way so as not to sound like some low IQ hick, but then just pretend it's pronounced some other way?

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2024 12:47 PM (4DWWO)

339 "No, it's kind of an a-arrgghh-sound, at the back of the throat."

"The Black Beast of Aarrgghh!"

Posted by: Tom Perry at August 23, 2024 12:47 PM (MX0bI)

340 How many of Bidens 81 million votes do we all think we're manufactured? 5%?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 23, 2024 12:47 PM (1FWWQ)

341
Sabo - "Let it all hang out in Chicago"

https://t.ly/8qAtj

/ You may ask yourself, "Did he go there?"

// Oh yeah, he went there.

/// Not for work computer

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 23, 2024 12:47 PM (RKVpM)

342 Why is anyone calling this putang by her first name anyway? Call her "Harris." Nobody says "Donald" when they are referring to Trump. It's always "Trump." Or "Biden." Or "Obama."

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 23, 2024 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

---------------

I agitated early on for calling her Mrs. Emhoff.

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 23, 2024 12:48 PM (M5J6O)

343 15 Kamala?
With two Gs?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 23, 2024 12:04 PM (U4Bzp)
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Only if she gargles with it.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i Socialisti sono tutti ladri e bugiardi #39 at August 23, 2024 12:48 PM (qfLjt)

344 The video of her talk-lecturing Ellen about how it's Kam-ela and how you remember it because it rhymes with Pamela, was scrubbed from the entire internet.
Posted by: ... at August 23, 2024 12:42 PM (4DWWO)

I couldn't find that but it's probably from this 2018 appearance. But bizarrely, the attached story by CNN basically calls her a liar and fraud.

https://tinyurl.com/y4uhaph7

Posted by: LASue at August 23, 2024 12:48 PM (YDB6U)

345 Don Lemon gets all jiggy when he can compel someone to obey his commands. It's a classic Lemon power trip.

I'm not using her first name at all. It's Harris all the way.

Posted by: mrp at August 23, 2024 12:48 PM (rj6Yv)

346 340 How many of Bidens 81 million votes do we all think we're manufactured? 5%?
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 23, 2024 12:47 PM (1FW

Half

Posted by: It's me donna at August 23, 2024 12:48 PM (IyPmt)

347 325 How do you pronounce worcestershire?
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 23, 2024 12:45 PM (FfSAJ)

Lea and Perrins

Posted by: Moki at August 23, 2024 12:48 PM (wLjpr)

348 In other news, Don Quixote found his dragon.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 23, 2024 12:48 PM (SR29e)

349 330 How do you pronounce worcestershire?
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 23, 2024 12:45 PM (FfSAJ)
++++
Literally nobody knows.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2024 12:46 PM (HnUIn)

It was the becestershire of times; it was the worcestershire of times.

Posted by: m at August 23, 2024 12:48 PM (64Zez)

350 So we were all racist when we said o-BA-ma? It's hard to keep up.

Posted by: SuperDaveOsborne at August 23, 2024 12:48 PM (YB5GJ)

351 I like to pronounce with a sort of East-coast accent:

Commie Liar.

Posted by: Axeman at August 23, 2024 12:48 PM (krQz2)

352 I'm actually sick of even the local newscasters - doing the fucking weather for crying out loud - have to trill their r's whenever pronouncing a Hispanic name.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 23, 2024 12:48 PM (xIWcS)

353 7 If the ‘not allowed to look her in the eye’ story about her less important staff is true then we have a true psychopath running for President.
Posted by: polynikes
===
TBF. Wouldn't be the first time we had a brittle narcissist with a substance abuse problem in the Whitehouse...

Posted by: Repetitive suffering at August 23, 2024 12:48 PM (I3SCU)

354 336 There's just no way I'd be able to learn to write Hanzi or Arab Script correctly.
Posted by: XTC at August 23, 2024 12:43 PM (UnA8+)

I think it's because the letter characters are completely different.

the fellow that created written cherokee knew what literacy was, but was not, himself, literate.

Posted by: anachronda at August 23, 2024 12:49 PM (oY6Yp)

355 woost tuh shur

Posted by: Don Black at August 23, 2024 12:49 PM (/7KEl)

356 Sabo - "Let it all hang out in Chicago"

https://t.ly/8qAtj

/ You may ask yourself, "Did he go there?"

// Oh yeah, he went there.

