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Not seeing it. A straight hit piece. So what?


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 8:45 PM
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Anyone else thinking Malkin has got to be really jealous?


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 8:46 PM
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I don't read Malkin, but doesn't she get paid for blogging already? What would the jealous be?

But that is a very weird thing to have done.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 8:50 PM
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Do you have a fear of demon possession, Ogged? They that just looking at the image of a demoniac can infect you incurably.

And us, too, now.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 8:50 PM
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God, can there be any other reaction to Malkin than pity? Okay, pity and revulsion?

And god dammit, it's not "New OrLEENS," it's "New ORlins." Why do people feel like it's not important to learn how to say the name of a major American city?


Posted by: cerebrocrat | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 9:10 PM
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5: scornful contempt normally works for me.
n'awlins has nothing on luhvuhl for name-butchering.


Posted by: matty | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 9:13 PM
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Just because those, you know, "people" in New Orleans don't know how to use proper English doesn't mean that we have to talk like them.

</fuckwit>


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 9:14 PM
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What would the jealous be?

No one asked her to be a special-wecial campaign head bwogger.


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 9:16 PM
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Would someone humor those of us on slow connections by summarizing the link?


Posted by: Witt | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 9:18 PM
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Malkin does dramatic readings of selected Pandagon posts by Marcotte.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 9:20 PM
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fuckit. I'm saying "ChiCAYgo" from now on.


Posted by: cerebrocrat | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 9:22 PM
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Nope. I take this very seriously. There is indeed a VRWC, and they all coordinate after very deep and careful analysis of the most useful way to take advantage of opportunities. This is not at all about Marcotte, and not even entirely about Edwards.

Here is Digby

I am checking out those weird grapefruit spoons, for which I may finally have a use.


Posted by: bob mcmanus | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 9:24 PM
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10: You're kidding me.

Seriously, THAT's what this is? REALLY?

Isn't that woman in her 30s? I cannot imagine my parents' reaction if I did such a thing as a child, much less as an adult.


Posted by: Witt | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 9:36 PM
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Why do people feel like it's not important to learn how to say the name of a major American city?

Also: my home state is Washington, not Warshington.


Posted by: DaveL | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 9:38 PM
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And its neighbor to the south is not O-ree-gone, for that matter.


Posted by: DaveL | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 9:39 PM
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13: I am reminded of The Daily Show's Great Moments in Punditry as Read by Children"


Posted by: Nathan Williams | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 9:42 PM
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The one that drives me crazy is ColoRAHdo. Also NeVAHda.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 9:42 PM
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Seriously, THAT's what this is? REALLY?

Yep. I watched about five seconds with the sound off before quitting.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 9:43 PM
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Warshington

I always thought the "adding r's where they don't belong" thing was a particularly strange regionalism. I knew a guy from Lorng Island who did it so bad he was difficult to understand sometimes - I had to ask him to repeat himself several times before I realized "orf" = "off."


Posted by: cerebrocrat | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 9:46 PM
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19: He told you to fuck orff and you thought he didn't like Carmina Burana?


Posted by: DaveL | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 9:49 PM
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Yes; we aren't from or-eh-gahn.


Posted by: TJ | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 9:49 PM
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NeVAHda

I used to say this, and had a hard time adjusting when I learned that it was wrong. But I still did it, because you call people what they want to be called.

Which is why it killed me during the Katrina coverage to hear all these national reporters saying New OrLEENS. It's not my JOB to pronounce Nevada right, but I still managed.


Posted by: cerebrocrat | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 9:51 PM
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Ogged, did you watch the whole thing? I tried, but I had to stop after about a minute and a half. That's some seriously painful shit.


Posted by: m. leblanc | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 9:51 PM
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I watched it all. There are outtakes at the end.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 9:56 PM
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I cannot imagine my parents' reaction if I did such a thing as a child, much less as an adult.

As it happens she has a pigtailed schoolgirl thing going in the clip, perhaps as preemption against this line of criticism.


Posted by: Gonerill | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 9:57 PM
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And god dammit, it's not "New OrLEENS," it's "New ORlins."

Hey, if it's good enough for Satchmo...


Posted by: J-Dub | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 10:02 PM
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She's no Satchmo.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 10:03 PM
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By the way, there's always this story. I blame the patriarchy.


Posted by: Gonerill | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 10:03 PM
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Nowak -- who was a mission specialist on a Discovery launch last summer -- was wearing a trench coat and wig and had a knife, BB pistol, and latex gloves in her car, reports show. They also found diapers, which Nowak said she used so she wouldn't have to stop on the 1,000-mile drive.

