Wonkette: "National Review: We Pronounce ‘Sotomayor’ However We WANT"

[jefferson_dem]

National Review: We Pronounce ‘Sotomayor’ However We WANT

The National Review The Corner blog’s Mark Krikorian hears how the people on teevee are pronouncing Sotomayor — “Zo-toe-my-OR” — and he goddamn does not care for that at all, so he goddamn will not pronounce it that way, goddamnit, fuck you all, learn to speak English.

“But there ought to be limits,” he writes.

It Sticks in My Craw

Most e-mailers were with me on the post on the pronunciation of Judge Sotomayor’s name (and a couple griped about the whole Latina/Latino thing — English dropped gender in nouns, what, 1,000 years ago?). But a couple said we should just pronounce it the way the bearer of the name prefers, including one who pronounces her name “freed” even though it’s spelled “fried,” like fried rice. (I think Cathy Seipp of blessed memory did the reverse — “sipe” instead of “seep.”) Deferring to people’s own pronunciation of their names should obviously be our first inclination, but there ought to be limits. Putting the emphasis on the final syllable of Sotomayor is unnatural in English (which is why the president stopped doing it after the first time at his press conference), unlike my correspondent’s simple preference for a monophthong over a diphthong, and insisting on an unnatural pronunciation is something we shouldn’t be giving in to.

You and your THONGS. Pronouncing a proper noun in its natural Spanish way “is something we shouldn’t be giving in to.” How is this “giving in to” anything? It’s just saying a fucking word correctly. WAH WAH WAH. How does one pronounce “Krikorian” anyway? KRICK-WHORE-EE-NAZI… KRICK-DICK…KRIK-SHIT-WHORE-DONG… oh it’s too hard and unnatural, WAH, WAH, look at us crying now like babies, WAH WAH WAH, oh someone console us, pwease, WAH.

Let’s just call them both Hamburger SUV and get on with it.

It Sticks in My Craw

http://wonkette.com/408785/national-review-we-pronounce-sotomayor-however-we-want

[BlooInBloo]

1. (shrug) I would expect nothing more from such people.

[jefferson_dem]

3. As I read your response...

another NRO neocon - some pasty white putz - says the Senate has an obligation to the Hispanic community to go hard on Sotomayor...on FauxNews. Such a hoot. Carry on, conservative dipshits...

[GodlessBiker]

2. And their little party keeps shrinking and shrinking and shrinking.

[Berry Cool]

4. The asininity...it hurts, don't it? n/t

[Enrique]

5. and what's up with quesadillas?

I'm going to start saying it kweezadillas, because that's more natural to me.

[NoPasaran]

18. Real Americans pronounce the Texas city of Amarillo "Yeller"

[Cha]

6. They don't know how.. they can't do it

right..so they just give up.

Typical rwshit.

[ellacott]

7. He was Keith's Worst Person in the World tonight n/t

[bunkerbuster1]

8. So hard to find today's Biggest Dipshit...

but this Mark Krikorian guy surely is a contenduh.

[onenote]

9. and does dear mr Krikorian pronounce it "al-it-o" or aleeeto

durn Eyetalians messing up englush...

and what about Rudy Gee-oo-lye-aye-no -- that's the Amurican way to pronounce it, not some european crap.

[Colobo]

10. So-to-ma-YOR. It is not that difficult.

[BlooInBloo]

11. Has nothing to do with their abliity to pronounce it. They just WANT to be assholes.

[Colobo]

12. They certainly succeed.

[GodlessBiker]

20. I bet they would pronounce it correctly if they were appearing in front of her. Hypocrites.

[opihimoimoi]

13. The FogHorn GOP Attention Addicts making moot noise just to send signals they are still kicking

Cannot afford to look Dead in the Water and disgusted at that...this all an act...to show strength, to say Nasty Bravado shit...

locker room trash talk after a terrible thrashing....losing the Presidence, the Senate, and the House over these past 2 1/2 years must be devastating to their psyche...almost depression time...

Its all over...Pubs are reduced to calling names, making false Labels, etc..it toast time....

[DrToast]

14. What the hell kind of name is Krikorian?

;)

[asphalt.jungle]

15. English of course, more specifically a little village in England called Armenia

this guy is such a tool, no self-awareness whatsoever.

[vaberella]

17. Hahahahaha....n/t

[4lbs]

16. You know, the names "Boehner" and "Ensign" are too difficult for me to pronounce properly.

I'll pronounce them as I read them in my own tongue, because that "white-speak" naming convention is just too darned hard.

So "Boehner" is not BAY-NOR, but BO-NER, because after all, "Boe" and "Doe" are pronounced the same to me.

"Ensign" is not EN-SIN, but EN-SINE, after all it's just EN and SIGN smashed together.

Oh, "Shelby" is not SHELL-BEE, but SHE'LL-BYE as I pronounce it.

That name "Krikorian"? It shouldn't be pronounced CRICK-OR-E-UHN, but CRY-KOREAN. Simplest that way.

;)

[Fleshdancer]

19. These people remind me of every "before" video on infomercials

You know the videos...the grainy black and white footage of people pretending to be too stupid to do the most simple tasks like cutting anything with a knife or performing a single abdominal crunch without throwing their back out.

We should make a parody infomercial of people too white and too stupid to pronounce various surnames that aren't "Smith".

[11 Bravo]

21. Has anyone told John Boehner?

[DinahMoeHum]

22. ESHEK = the American Armenian way to say "asshole"

Mark Krikorian gets my vote this week for DU's "Top 10 Conservative Idiots".

I wonder if he has ever met Howard Kaloogian. Sheesh, what a pair of tools.

:evilfrown:

[dancingme]

23. why did Dick Cheney always say "Chee-Nee"