/// Not for work computer

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 23, 2024 12:47 PM (RKVpM)

---------------

LMAO

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 23, 2024 12:49 PM (M5J6O)

357 Obama pronouncing corpsmen as "corpse men " was the height of Obama stupid

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 23, 2024 12:49 PM (qKpsC)

358 I recall Harris defining pronunciation as comma la.

We can't pronounce her name, we don't know what she stands for, nor does she. And, as bad as she is, how is she gonna cope with Dougie, Timmy, and Barack?

Oh, my God, what a fuckin' nightmare! | My Cousin Vinny

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too. at August 23, 2024 12:49 PM (NFX2v)

359 No, it's kind of an a-arrgghh-sound, at the back of the throat.
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Or as KAmala calls it, Wednesday.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2024 12:49 PM (4DWWO)

360 *assigns Hungarian homework due Monday*

Posted by: Miklos Berlitz at August 23, 2024 12:49 PM (lSyD7)

361 I pronounce it Com Uuu Nist

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 23, 2024 12:49 PM (1FWWQ)

362 330 How do you pronounce worcestershire?
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 23, 2024 12:45 PM (FfSAJ)
++++
Literally nobody knows.
----------------
Pronouce Peadbody like a Bostonian. Those guys are fooked.

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 23, 2024 12:49 PM (FmapG)

363 Chinese is a pain in the ass to both speak and write -- tones and characters.

The grammar is pretty easy, but the tones and characters (of which there are two sets -- traditional and simplified) did me in.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2024 12:49 PM (v6JzV)

364 Posted by: Who Cares at August 23, 2024 12:44 PM (dVxi/)

I'm glad you never scold, Sco...uhh, "Who cares"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 23, 2024 12:50 PM (dTTBf)

365 I think the guy in the 2nd video was way too polite. When Lemon walked him through it like he was a child, the guy could have said "Yes, I know what all of those things are. I also know what a douche-bag failed journalist poofter is".

Drop mic.

Posted by: Maggots Union Local 007 at August 23, 2024 12:50 PM (oiNtH)

366 It's pronounced coa la

Posted by: Koala bears everywher at August 23, 2024 12:50 PM (uBBbP)

367 325 How do you pronounce worcestershire?

WOO-stuh-shuh, just like it's spelled.

Posted by: anachronda at August 23, 2024 12:50 PM (oY6Yp)

368 Lea and Perrins
Posted by: Moki at August 23, 2024 12:48 PM (wLjpr)

English fish sauce.

Posted by: mrp at August 23, 2024 12:50 PM (rj6Yv)

369 Off slimy maggot sock!

Posted by: Cheri at August 23, 2024 12:50 PM (oiNtH)

370 351 I like to pronounce with a sort of East-coast accent:

Commie Liar.
Posted by: Axeman at August 23, 2024 12:48 PM (krQz2)

LOL! PDT HAS to say:

Commie La

Posted by: m at August 23, 2024 12:50 PM (64Zez)

371 >So we were all racist when we said o-BA-ma?
---

yes
the proper pronounciation is 'jug-eared f***stick'

Posted by: Don Black at August 23, 2024 12:50 PM (/7KEl)

372 332 Why is anyone calling this putang by her first name anyway? Call her "Harris." Nobody says "Donald" when they are referring to Trump. It's always "Trump." Or "Biden." Or "Obama."

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 23, 2024 12:46 PM

Because its sounds ethnic which she banks on. If her first name were Martha, they'd refer her to as Harris.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 23, 2024 12:50 PM (+oR7L)

373 Speaking of pronunciation, the only thing missing from anytime Biden speaks, is the German accent. Especially when he gets angry.

The comparisons to Hitler just write themselves.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 23, 2024 12:51 PM (xIWcS)

374 How do you pronounce worcestershire?
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 23, 2024

***
"Hand me the fookin' steak sauce"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2024 12:51 PM (J2vNu)

375 Foreign language is definitely not my strong suit though I can get away simple Spanish. Though in my defense I never really focused on learning any as I am just an ugly American who thinks English is good enough.

Posted by: polynikes at August 23, 2024 12:51 PM (B1dzx)

376 365 I think the guy in the 2nd video was way too polite. When Lemon walked him through it like he was a child, the guy could have said "Yes, I know what all of those things are. I also know what a douche-bag failed journalist poofter is".

