Posted on 03/15/2012 6:20:33 AM PDT by dangus
Well ... my uncle did not marry an insect, neether ... uhhh ... nyether .... uhhh ... well, he dint .. that's all.
When did THIS happen?
Uranus was spelled (or spelt) omicron, upsilon, alpha, nu, omicron, sigma, with the accent on the ultima, and would therefore have been pronounced o-ran-OS by the Greeks.
But only a pedant would use the correct classical Greek pronunciation in English. You might as well say ‘Kaisar’ and ‘faikes’ instead of Caesar and feces.
Or the reporters who always sound like they came from south of the border when they have to pronounce Nicaragua?
How the hell did the 7th planet become "urineness?"
Because they got tired of all the jokes about your-anus.
Those aren't fish, either.
The rule is that if the inhabitants of a given place are non-White, you have to pronounce the city with the accent of those inhabitants. Even when the name is an exonym. It’s just that the minds at NPR would explode to discover that places like Argentina, Chile, etc., are predominant white.
But yes, NPR frequently makes me want to shoot something. They never seem to realize that as a class, they appear to be educated far beyond their intelligence.
Whales are fish.
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HUH?
http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/a6o404/futurama-smelloscope at 0:37.
If 80% of what are called ‘fish’ aren’t ‘pisces’, maybe its time to abandon the soppy shorthand that the definition of an ancient word is simply defined by a modern term. Fish =/= pisces. Get over it. Making that false presumption only destroys your ability to read Shakespeare, the prophet Jonah, and any other source where sea creatures are called ‘fish.’
Yes, but Etymology Man was defeated by a large bug he was unwisely summoned to conquer.
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I agree. Whales are no more "fish" than a seal or sea lion is.
She: "I don't know why you keep calling them that? That's not what they're called!"
Me: "What should I call them?"
She: "Munchen and Bayern, of course!"
Bye-bye.
Good grief, has it gotten to the point where they’re saying “Meheecoh” on NPR now? Ever since Dear Leader started with the Pahkeestahn business, the media have really let themselves go with the non-anglo pronunciations (which is a form of sticking it to The Man and therefore irresistable to leftists).
NPR needs to use the correct “Commie” for “progressive” and socialist for ‘rat.
These are the same kinds of folks who would say that peanuts aren’t nuts and that tomatoes aren’t vegetables. I expect one of them will be shot in a pub one day while arguing how much beer should be in a pint.
The Prince of Whales will be upset to hear that whales are not mammals. The confusion is understandable; however, as NPR is almost exclusively populated by dead fish.
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