NASA doesn't prepare you only for space travel.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 10:09 PM
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28:I think it wise to avoid relationships with veteran astronauts. Possessed by disembodied space vampires, everyone of them.


Posted by: bob mcmanus | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 10:10 PM
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28: They also found diapers, which Nowak said she used so she wouldn't have to stop on the 1,000-mile drive.

Dude. I saw The Right Stuff. I thought astronauts were supposed to extra have their shit together. Keeping diapers in the car is not having your shit together.


Posted by: cerebrocrat | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 10:11 PM
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Wow, that story's all kinds of crazy.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 10:12 PM
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Keeping diapers in the car is not having your shit together.

Are you kidding me? That's like, Boy Scout x 10.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 10:13 PM
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One can be a few standard deviations away from normal on either end of the distribution.

They do have truckstops in Florida.


Posted by: cerebrocrat | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 10:18 PM
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30: Wasn't that the plot of a Christopher Pike novel?


Posted by: J-Dub | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 10:20 PM
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She was apparently trying to outrace a plane. The diapers are possibly the least bizarre aspect of this story.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 10:23 PM
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"The one that drives me crazy is ColoRAHdo."

How would you say it should be pronounced?


Posted by: Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 10:29 PM
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She's lucky that the kidnapping didn't work. Now, who has more right to be pissed at her - her husband, or the other astronaut with whom she had a "more-than-business-but-yet-not-romantic" relationship? I'm not sure how to apply the man code.

And word on the diapers. Do you have any idea how much time you lose by pulling off the interstate to go to the bathroom? That's dedication right there.


Posted by: Jake | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 10:34 PM
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No wonder no one responded to my pointing out the space story.


Posted by: Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 10:36 PM
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Malkin is married with two kids. Weird.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 10:41 PM
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38: That would be a case of sorts for diaper, singular, but pulling off to change your own diaper has got to be slower than a quickie piss stop every few hundred miles. Just have to keep the coffee intake down.


Posted by: DaveL | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 10:41 PM
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LOL

I love how the outtakes at the end (yes I watched the whole thing) serve the sole purpose of proving *Michelle* didn't *really* say those cuss words!


Posted by: Stroll | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 10:41 PM
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40: Come for the sweet, submissive Asian female, stay because she'll fucking cut you if you don't.


Posted by: DaveL | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 10:42 PM
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pulling off to change your own diaper has got to be slower than a quickie piss stop

I'm just speculating here, but you might be underestimating her determination.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 10:44 PM
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"Malkin is married with two kids. Weird."

I gather you've missed three billion posts on the left side of the blogosphere, over the past couple of years, of variants of accusing her husband of writing most of her stuff and using her as a front.

One argument used to support that claim always made me laugh: it's that: a) she couldn't possibly write that much material by herself; and b) she couldn't possibly write it at all those different times of day and night.

Whether there's otherwise any truth or not to it, I have no idea, and pretty much don't care; she's a flaming maroon 99% of the time, and that's all that matters.


Posted by: Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 10:45 PM
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How would you say it should be pronounced?

With [æ], i.e., "short" a.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 10:46 PM
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This mainly reminded me of what a good writer Amanda is. That's some rhythm she built into her posts...


Posted by: Ezra | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 10:50 PM
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44: But if you're going to piss on the go, just use a piss bottle. And, if you're female, one of these.


Posted by: DaveL | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 10:51 PM
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Indeed. Granted, we have namby-pamby astronauts these days compared to the true heroes of the past, but can you imagine spending 14 days in a space suit in this?

To tie it all back into low-carb dieting, they'd feed astronauts steak and eggs before flights, for the "low residue" properties.


Posted by: Jake | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 10:52 PM
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That's nothing: James T. Kirk's Enterprise had no toilet facilities at all!


Posted by: Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 10:56 PM
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35: Yes. Yes, it was. I'm now sad that I knew that...


Posted by: gea | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 11:03 PM
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I always thought the "adding r's where they don't belong" thing was a particularly strange regionalism.

The British might be surprised to learn that.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 11:33 PM
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For me, the most jarring thing about the Democratic primaries in '04 was hearing Howard Dean and John Kerry talk about "idears".


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 11:39 PM
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You could have looked it up.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 11:47 PM
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Hey Ogged, are you sock puppeting my blog?


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 11:54 PM
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That thread is still active?


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 11:55 PM
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You people who can't stomach this are weird. It's so . . . bizarre. And funny. In a "whaaa. . . ? Are you high?" kind of way.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 11:58 PM
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Nigger please.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 02- 5-07 11:58 PM
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He may soon have to rethink that bit about how no major power ever attacks Iran.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 12:00 AM
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Can't stomach what?