Drop mic.
Posted by: Maggots Union Local 007 at August 23, 2024 12:50 PM (oiNtH)

I think he was getting his phone ready to take a photo of Don Lemon for, like, maybe his mom.

Posted by: m at August 23, 2024 12:51 PM (64Zez)

377 Kamalatoe?

Is that how you pronounce it?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 23, 2024 12:51 PM (SR29e)

378 My last name was French and ended in a T.. Everyone pronounced the T when it was meant to be silent... Bugged the hell out of me

Posted by: It's me donna at August 23, 2024 12:32 PM (IyPmt)

---------------

Your last name was "Bigot?"

/LOL

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 23, 2024 12:51 PM (M5J6O)

379 And the hardest part about learning Arabic or Hebrew would be getting used to writing from right to left.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2024 12:52 PM (v6JzV)

380 Him Mal yas or Him a lay as.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 23, 2024 12:52 PM (t/2Uw)

381 So we were all racist when we said o-BA-ma?

Barry O'Bama, the black Irish leprechaun.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 23, 2024 12:52 PM (+oR7L)

382 Accent for her name is on the first syllable, as in "Jihad" or "Taquiyya"

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2024 12:52 PM (4DWWO)

383 Him: How do you say Kamala?

Me: Who the fuck cares?

That's all.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 23, 2024 12:52 PM (KbCG3)

384 Your last name was "Bigot?"

/LOL
Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 23, 2024 12:51 PM (M5J6O)

Pronounced Beejoe.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 23, 2024 12:52 PM (FfSAJ)

385 378 My last name was French and ended in a T.. Everyone pronounced the T when it was meant to be silent... Bugged the hell out of me

Posted by: It's me donna at August 23, 2024 12:32 PM (IyPmt)

---------------

Your last name was "Bigot?"

/LOL
Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 23, 2024 12:51 PM (M5J6O)

Gadot?

Posted by: m at August 23, 2024 12:52 PM (64Zez)

386 What’s a Yout ?

Posted by: polynikes at August 23, 2024 12:52 PM (B1dzx)

387 Why is anyone calling this putang by her first name anyway?
---
Whore-ass?

Posted by: Axeman at August 23, 2024 12:52 PM (krQz2)

388 Barack Hussein Obama,. Hussein for short.

Posted by: fd at August 23, 2024 12:53 PM (vFG9F)

389 Crap……Youte

Posted by: polynikes at August 23, 2024 12:53 PM (B1dzx)

390 Obama pronouncing corpsmen as "corpse men " was the height of Obama stupid

Arrogantly done on purpose.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 23, 2024 12:53 PM (8xbU2)

391 How do you pronounce worcestershire?
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 23, 2024
*
Lea and Perrins
Posted by: Moki at August 23, 2024

***
Exactly how my father pronounced it!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2024 12:53 PM (J2vNu)

392 Because it's all about her.

Posted by: m at August 23, 2024 12:53 PM (64Zez)

393 Speaking of pronunciation, the only thing missing from anytime Biden speaks, is the German accent. Especially when he gets angry.

The comparisons to Hitler just write themselves.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 23, 2024 12:51 PM (xIWcS)

--------------

It would be hilarious to #DeepFake his face and voice in one of those "Downfall" Hitler parody videos.

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 23, 2024 12:53 PM (M5J6O)

394 Huked on fonicks werked for mee!

Posted by: Below Grade Level at August 23, 2024 12:53 PM (CV8a5)

395 It's pronounced Azz we pay.

I TS FRENCH!!!

Posted by: Asswipe Jones at August 23, 2024 12:53 PM (uBBbP)

396 “ This is all homework, but you don't have to do it, because Italians are white, and white people do not have culture at all, so you cannot be guilty of cultural appropriation with white culture, as they have no culture, and you also do not have to respect that culture, because it does not exist.”

Sono offeso.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 23, 2024 12:53 PM (ibKjr)

397 He should have asked Lemon if he spoke Jive.

Posted by: polynikes at August 23, 2024 12:54 PM (B1dzx)

398 Al Uuu Min Ium

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 23, 2024 12:54 PM (1FWWQ)

399 One of the funniest skits on the old SNL was the word association game with Chevy Chase and Richard Pryor. They could never get away with that skit today. The NBC studios would burn.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 23, 2024 12:54 PM (iODuv)

400 What’s a Yout ?

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 23, 2024 12:54 PM (8xbU2)

401 400

Posted by: m at August 23, 2024 12:54 PM (64Zez)

402 394 Huked on fonicks werked for mee!

