Hee hee. President's bill retains the Boehner tax

[laughingliberal]

The President's revenue sources in the bill list the tax on tanning salon services among them. No wonder Boehner is pissed.

[upi402]

1. When 2 vowels go walking...

the 1st one does tha talking. Boner, not Bayner.

[Monk06]

4. Behner = Bayner ..... Boehner = Boner ..... That's the proper German pronunciation.

[damonm]

5. Beg to differ...

In English, you're right.
German or Dutch, not necessarily.
Had a good friend in HS whose last name was "Poetker" - pronounced "PET-kur".

[RainDog]

6. boek in dutch is pronounced "bouk"

don't remember if there's a change in vowel sounds with an h following, but by that logic Boehner would be "Bouwner"

[dysfunctional press]

15. really? how do you pronounce the word "neighbor"...?

:shrug:

[upi402]

17. "asshat" - if he's acting like a Republican ! n/t

[Igel]

18. In core English orthography, sure.

Otherwise, you really have a problem with "skies" in "Mostly blue skies are found during the summer, and that's good for picnics" versus "Mostly Blue skies during the winter--he likes cross-country, not alpine."

Yeah, yeah, secondary and non-productive rules and all that.

I know I've always pronounced "orange" to rhyme with "range" and "trance". And "deal" certainly rhymes with "Neandertal." (And let's not forget that "certain" rhymes with "pertain" and "Saint-Saens".)

Then there are names like "Haendel" and "Goethe". And I've known more than one "Guenther" who pronounced their names "Ginter". Plattdeutsch after a long sojourn near the Volga, don't you know?

My favorite examples are how we borrow names from Dutch, though. There's a street in Houston pronounced more or less as "Kerkendall", but spelled "Kuykendal". They try to mimic the front high rounded vowel and it comes out rhotic. Better Houstonians' attempt than Philly's pathetic attempt to pronounce "Schuylkill", to be sure. I guess we'll all agree that means Houstonians are more culturally sensitive and internationally enlightened than those rube Philadelphians.

Not unrelated are how Russian and, say, Czech borrow front rounded vowels. French "bureau" comes out as "byuro" in Russian but "biro" in Czech. Czech continued spelling "revue" a la francaise, but Czechs pronounce it "revy", to rhyme with "Chevy". We're in the Russian camp sometimes: Not only do we pronounce "revue" with a final u, but we even put in the glide that use to be de rigueur before "long u". The closest most Americans come to getting "Goethe" right is by making it rhyme with "Berta" (and many just make it "Go-tuh").

Still, people get to say how they'll say their names. Dziewiecki, a kid I knew it high school, had something as close to an "authentic" Polish pronunciation as you can get with American English sounds: Jevyetski. Another kid, Zywicki, pronounced it "zy-wick-key", not "Jiveetski". My physics teacher in college, Yevic, went with the spelling, not with how his great-grand-father would have pronounced it: He said "Yevick" and not "Yevich". I'm not about to tell the Plattdeutsch speaking Ginter-Gunthers that they're mispronouncing their names because they're not following the rules for people who speak a markedly different dialect. Or that the Liu I knew in grad school was wrong in saying her father's name as "Lee" (after all, it's the same problem as in "Boehner"--how to treat a rounded front vowel in one language when you borrow the name into English).

[NYC_SKP]

2. I'll let you tax my Boehner when you pry it from my cold, dead hands...

or something like that.

[NanceGreggs]

3. ...

... :rofl:

[KittyWampus]

13. -golf clap-

[xchrom]

7. Boner!!! Nt

[PHIMG]

8. That's about the only thing that is good about this bill.

[rug]

9. Tax the pricks.

[aquart]

10. Not that I object, but how do you tax a penis? So much per inch?

I can see an amazing, government-verified revenue stream.

[rug]

12. Use a progressive tax. Once it's in place no one will ask for a cut.

[HillbillyBob]

14. The IRS should be able to tell while they have hands in your pockets

I don't have anything else to say about it in public..

I know I use some strong language..but even I have limits.

[laughingliberal]

16. Priceless!

:rofl:

[Skittles]

11. oh yes, this whole circus is a real hoot

hardy har har