Trump fails to pronounce "Sachin Tendulkar"

[Recursion]

https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2020/feb/25/sachin-tendulkars-name-proves-tricky-for-trump-in-india-video

Yes, yes, I know cricket is like a bunch of deranged third graders trying to reconstruct baseball from memory, but come on. It's literally pronounced exactly like it's spelled.

[CatMor]

1. At this point I'm not sure trump can even pronounce his own name.

[Different Drummer]

2. There is definitely some question on that point.

DD

[lpbk2713]

3. So how's that MAGA thing going Donnie?

Impressing a lot of people?

[NurseJackie]

4. Did he also say "FILL-um" instead of "film"? Or was I hearing things?

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. He can't read the teleprompt properly, and was too lazy to prepare for the speech

Whether its his vanity and refusal to wear glasses, or because he's never been good at reading (dyslexia?), he can't cope with words he hasn't seen before. Any other public speaker with that disadvantage would read over a speech first, so he can ask someone. Not Trump, the Fox News viewer who doesn't give a toss about getting foreign names right.

[underpants]

6. Your summary of cricket is hilarious

[malaise]

8. Not to cricket fans or sports historians

Now this was hilarious

Link to tweet

[malaise]

7. Actually it's the other way around

Baseball is reconstructed cricket

[canetoad]

9. My though too

Then I remembered a game we played as kids in 60s Britain - Rounders. Did you ever play that as a kid?

Rounders
English game

Rounders, old English game that never became a seriously competitive sport, although it is probably an ancestor of baseball. The earliest reference to rounders was made in A Little Pretty Pocket-Book (1744), in which a woodcut also showed the children’s sport of baseball. The Boy’s Own Book (2nd edition, 1828) devoted a chapter to rounders. In 1889 the National Rounders Association of Liverpool and the Scottish Rounders Association were formed. A National Rounders Association was founded in 1943.



More: https://www.britannica.com/sports/rounders

[malaise]

10. And we know our cricket