Posted by: Below Grade Level at August 23, 2024 12:53 PM (CV8a5)

We're not gonna sell a lot of tapes that way.

*A tremendous bit

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 23, 2024 12:54 PM (KbCG3)

403 I used to live right outside Worcester, Ma.
Always amusing to hear people mispronounce.
Worchester was the most common.
But that's why I know how to pronounce Worcestershire.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 23, 2024 12:54 PM (t/2Uw)

404 The results can't be what he was hoping for, though I guess he did manufacture a viral video for shimself.

I suspect Trump will get 90%+ of small business owners so if LeMon went to a place without a lot of gubmint jobs he would find a bunch of people voting for Trump.

Gubmint workers though will vote at an absurd rate for Uncle Sugar which is currently Kamala.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2024 12:54 PM (oZhjI)

405 It's pronounced Azz we pay.

I TS FRENCH!!!
Posted by: Asswipe Jones at August 23, 2024 12:53 PM (uBBbP)
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Rob Schneider had the best role in that skit.

Posted by: Axeman at August 23, 2024 12:55 PM (krQz2)

406 Because it's all about her AND she has no sense of humor.

Posted by: m at August 23, 2024 12:55 PM (64Zez)

407 Worcestershire.

Dad pronounced it "what's this here sauce"

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Flightless Icky Weirdo at August 23, 2024 12:55 PM (xPJvm)

408 322 pronounced 'BAT mn', like the 2nd syllable barely exists
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Yes; not bat-man the TV etc. character.

A city council member here used to be called an 'alderman' but the usage was attacked for sexism over the 'man' part.

I recall a woman alderman pointing out that it was pronounced alder-mn so she had no problem with it. The leftists ended up winning that fight, unfortunately. [It came from English aldermen carrying an alder rod/stick as a sign of office or similar.]

Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 23, 2024 12:55 PM (c39uV)

409 How Don Lemon walked away with any teeth left is a testament to that bearded man's willingness to suffer pedantic condescending trivial poofters.

Posted by: Candidus at August 23, 2024 12:55 PM (XOFoc)

410 I used to live right outside Worcester, Ma.

Worcester is one of those cities that MA reduced to ruins in collecting all the graft in Boston...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2024 12:55 PM (oZhjI)

411

KAMALA THE UGANDAN GIANT!!!

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzx at August 23, 2024 12:55 PM (kOdqn)

412 Oh, by the way, it's pronounced Wooster

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 23, 2024 12:55 PM (t/2Uw)

413 Huked on fonicks werked for mee!
Posted by: Below Grade Level at August 23, 2024

***
Too munths ago I couldn' even spell "stoodint," and now I are one at [fill in name of school]!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2024 12:55 PM (J2vNu)

414 Anyone ask Count DeMoney yet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 23, 2024 12:55 PM (SR29e)

415 407 Worcestershire.

Dad pronounced it "what's this here sauce"
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Flightless Icky Weirdo at August 23, 2024 12:55 PM (xPJvm)

; )

Posted by: m at August 23, 2024 12:55 PM (64Zez)

416 CBS News - Politics
Secret Service places at least 5 agents on leave in Trump assassination attempt probe

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too. at August 23, 2024 12:55 PM (NFX2v)

417 Accent for her name is on the first syllable, as in "Jihad" or "Taquiyya"

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2024 12:52 PM (4DWWO)

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And "Hijab."

Although, one could argue it's on the second syllable as in "i KEEL you!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 23, 2024 12:56 PM (M5J6O)

418 Wer-steh-shire.

Posted by: Axeman at August 23, 2024 12:56 PM (krQz2)

419 The weekend is here but not feeling well right now

Posted by: Skip at August 23, 2024 12:56 PM (fwDg9)

420 I've never heard anyone who actually voted for Trump-and is not a friend of his or has not known him a long time- call him "Donald", so I think the questions about the pronunciation of Kamala's name not only have to do with shaming people who don't pronounce it "properly" but also trying to make Ms. Harris approachable. She's not an awful out of touch politician even though she is. She's your friend who wants the best for you. Bleech!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 23, 2024 12:56 PM (dTTBf)

421 ITS HEDLY!

Posted by: Heddy lamar at August 23, 2024 12:56 PM (uBBbP)

422 Oh Morons, my name is pronounced AUGHT teen dash UNO

Get it right or I'll report you to the Stasi...