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 12:01 AM
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50: Enterprise had heads; you can check the blueprints. It's the Klingons who leave toilet facilities out of their battlecruisers to keep the crew meaner.


Posted by: Hamilton Lovecraft | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 12:06 AM
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58: I'm pretty sure ogged actually said 'neighbor please'. sorry about the confusion.


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 12:07 AM
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"50: Enterprise had heads; you can check the blueprints."

Not canon; doesn't count.


Posted by: Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 12:20 AM
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60: The linked Malkin thing. Sorry, I'm trying to get caught up here.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 12:24 AM
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Aaaand. . . . okay, the crazy astronaut thing is pretty crazy.

A knife, pepper spray, latex gloves and . . . a bb gun. Not thinking this is someone I'd want to be locked in a teeny capsule in outer space with.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 1:05 AM
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You have to admit that it would be hard to devise a more spectacular way of ending your military career.


Posted by: DaveL | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 2:18 AM
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Of course, the Marcotte paragraphs Malkin chose to highlight were a bit kooky to be honest. But the apparant intent of Malkin's attack isn't to portray Marcotte as kooky or looney, it's too portray her as "excessively shrill" intemperant, caring too much & then pretending not to be the raving shrill moonbat Malkin just knows that she is.


Posted by: DRR | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 2:44 AM
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66: tragically born too late. She would really have fitted in with Al Shephard, Gordo Cooper, Chuck Yeager and the rest. NASA's gone all boring now.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 4:43 AM
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n'awlins has nothing on luhvuhl for name-butchering.

what the...is that Louisville you're talking about? Also, Norfolk. It's not pronounced "foke".


Posted by: mcmc | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 6:27 AM
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Dude, it's "Loouhvuhl," not "Luhvuhl."


Posted by: Lurking Louisvillian | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 7:08 AM
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what the...is that Louisville you're talking about?

yeah. to pronounce it correctly requires swallowing your own tongue. also, norfolk sounds dirty, in a different sense that the town's actually dirty.


Posted by: matty | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 7:17 AM
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70: while the town's sign does list your way first, most people i know there don't grant it three syllables.


Posted by: matty | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 7:21 AM
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I was born in Loouhvuhl.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 7:22 AM
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But now I live in Durm.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 7:22 AM
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Hey! Michele Malkin is completely insane, but that video is funny! In a, like, "I'm completely insane and I know it, but look I have a video camera" kind of way! We should encourage right-wing fruitcakes in these kind of endeavors, Leninist-wise.


Posted by: Chris Conway | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 7:57 AM
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Holy shit. That video is awesome. Malkin looks like a coked-up contestant at a Poetry Slam.

The native pronounciation is "New Or-LE-ans." The word should be slurred just a bit, to sound like you're either drunk or hung-over.

Also it's "Orry" county; not "Whorey" county.


Posted by: Paul | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 8:03 AM
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cerebrocrat, are you going to demand that we say Missourah? Because I draw the line before that. I'm also not saying NEE-cah-DAH-gua, or Moskva, for that matter.


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 8:21 AM
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I thought she looked rather sexy and seemed to be talking reasonably good sense for a Yank. I might start reading the Michelle Malkin blog if it's all like that.


Posted by: dsquared | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 9:49 AM
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17: So how should Colorado and Nevada be pronounced? That symbol in 46 doesn't help me. What word does the 'a' sound like?


Posted by: annie | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 9:50 AM
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Racist.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 9:51 AM
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79: Apparently natives pronounce the "vad" and "rad" syllables in the states' names as rhyming with "bad."

Prior to this thread, I was completely unaware of this. I've always pronounced them as rhyming with "god," which makes Teofilo look down on me.


Posted by: zadfrack | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 9:56 AM
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I will point out, though, that as a Southerner I do know the correct pronunciations of "New Orleans," "Louisville," and "Durham."


Posted by: zadfrack | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 9:59 AM
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77: Oooh! Oooh! I just moved out of Missouri... The only people who pronounce Missouri as Missourah apparently come from the south-east corner of the state, are trying to suck up to people in said part of state, or are trying too hard to look like they know what they're doing. At least this is what Missourians tell me. I'm from Illinois.


Posted by: gea | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 10:21 AM
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gea, sounds like you fell for some Northwestern propaganda. My relatives in Randolph County---which, you'll note, is neither to the South nor particularly to the East---are adamant in pronouncing it "Miz-UR-uh". To wit: "There's no misery in Missouri."

