Speaking of Morons
Is this real?
"Dude, Don't Be A Dumbass"
Quote:
"Mark Krikorian of the National Review had a far more important question for his readers:
'So, are we supposed to use the Spanish pronunciation, so-toe-my-OR, or the natural English pronunciation, SO-tuh-my-er, like Niedermeyer?'
"Good question Mark! What did you learn?
'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.'"
I hate to pile on to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots, which usually covers all the bases, but they missed some big ones in this post. Here goes:
Jesus fucking Christ you pea-brained mouth-breather. Let's begin near the beginning and allow me to clarify your first "point," which really was pointless: what distinguishes Spanish speakers from English speakers is that they use gendered ADJECTIVES and VERBS, not just nouns -- and anyway, dummy, we English speakers use gendered forms of nouns all the fucking time such as "he," "she," "Jim," "Nancy," "Mr. President," so, what? You obviously don't know what that means, but the word you thought you were using is ADJECTIVE or VERB. ADJECTIVE or VERB, you fucking worthless piece of shit! "Latino" is an adjective as well as a noun, just like "cowboy," as in "The Latino walked into the cowboy store."
I hope you choke to death in front of a second-grade Spanish class as your gasps for help fall on confused ears! What will you say, "Help, it cannot breathe! It needs Person Teacher to call Person Medical! Little Persons, assist it!"? Ay yi yi!
Point the second is so much more stupid. You're going to bitch at people who want their names pronounced in certain ways? Why? Haven't you ever met anyone named "Kuntz"? Guess how they want you to say the name. There's one way they don't want you to say it!
You would think, wouldn't you, that an obvious racist, Aryan-loving douchebag like Mark Krikorian would know that somebody who spells their last name "Fried" and pronounces it "freed" is a fucking German, and that in the Germanic languages when one encounters an "i" and an "e" together, in any form, in any word, well, as my German teacher used to say: "When 'i' and 'e' go walking, the second one does the talking!" So, yes, you numbnuts slob, when you say the name "Fried," you say it like "freed." It's not as funny (but then, only 5-year-olds and Republicans think that's funny), but it's ethnically and linguistically correct. Oh, and the awesome confusion Mark had about how to pronounce "Seipp"? Nevermind that, again, you just say it the way she wants it said (asshole!); the point still stands: It's "sipe." The "i" is second.
Holy fucking shit. I hate this guy. And then he tried to douche it up with some horseshit about "a monophthong over a diphthong" -- which you know he copped from the respondent without crediting it, because Mark Krikorian has shown he is the sort of person who can hardly write in English, let alone think about its structure! -- and that's where I decided to mock him and fuck with him if I ever see him in public, like, for example, in a store looking confused as he searches in vain for some clothes for his kids, only to realize that all the signs have un-gendered nouns on them, like "Boys" and "Girls."
I hate to pile on to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots, which usually covers all the bases, but they missed some big ones in this post. Here goes:
Jesus fucking Christ you pea-brained mouth-breather. Let's begin near the beginning and allow me to clarify your first "point," which really was pointless: what distinguishes Spanish speakers from English speakers is that they use gendered ADJECTIVES and VERBS, not just nouns -- and anyway, dummy, we English speakers use gendered forms of nouns all the fucking time such as "he," "she," "Jim," "Nancy," "Mr. President," so, what? You obviously don't know what that means, but the word you thought you were using is ADJECTIVE or VERB. ADJECTIVE or VERB, you fucking worthless piece of shit! "Latino" is an adjective as well as a noun, just like "cowboy," as in "The Latino walked into the cowboy store."
I hope you choke to death in front of a second-grade Spanish class as your gasps for help fall on confused ears! What will you say, "Help, it cannot breathe! It needs Person Teacher to call Person Medical! Little Persons, assist it!"? Ay yi yi!
Point the second is so much more stupid. You're going to bitch at people who want their names pronounced in certain ways? Why? Haven't you ever met anyone named "Kuntz"? Guess how they want you to say the name. There's one way they don't want you to say it!
You would think, wouldn't you, that an obvious racist, Aryan-loving douchebag like Mark Krikorian would know that somebody who spells their last name "Fried" and pronounces it "freed" is a fucking German, and that in the Germanic languages when one encounters an "i" and an "e" together, in any form, in any word, well, as my German teacher used to say: "When 'i' and 'e' go walking, the second one does the talking!" So, yes, you numbnuts slob, when you say the name "Fried," you say it like "freed." It's not as funny (but then, only 5-year-olds and Republicans think that's funny), but it's ethnically and linguistically correct. Oh, and the awesome confusion Mark had about how to pronounce "Seipp"? Nevermind that, again, you just say it the way she wants it said (asshole!); the point still stands: It's "sipe." The "i" is second.
Holy fucking shit. I hate this guy. And then he tried to douche it up with some horseshit about "a monophthong over a diphthong" -- which you know he copped from the respondent without crediting it, because Mark Krikorian has shown he is the sort of person who can hardly write in English, let alone think about its structure! -- and that's where I decided to mock him and fuck with him if I ever see him in public, like, for example, in a store looking confused as he searches in vain for some clothes for his kids, only to realize that all the signs have un-gendered nouns on them, like "Boys" and "Girls."
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