Oh and my pronouns are HE/IS/AWESOME

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2024 12:56 PM (oZhjI)

423 I'm not using her first name at all. It's Harris all the way.[/i\

Harris is more succinct than Empty Headed Bitch. Clever.

Posted by: Who Cares at August 23, 2024 12:56 PM (dVxi/)

424 How do you pronounce worcestershire?

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 23, 2024 12:45 PM (FfSAJ)

WOOH stah sheer

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 23, 2024 12:56 PM (w6EFb)

425 If mispronouncing a scumbag politician's name is racist then it is every American's patriotic duty ro be 'racist'.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 23, 2024 12:56 PM (8dPnJ)

426 kamala-kamala-kamala-kamala-kama-
chameleon

Posted by: m at August 23, 2024 12:57 PM (64Zez)

427 No wait, that's Wer-steh-shur

Posted by: Axeman at August 23, 2024 12:57 PM (krQz2)

428 Posted by: Skip at August 23, 2024 12:56 PM (fwDg9)

Sorry to hear that, Skip.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 23, 2024 12:57 PM (dTTBf)

429 Late to the thread (as usual...)

I have a little speech I almost always have to give when someone sees my first name for the first time or is struggling with it:

Them: "Oh, how do you pronounce your name?"

Me: Well, it suppose it could depend on where in the world we are. If we were in Greece, or the Eastern Mediterranean, it's "Air-meez". If we're in Europe or any Spanish-influenced country, it's "air-Mess". If we're in a certain frou-frou store, it's "air-Mase". I was born in Kansas, so I pronounce it "Her-mez".

Posted by: goozer at August 23, 2024 12:57 PM (aWAkn)

430 416 CBS News - Politics
Secret Service places at least 5 agents on leave in Trump assassination attempt probe
Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too. at August 23, 2024 12:55 PM (NFX2v)

For which assassination attempt?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 23, 2024 12:57 PM (uBBbP)

431 How to remember Worcester is pronounced wooster [and wooster-shur for the sauce and the English county!]

There was a young lady of Worcester
Who dreamt that a rooster seduced her.
She woke with a scream,
But 'twas only a dream
A lump in the mattress had goosed her.

Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 23, 2024 12:57 PM (c39uV)

432 169 It's "Dis-NEE."
Posted by: Bob Iger at August 23, 2024 12:23 PM

OMG Disney bought out Monty Python

Posted by: Fen at August 23, 2024 12:57 PM (iqxAx)

433 332 Why is anyone calling this putang by her first name anyway? Call her "Harris." Nobody says "Donald" when they are referring to Trump. It's always "Trump." Or "Biden." Or "Obama."
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 23, 2024 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

Exactly! *putting on feminist hat* It is overly familiar and demeaning to address her by her first name just because she's female. You don't own her!!!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 23, 2024 12:57 PM (OX9vb)

434 Obama changed his first name to sound more Muslim. He should be referred to as Barry Obama.

Posted by: polynikes at August 23, 2024 12:57 PM (B1dzx)

435 motocicletta -- note double T

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i Socialisti sono tutti ladri e bugiardi #40 at August 23, 2024 12:58 PM (qfLjt)

436
The Limeys themselves pronounce it as "Wooster" sauce.

If you pronounce it any other way, you're a horrible racist, and-

...

Well, they're mostly White Privilege bastards who thought up that pronunciation,

so if you pronounce it as "wooster" sauce,

you're a horrible White Privilege Wypipo!!!!

Carry on with the Warchestering.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 23, 2024 12:58 PM (eDfFs)

437 Oh, by the way, it's pronounced Wooster
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)

More like "WUSS-tuh," right?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2024 12:58 PM (v6JzV)

438 {Do your homework, Bigots.

#DoTheWork."

I dunno, ace, pronouncing it 'coo de grass" creates a code-confusion situation and conflates it with "mayday" and "cuts no ice"

Since as rational beings (and we generally are linguistically) we try to avoid code confusion that create false or contradictory mental constructs.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 23, 2024 12:58 PM (D7oie)

439 It's "Dis-NEE."
Posted by: Bob Iger at August 23, 2024 12:23 PM

Deeznuts

Posted by: polynikes at August 23, 2024 12:58 PM (B1dzx)

440 I've told this before but aa few years ago on a flight we were seated across from Smell My Finger. My husband's wifi name which was visible to all was DonLeMon is a sexual predator.

