Re: Pedant News

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Roses are red, violets are blue

Padilla

Can't stop getting shat upon-illa

Now you know.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 4:50 PM
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May be a bad thing. Balkin's counting votes, and he might have counted wrong.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 4:55 PM
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Do we know the lawyer knows how to pronounce her client's name properly?


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:16 PM
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Oh come on.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:17 PM
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I'm just sayin'. There's probably been all sorts of security, she hasn't spent that much time talking to him -- I can see someone to whom the rhymes-with-tortilla pronunciation doesn't come naturally screwing it up because she hasn't heard it said that often.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:20 PM
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well, there's Godzilla. That isn't pronounced like tortilla.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:22 PM
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do you think Godzilla's lawyer got it wrong?


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:23 PM
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How should Mozilla be pronounced?


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:24 PM
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I'm saying God-ZEE-uh from now on.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:24 PM
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Dead!


Posted by: bill gates | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:25 PM
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Don't you think, given that she agreed to let a reporter record her pronouncing her client's name, that she's pretty confident she's got it right?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:25 PM
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How can we be sure that Padilla is pronouncing his name correctly? Or that this surprising pronunciation isn't an Al Qaeda trick, or a code word?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:27 PM
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maybe they think he's more sympathetic with a mispronounced surname.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:28 PM
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12 makes a good point. Maybe it's like that Craig fellow who pronounces his name "Crayg".


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:28 PM
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I hadn't actually clicked on the link -- given that she seems to have been answering the question "How do you pronounce your client's name?", I'm wrong. I thought that the link was going to be a clip of her using his name in a discussion of the case, without the pronunciation having been addressed.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:29 PM
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How could it possibly be "puh-DILL-uh"? This just strikes me as wrong.


Posted by: silvana | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:29 PM
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Maybe they're alleging a meeting in the Philippines: Padilla in Manila.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:31 PM
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Some people do pronounce their own names wrong, I guess. My brother, for one.


Posted by: silvana | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:32 PM
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maybe he wants to sound more vanilla.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:33 PM
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General preemptive announcement: Don't start one, won't be none.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:34 PM
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it's a way to actually receive civil rights.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:34 PM
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I suck. That's the problem with preemption, you do it hastily and the execution is often poor, at the mineshaft.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:35 PM
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I once had a writing instructor whose last name was Najera, which she pronounced with an English j and the accent on the e. She also taught Spanish; I wonder how she pronounced it with those classes.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:46 PM
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Smith.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:46 PM
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There's seems to be something missing from this thread, but it's hard to point out what.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 6:24 PM
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cock.

There, now it's done.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 6:30 PM
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The problem with Padilla is that the P should be silent.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 6:41 PM
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How on earth else would you pronounce Craig?


Posted by: billyfrombelfast | Link to this comment | 11-23-05 11:11 AM
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This is a thing with w-lfs-n.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11-23-05 11:13 AM
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The right way, obviously.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 11-23-05 11:17 AM
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This is a midwest thing. (Isn't Padilla from Chicago?) I worked with a woman in Chicago whose last name was Gallegos, pronouced Gah-LAY-gus.

(Returning to lurker status.)


Posted by: NM Dem | Link to this comment | 11-23-05 11:20 AM
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That makes a lot of sense. Everyone knows about the "go-ee-thee" pronunciation of Goethe St., so why not pronounc the double-l in Spanish names?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11-23-05 11:37 AM
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Maybe it's pronounced "Throatwobbler Mangrove"?


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 11-23-05 12:19 PM
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That would make more sense as "Throatwarbler". In the non-rhotic RP accent, the two would sound nearly identical, and the semantic distance between "throat" and "warbler" is closer than between "throat" and "wobbler".


Posted by: pdf23ds | Link to this comment | 11-23-05 3:29 PM
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