Let’s hear it for Charlie McLaughlin! Love Finnerty!!
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Love Newsmax, too!
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…IDK, I think it would make it WAY more funny if they also had to force Italian accents, German accents, and Bronx accents when appropriate on EVERY SINGLE NAME, just to see how bad they mangle it.
…good luck when you get to Ghanian names, youre gonna need it…
SNS…i am 1 million % with your first post. include all hyphens as well
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Need more proof that they are all actors taking on the role of anchors?
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Haile Selassie in Addis Ababa is not amused.
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“Rabbi Seamus Gonzales Fong was arrested today in Hell’s Kitchen…”
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One of my favorite foreign movies was “The gods must be crazy” and it all started with a Coke bottle tossed out of an airplane by a careless pilot. The Bush People spoke with clicking sounds.
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I remember watching that pompous douche Peter Jennings (back in the 80’s) pronounce foreign country names in their ‘correct tongue’. Made we want to punch the TV screen.
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My sons would roll on the floor when I’d mispronounce ethnic names on purpose in my best white ignorant dad voice. They also loved it when I’d sing their speed metal songs like Frank Sinatra.
Jason I grew up in NYC and some neighborhoods are this close to each other that you can visit Little Italy then visit Chinatown for dinner and the Chinese waiters can speak Italian (and English). Good neighbors
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I have wondered for years why we change the pronunciations of place names. What happened to Peking? It’s one thing if they completely change the name of the places involved, but to change the spelling to more closely match how a name is pronounced how a foreign language pronounces it? Especially if that language uses a different alphabet? Speaking of which, how are they spelling “Mao Tse Dung” this week?
Do we say “When in Roma…?” Do we say München and Köln are cities in Germany?
Heck, even the British pronounce thing differently. St. John is pronounced Sin Jin. There is a story from World War II where Montgomery asks Eisenhower where he learned to say “skedule” instead of “shedule.” Eisenhower replied, “In shool.” But we in the US don’t make our pronunciations follow theirs. We don’t use aluminium foil.
It seems that anything done the way the people who have made most of the developments in what it is modern society do it are not good enough.
We will eat bugs, and like it,
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…the proper pronunciation of a Democrat’s name is as follows:
Geni, my dad loved The Gods Must Be Crazy, he thought it was one of the funniest movies that he ever saw because of its total absurdity. They’d probably get banned permanently by the left if they spoke like Speedy Gonzalez the fast mouse in all of Mexico or his cousin Slowpoke Rodriguez the slowest mouse in all of Mexico who carried a big gun for protection against people who made fun of him.
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fastest mouse
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Geni
Monday, 28 April 2025, 10:31 at 10:31 am
“One of my favorite foreign movies was “The gods must be crazy” and it all started with a Coke bottle tossed out of an airplane by a careless pilot. The Bush People spoke with clicking sounds.”
…I picked Twi because we had a pair of native Twi speakers at our factory, one that also spoke broken English and one that didnt. They do make some clicks and pops that are apparently part of it, but I have no idea what they meant.
Neither did the hospital the day the non-ESL one got injured and took there. The hospital has a *HUGE* translation service, but couldnt come up with anyone at ALL to get informed consent in Twi. They were eventually forced to have our other employee who allegedly spoke both to come translate for him, which apparently worked but there is NO way they could have been sure this non-medical person was translating medical information correctly, or even if he was translating ANYTHING correctly, for all THEY knew he hated the other ones guts and wanted him to suffer…
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Rush used to do that for a lark with Nicaragua. Pretty sure that’s the one. I still mourn that man! 😢
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…I think they make up names a lot anyway. I have a half-dozen “Amadu Diallo”s at one plant alone. They tried to fire one once and fired the wrong guy a couple of times before they got the right one.
Thats pretty common in Muslim African countries anyway, to have some variant of “Muhammad”. Amadu, Mamadu, things like that, although “Ousmaine” figures in there somehow too, and its even worse with last names where you get “Ba” and that’s all you get…
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Great thread!
Now if only Mel Blanc were still around…
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Harry
Monday, 28 April 2025, 12:33 at 12:33 pm
“Now if only Mel Blanc were still around…”
…he’s here, at the end of the Korean one I posted above, wait for it at 0:43…
Or worse Pat Boone (I am not a Pat Boone fan) singing his only good song about Speedy Gonzalez with Mel Blanc as Speedy Gonzalez.
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SNS, I still laugh at that clip. And they could’ve thrown in Phuket, Thailand and Suk Muk Dik from the early 70’s comedy The Groove Tube.
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USING MY PHOTO AGAIN!!