I snorted .

Mr. LeMon however, does have beautiful skin, although I bet I outweigh him. He's a slight little thing.

Posted by: LASue at August 23, 2024 12:58 PM (YDB6U)

441 I used to live right outside Worcester, Ma.
Always amusing to hear people mispronounce.
Worchester was the most common.
But that's why I know how to pronounce Worcestershire.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 23, 2024

***
The challenge here is street names. Kal-ee-ope instead of Cal-lye-oh-pee, Mel-poh-meen instead of Mel-POM-eh-knee, etc. I've heard a rumor that a street not far from my house named for a certain Greek philosopher is often pronounced "So-KRATS."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2024 12:58 PM (J2vNu)

442 Frahnk Enn Steen

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 23, 2024 12:58 PM (1FWWQ)

443 How do you pronounce worcestershire?
Posted by: Northernlurker
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Now do 'Leicester'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 23, 2024 12:59 PM (XeU6L)

444 EYE Gor

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 23, 2024 12:59 PM (1FWWQ)

445 George
@BehizyTweets
BREAKING: Thousands of Arizonans have shutdown the streets of Glendale to see President Trump. The rally doesn't start until 4 PM local time, which is 8 hours away

https://tinyurl.com/47x5a3wn

Posted by: redridinghood at August 23, 2024 12:59 PM (NpAcC)

446 I don't bother trying. If I have to say a foreign word, I just end it with a hairball hacking cough.

Posted by: Crotalus Atrox at August 23, 2024 12:59 PM (25QY+)

447 Disney recovery plan - charge people $1,000 so they can slap Bob Iger with a mackerel.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 23, 2024 12:59 PM (SR29e)

448 Isn't Obama pronounced Ohbumuh?

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 23, 2024 12:59 PM (FfSAJ)

449 The second video guy, who allows Lemon to exhibit Lemon's presumed intellectual superiority, looks like someone who would pay a serious price if he gave Lemon the verbal beatdown L deserved.

Posted by: mrp at August 23, 2024 12:59 PM (rj6Yv)

450 Abbie Normal

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 23, 2024 12:59 PM (1FWWQ)

451 Disney recovery plan - charge people $1,000 so they can slap Bob Iger with a mackerel.

I'll pay that but only if I can use a live electric eel.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2024 12:59 PM (oZhjI)

452 403 I used to live right outside Worcester, Ma.
Always amusing to hear people mispronounce.
Worchester was the most common.
But that's why I know how to pronounce Worcestershire.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 23, 2024 12:54 PM (t/2Uw)

In Ohio, we just went ahead and spelled it "Wooster." Of course, then, we lengthened the vowel so rhymes with booster.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 23, 2024 01:00 PM (OX9vb)

453 I saw the Pedantic Condescending Trivial Poofters open for the 4 Non Blondes on their Bigger, Better, Faster -- More! Tour in '93.

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 23, 2024 01:00 PM (M5J6O)

454 Darn, I missed the EV thread.
I always get a charge out of them.

Posted by: wth at August 23, 2024 01:00 PM (v0R5T)

455 DoNALD LayyyyMONE.

There...what do I win?

Posted by: Orson at August 23, 2024 01:00 PM (dIske)

456 Secret Service places at least 5 agents on leave in Trump assassination attempt probe
Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too. at August 23, 2024 12:55 PM (NFX2v)

Probably the ones who protected him.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2024 01:00 PM (4DWWO)

457 Now do 'Leicester'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 23, 2024 12:59 PM (XeU6L)
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I'm the least sure about that one.

Posted by: Axeman at August 23, 2024 01:01 PM (krQz2)

458
So we were all racist when we said o-BA-ma?

Barry O'Bama, the black Irish leprechaun.
Posted by: Frank Barone

Nobody is after his lucky charms.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 23, 2024 01:01 PM (63Dwl)

459 Kamala the Ugly-andan

Posted by: wth at August 23, 2024 01:01 PM (v0R5T)

460 Oh, by the way, it's pronounced Wooster
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)

More like "WUSS-tuh," right?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
Only if you were born in MA.
(This made me laugh B.)

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 23, 2024 01:01 PM (t/2Uw)

461 Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 23, 2024 01:00 PM (M5J6O)

That was a good one.

