Semper Fifi
Posted on 01/19/2014 9:27:39 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Call it Melissa Harris-Perry's "corpse-man" moment . . .
In a segment on the role of the US military during her MSNBC show this morning, Harris-Perry, quoting the Marine Corps motto, pronounced it Semper "Fee." Marines of course pronounce it "fye." Perry surely meant no disrespect. But it is a mark of how detached she and so much of the liberal media is from military culture that she could make such a mistake.
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She looks like a “rouge” agent!
Translated "Always Tax"?
Yep, sounds like a liberal Socialist redistributionist, all right.
That’s correct.
Could you imagine how she would have attacked Palin if she had mispronounced the word? She would try to use it as proof that Palin is not intelligent and it would end up on SNL and sitcoms for years.
Perhaps she thinks it’s short for fee-fi-fo-fum.
What a maroon...
Yeah?
Well, you don’t know Scotch about Cold Fusion. / S
mispronouncing Semper Fi as “Semper fee” or stating “this we’ll defend” is the army motto just shows off the host’s laziness. I can practically guarantee a google search was involved and no staffers on the show served in the military or came from military families.
As an aside, I wonder how many active duty Soldiers could tell you “this we’ll defend” is the Army motto, or that the big A army even has a motto. You know your unit’s motto, and maybe “this we’ll defend” is on the Drill Sergeant badge, but like the second verse of the Army song, it’s nothing more than trivia to the average soldier, maybe learned once in a smart book, maybe spouted off at a ceremony, maybe studied once for a promo board, but not likely well known.
Oh my god, it’s hideous. What is it?
Or Brittish “lef-tenant.”
Semper Fee -Fi-Fo-Fum
Someone should meet HER in ‘that coffee shop’, with ‘that hunter bottle’!
She went to Dook? That explains it.
As several have already remarked, she is correct with her Latin pronunciation, if she had said “Semper fidelis.” But if she’s going to use the short form, than she should pronounce it the way Marines traditionally do.
Either Semper fidelis or Semper Fi.
She is smart judging from her ability to have a number of different concepts going on...her use of that ability is severely curtailed by a lack of critical thinking, and a dearth of variety of thought exposure.
Saying Semper “Fee” means she is willing to give lip service to the military, but would never invest the time to see multiple movies where the phrase is used correctly. If she had, she would have gotten it right.
I knew it was Semper Fidelis and used as Semper Fi, but never served in the military. It is not that difficult. But she has never invested the time to really mean she respects the military, it is just words. BTW I went to a memorial for my last uncle a week ago. He piloted a landing craft at Iwo Jima in WW2. He was 17 taking many marines to their death and bringing as many dead and wounded back to the ship. He was navy but he watched the motto in real life.
Semper Fi Judson!
DK
fee fie fo she’s dumb
Semper Fifi
i concur...
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