HAVE YOUR LAWYER CALL MINE PLS
🤑
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…the Formosan restaurant I got my first (dishwashing) job in was run by a Taiwanese couple, and I never DID know my bosses’ actual first names. They told all we gweilos, hahinguis, and mehinguis to call them “Tim” and “Colleen”, because they just figured we’d mangle their REAL names, and so they were to me from the time I hired to the time I left…
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That dude is just as wicked smart as Gutfield. Maybe even smarter. The wife and I never miss him. We watched this live and she rewound it about 5 times and we laughed our asses of every time.
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The English speak the same language as we Americans do; only waaaaaay faggier.
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Camaro Denny-
Couldn’t stand him and his, “Neekahrrraaawah.”
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“Anybody know how to spell Kadddafffi correctly?”
Yes. Expired.
A si,a si…..! Don’t forget “Nee-jere” (yellow cake) instead of Niger.
Jason, look up “Richard Cheese”.
One of my favorite retro shows is, “Hogan’s Heroes”. The actor, Bob Crane in his role as Col. Hogan didn’t use a German accent even when posing as a German. Don’t know if he couldn’t do the accent or just refused to do it. All the other actors could speak like a German, even the black soldiers, Sgt. Kinchloe (Ivan Dixon) and Sgt. Baker (Kenneth Washington).
Another Hollyweirdness about the show is all th3 women on the show are dressed in 1960s fashions and hairstyles. Clearly not in line with the styles of early 1940s. Guess the producers didn’t think the audiences back then would notice the difference.
Let’s hear it for Charlie McLaughlin! Love Finnerty!!
Love Newsmax, too!
…IDK, I think it would make it WAY more funny if they also had to force Italian accents, German accents, and Bronx accents when appropriate on EVERY SINGLE NAME, just to see how bad they mangle it.
…good luck when you get to Ghanian names, youre gonna need it…
https://www.twikasa.net/non-linguistic-vocalizations-in-twi-understanding-expressive-sounds
…although I really DID admire THIS effort at Korean by a befuddled reporterette doing her best Ron Burgandy reading practice…
https://youtu.be/CaOkTKfxu44?si=gMypxeD9mFpa2Q8j
SNS…i am 1 million % with your first post. include all hyphens as well
Need more proof that they are all actors taking on the role of anchors?
Haile Selassie in Addis Ababa is not amused.
“Rabbi Seamus Gonzales Fong was arrested today in Hell’s Kitchen…”
One of my favorite foreign movies was “The gods must be crazy” and it all started with a Coke bottle tossed out of an airplane by a careless pilot. The Bush People spoke with clicking sounds.
I remember watching that pompous douche Peter Jennings (back in the 80’s) pronounce foreign country names in their ‘correct tongue’. Made we want to punch the TV screen.
My sons would roll on the floor when I’d mispronounce ethnic names on purpose in my best white ignorant dad voice. They also loved it when I’d sing their speed metal songs like Frank Sinatra.
Trrren dee Arrragua
…it was fun, if tragic, to hear all the local reporters try to pronounce “Mumyarutete” when THIS happened, this was one of the better ones…
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/police-release-body-camera-video-showing-moments-after-deadly-i-75-police-shooting/vi-AA1BEwbQ
Jason I grew up in NYC and some neighborhoods are this close to each other that you can visit Little Italy then visit Chinatown for dinner and the Chinese waiters can speak Italian (and English). Good neighbors
I have wondered for years why we change the pronunciations of place names. What happened to Peking? It’s one thing if they completely change the name of the places involved, but to change the spelling to more closely match how a name is pronounced how a foreign language pronounces it? Especially if that language uses a different alphabet? Speaking of which, how are they spelling “Mao Tse Dung” this week?
Do we say “When in Roma…?” Do we say München and Köln are cities in Germany?
Heck, even the British pronounce thing differently. St. John is pronounced Sin Jin. There is a story from World War II where Montgomery asks Eisenhower where he learned to say “skedule” instead of “shedule.” Eisenhower replied, “In shool.” But we in the US don’t make our pronunciations follow theirs. We don’t use aluminium foil.
It seems that anything done the way the people who have made most of the developments in what it is modern society do it are not good enough.
We will eat bugs, and like it,
…the proper pronunciation of a Democrat’s name is as follows:
https://youtu.be/5sBFeckXTtA?si=AgEZzMe9Vc7lLhwf
ANY Democrat.
EVERY Democrat.
…yoyre welcome..
RadioMattM, I’ve thought the same. Who decided that Mumbai was preferable to Bombay?
@SNS 10:44: “Let us show you a video of what happened but we will blur everything so you can’t see what happened.”