Posted by: polynikes at August 23, 2024 01:01 PM (B1dzx)

462 DoNALD LayyyyMONE.

There...what do I win?
Posted by: Orson at August 23, 2024 01:00 PM (dIske)
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Nothing. It's a trick question; the correct pronunciation is "condescending assmunch."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 23, 2024 01:01 PM (VdhcA)

463 George
@BehizyTweets
BREAKING: Thousands of Arizonans have shutdown the streets of Glendale to see President Trump. The rally doesn't start until 4 PM local time, which is 8 hours away

https://tinyurl.com/47x5a3wn

Posted by: redridinghood at August 23, 2024 12:59 PM (NpAcC)

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Awesome Sauce!

"81 milllion votes ... my ass." -- Kari Lake

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 23, 2024 01:02 PM (M5J6O)

464 Why is anyone calling this putang by her first name anyway? Call her "Harris." Nobody says "Donald" when they are referring to Trump. It's always "Trump." Or "Biden." Or "Obama."
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 23, 2024 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

"Officer Harris"

Posted by: Kindltot at August 23, 2024 01:02 PM (D7oie)

465 7 Now do 'Leicester'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 23, 2024
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I'm the least sure about that one.
Posted by: Axeman at August 23, 2024

***
Isn't that simply "Lester"?

And the old chestnut, "Cholmondeley," pronounced simply as "Chumley."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2024 01:02 PM (J2vNu)

466 @BehizyTweets
BREAKING: Thousands of Arizonans have shutdown the streets of Glendale to see President Trump. The rally doesn't start until 4 PM local time, which is 8 hours away

https://tinyurl.com/47x5a3wn
Posted by: redridinghood
......

But Fox News already called Arizona for Kamalama.

Posted by: wth at August 23, 2024 01:02 PM (v0R5T)

467 Yeah everyone loves people who are precious about themselves.

Her likeability is literally off the charts.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2024 01:02 PM (4DWWO)

468 It's Less Ter.
There is also a Leicester in MA. I lived there for a while after college

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 23, 2024 01:02 PM (t/2Uw)

469
Here in Texas, we like to hear people pronounce:

Nacogdoches.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 23, 2024 01:03 PM (eDfFs)

470 NOOD KAMALA

Posted by: Shenanigans at August 23, 2024 01:03 PM (pZ0Mr)

471 430 416 CBS News - Politics
Secret Service places at least 5 agents on leave in Trump assassination attempt probe
Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too. at August 23, 2024 12:55 PM (NFX2v)

For which assassination attempt?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless

But not the officer who filled out the manning roster.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 23, 2024 01:03 PM (8dPnJ)

472 Kamala the Ugly-andan

Posted by: wth at August 23, 2024 01:01 PM (v0R5T)

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Kamala the Klingon.

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 23, 2024 01:03 PM (M5J6O)

473 Her likeability is literally off the charts.
Posted by: ... at August 23, 2024 01:02 PM

ISWYDT 😂

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 23, 2024 01:04 PM (t/2Uw)

474 And I think that's the reason for not having any policy proposals in her convention speech. Actual policies may get some people to think "I don't like that" whereas if it's all, "My mother worked very hard and "joy, joy, joy" people can more easily vote on identity politics and "she seems like a likeable person." No; I don't think she's likeable person, but I'm nt an undecided voter who normally leans left.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 23, 2024 01:04 PM (dTTBf)

475 Here in Texas, we like to hear people pronounce:
Nacogdoches.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 23, 2024 01:03 PM (eDfFs)

I KNOW THIS ONE!!!!

It is pronounced "Bayer"

Posted by: Kindltot at August 23, 2024 01:04 PM (D7oie)

476 Here in Texas, we like to hear people pronounce:

Nacogdoches.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 23, 2024

***
I'm not sure, but I think it's like the Lousy-ana town Natchitoches -- "Nak-uh-tish"?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 23, 2024 01:04 PM (J2vNu)

477 Update: People say there's an even bigger reason people say "KaMAla" -- there was a pro wrestler named Kamala the Ugandan, and he pronounced it with the stress on the second syllable.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace

She does not have my vote so she also has no say in how I pronounce her name. BTW, I pronounce it Cum-Dumb-Ster. And that non-black cunt is raysiss for dissing my Southern Louisiana culture for calling me on it.

Posted by: BifBewalski at August 23, 2024 01:04 PM (MsrgL)

478 Here in Texas, we like to hear people pronounce:

Nacogdoches.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 23, 2024 01:03 PM (eDfFs)
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Nak-a-doshyus

Posted by: Axeman at August 23, 2024 01:04 PM (krQz2)

479 Here in Texas, we like to hear people pronounce:

Nacogdoches.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 23, 2024 01:03 PM (eDfFs)

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Wifey (born and raised in Waco) gets pissed when I try; that and Waxahachie.

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 23, 2024 01:05 PM (M5J6O)

480 I prefer "I can destroy your life with the stroke of my pen Harris". It's a bit wordy but does convey her...'essence', IMO.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 23, 2024 01:05 PM (xIWcS)

481 The SNL word association game with Chevy Chase and Richard Pryor. From 1975. Youtube link.

https://tinyurl.com/48ct6btn

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 23, 2024 01:05 PM (iODuv)

482 > Oh, by the way, it's pronounced Wooster

Isn't it Woo-stuh?

Posted by: bonhomme at August 23, 2024 01:05 PM (Odg76)

483 Leicester lester... the molester.

Goodbye, Piccadilly,
Farewell, Leicester Square!
It's a long, long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.

[BTW, it was first published in 1912 before the Great War but was popularized later.]

Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 23, 2024 01:05 PM (c39uV)

484 Man, those last several paragraphs on grammar rules had me back in English 101, eyes glazing over, thoughts turning to Italian food... pizza sounds good.
So many rules and procedures.... way too much like MATH.

Ace loves language.
I think in his second life he could've been a linguist.
A right-wing, Ewok, version of Chomsky.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 23, 2024 01:05 PM (6ydKt)

485 Now do 'Leicester'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 23, 2024 12:59 PM (XeU6L)

Already did

Posted by: Kamala at August 23, 2024 01:06 PM (4DWWO)

486 I am looking forward to the week of Sept. 9th:

9/9 - Hunter's trial starts in Los Angeles

9/10 - Trump v Harris debate

The fur will be flying that week.

Posted by: Cheri at August 23, 2024 01:07 PM (oiNtH)

487 Ace is clearly a cunning linguist.

Posted by: andycanuck (c39uV) at August 23, 2024 01:07 PM (c39uV)

488 OO-koo-LAY-lay?

It's pronounced UCK-u-leel, unless you're a cannibal sympathizer.

Posted by: Tom Perry at August 23, 2024 01:10 PM (MX0bI)

489 398 Al Uuu Min Ium

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 23, 2024 12:54 PM (1FWWQ)
----
Well yes that's how I say it and spell it. Phonetically it is much easier to say than without the i. That's why we have chromium, titanium, sodium, hafnium, magnesium, calcium .... you get the idea.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i Socialisti sono tutti ladri e bugiardi #41 at August 23, 2024 01:15 PM (qfLjt)

490 When in Rome, do like the Romans.

We ANGLICIZE foreign names and words in America.

If you dislike that, LEAVE.

And don't let the door hit you.

Posted by: Close The Fed at August 23, 2024 01:23 PM (LeNk3)

491 Some people say word nerd Ace is the best Ace.

Posted by: Wodun at August 23, 2024 01:35 PM (JQ/OL)

492 Boo fucking hoo

Posted by: Donk at August 23, 2024 01:53 PM (p0qM7)

493 How did The Marvels pronounce Kamala Khan? If it is the same as the VP, did they change this to support her pronunciation?

This is not how Indians pronounce Kamala. It is not ka MA la or commalah.

It is kuh muh luh.

So really Kamala probably adopted this pronunciation because the racist Canadians couldn't get her name right.

Posted by: MikeN at August 23, 2024 02:28 PM (HVZOH)

494 481 The SNL word association game with Chevy Chase and Richard Pryor. From 1975. Youtube link.

https://tinyurl.com/48ct6btn
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 23, 2024 01:05 PM (iODuv)

Thank you!

Posted by: m at August 23, 2024 02:34 PM (64Zez)

495 Same as the Finnish word: KAH-mah-lah.
As in "Kamala on kamalaa".

Posted by: Hal Dall at August 23, 2024 04:30 PM (KcdQ/)

496 All i think of is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWMp_z7Jnxw

Posted by: CrazyIvan at August 23, 2024 05:10 PM (GH6uj)

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