SNS
Amen
…and stop with the Maryland father bullshit.
Can’t say “Kiev” now, gotta say “Kyiv”. At least until we’re done with that sh!t-hole.
BTW, are they still saying “Gutter” instead of “Qatar”? And what’s up with that “Q” instead of “K” in the first place?
Anybody know how to spell Kadddafffi correctly?
MJA
Monday, 28 April 2025, 11:43 at 11:43 am
“Anybody know how to spell Kadddafffi correctly?”
DBH.
Dead By Hillary.
https://youtu.be/6DXDU48RHLU?si=XQiXopNodY-b3Rta
Geni, my dad loved The Gods Must Be Crazy, he thought it was one of the funniest movies that he ever saw because of its total absurdity. They’d probably get banned permanently by the left if they spoke like Speedy Gonzalez the fast mouse in all of Mexico or his cousin Slowpoke Rodriguez the slowest mouse in all of Mexico who carried a big gun for protection against people who made fun of him.
fastest mouse
Geni
Monday, 28 April 2025, 10:31 at 10:31 am
“One of my favorite foreign movies was “The gods must be crazy” and it all started with a Coke bottle tossed out of an airplane by a careless pilot. The Bush People spoke with clicking sounds.”
…I picked Twi because we had a pair of native Twi speakers at our factory, one that also spoke broken English and one that didnt. They do make some clicks and pops that are apparently part of it, but I have no idea what they meant.
Neither did the hospital the day the non-ESL one got injured and took there. The hospital has a *HUGE* translation service, but couldnt come up with anyone at ALL to get informed consent in Twi. They were eventually forced to have our other employee who allegedly spoke both to come translate for him, which apparently worked but there is NO way they could have been sure this non-medical person was translating medical information correctly, or even if he was translating ANYTHING correctly, for all THEY knew he hated the other ones guts and wanted him to suffer…
Rush used to do that for a lark with Nicaragua. Pretty sure that’s the one. I still mourn that man! 😢
…I think they make up names a lot anyway. I have a half-dozen “Amadu Diallo”s at one plant alone. They tried to fire one once and fired the wrong guy a couple of times before they got the right one.
Thats pretty common in Muslim African countries anyway, to have some variant of “Muhammad”. Amadu, Mamadu, things like that, although “Ousmaine” figures in there somehow too, and its even worse with last names where you get “Ba” and that’s all you get…
Great thread!
Now if only Mel Blanc were still around…
Harry
Monday, 28 April 2025, 12:33 at 12:33 pm
“Now if only Mel Blanc were still around…”
…he’s here, at the end of the Korean one I posted above, wait for it at 0:43…
https://youtu.be/CaOkTKfxu44?si=gMypxeD9mFpa2Q8j
Or worse Pat Boone (I am not a Pat Boone fan) singing his only good song about Speedy Gonzalez with Mel Blanc as Speedy Gonzalez.
SNS, I still laugh at that clip. And they could’ve thrown in Phuket, Thailand and Suk Muk Dik from the early 70’s comedy The Groove Tube.
USING MY PHOTO AGAIN!!
HAVE YOUR LAWYER CALL MINE PLS
🤑
…the Formosan restaurant I got my first (dishwashing) job in was run by a Taiwanese couple, and I never DID know my bosses’ actual first names. They told all we gweilos, hahinguis, and mehinguis to call them “Tim” and “Colleen”, because they just figured we’d mangle their REAL names, and so they were to me from the time I hired to the time I left…
That dude is just as wicked smart as Gutfield. Maybe even smarter. The wife and I never miss him. We watched this live and she rewound it about 5 times and we laughed our asses of every time.
The English speak the same language as we Americans do; only waaaaaay faggier.
Camaro Denny-
Couldn’t stand him and his, “Neekahrrraaawah.”
“Anybody know how to spell Kadddafffi correctly?”
Yes. Expired.
A si,a si…..! Don’t forget “Nee-jere” (yellow cake) instead of Niger.
Jason, look up “Richard Cheese”.
One of my favorite retro shows is, “Hogan’s Heroes”. The actor, Bob Crane in his role as Col. Hogan didn’t use a German accent even when posing as a German. Don’t know if he couldn’t do the accent or just refused to do it. All the other actors could speak like a German, even the black soldiers, Sgt. Kinchloe (Ivan Dixon) and Sgt. Baker (Kenneth Washington).
Another Hollyweirdness about the show is all th3 women on the show are dressed in 1960s fashions and hairstyles. Clearly not in line with the styles of early 1940s. Guess the producers didn’t think the audiences back then would notice the difference.