It is a regionalism, I'll cop to that. And there are lots of "Mizoorians" out there (no idea how many of each). I suspect Kansas City is a "Mizoori" stronghold. Wikipedia is on the "mizuruh" side, seemingly because that's how the Sioux said it.


Posted by: Chris Conway | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 11:11 AM
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81: Wait a minute, aren't those Spanish-based names?


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 11:13 AM
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Yes, they mean "red" and "snowy" respectively.


Posted by: neil | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 11:18 AM
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85: As are Los Angeles and San Jose. There's not a whole hell of a lot of rhyme or reason to this stuff.


Posted by: DaveL | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 11:18 AM
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Speaking of Native American pronunciation, does anybody ever say "mill-e-wah-que" for Milwaukee, or is that just Alice Cooper?


Posted by: Chris Conway | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 11:18 AM
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85: Yes. And they've been anglicized. Or do you also say "los anhilliss" and roll your r's when you pronounce "sierra nevada"?


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 11:19 AM
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86: I hope Teo comes in here and clarifies, because I don't think "colorado" means red. "Rojo" means red. "Colorado," as far as I know, means "red colored," and I'd *guess* that "rado" is itself a misspelling of "rojo"?


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 11:25 AM
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After much thought, I've decided to resolve my dilemma about the pronunciation of "Nevada" and "Colorado" by referring to the two states as "the N-word" and "the C-word," respectively.


Posted by: zadfrack | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 11:37 AM
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"Colorado" means colorful, says the spanish-speaking lurker.


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84: Yeah, I was living in Columbia (which is in Boone county, which seems to be adjacent to Randolph county) at the time, and the people who informed me of pronunciation protocol were from the St. Louis area. I dunno. They seemed adamant. As long as people don't call Illinois Illi-noise, I'm happy.


Posted by: gea | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 11:44 AM
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It means red. Look it up. Colorido means colorful.


Posted by: neil | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 11:45 AM
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94, see 92. Which I'm going to take as definitive, both because I know that the word for red is "rojo" and because it rings a bell somewhere in my long-lost vocabulary archives.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 11:59 AM
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My favorite foreign language in America place name story:

Right next to Omaha, there's a suburb called Papillion. Which is pronounced pap-ILL-ion. Of course, when you first move there, you don't know this, so you pronounce it "pap-ee-YON." And then the locals correct you. And you say, "oh." And then they helpfully explain, by way of sympathizing with your unfamiliarity with this word you've never seen before, that it's "French for butterfly."


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 12:04 PM
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Colorado really does not mean red, except in the context of something turning red. It is usually used to indicate that someone is flushed/sunburnt/blushing. You wouldn't, for example, say that a tomato was "colorado." I think there really isn't a direct translation, but colorful really was a remarkably bad attempt on my part. And with that, I return to lurking, because apparently posting causes me to mess up even the most basic things.


Posted by: same lurker | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 12:37 PM
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Like in English, one would say that a person's face "colored," and that wouldn't mean they turned blue. I.e., it's one of those things where Spanish makes a distinction that English doesn't.

In other words, "colored" would be the right word; not your fault that English relies more on context in this one instance. Don't go 'way!


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 12:44 PM
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"Colorado: the Sunburn State."


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 12:47 PM
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North Versailles in Pittsburgh is pronounced "North Versales."


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 12:49 PM
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There's a Versales (sp "versailles") in Kentucky, too.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 12:51 PM
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What do you know, the Internet holds the key to the mystery.


Posted by: neil | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 1:07 PM
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Hardly definitive. You still run into the problem of English lacking a distinction Spanish obviously preserves. I say "she colored," you say "ella esta colorado"; someone else says "she turned red," you say "ella esta colorado." Whether you translate the word to reflect the former or the latter is fairly arbitrary.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 1:10 PM
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Oh, and here's a more detailed thread with examples from various countries.


Posted by: neil | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 1:12 PM
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Also a lurker - I always thought Colorado meant red. Here in New Mexico, some of the older Latinos call red chile "chile colorado."

Also, having just returned from one of many trips to New Orleans and in the process of moving there, I usually hear "New Orlins." My grandmother, who never lived there, is the only person I know who says "New Or-lee-ans."

I know absolutely know one from there who says "New OrLEENs" nor do I know anyone who says "N'awlins." I have, however heard "Gn'awlins," which sounds like the first syllable in "gnocci."


Posted by: bg | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 1:25 PM
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Oh, and I have a favorite foreign-place-name-in-America- story too.

There's a street in Metarie, La. (near New Orleans), called Loire. Yeah, go ahead and pronounce it like the European river. I dare, ya.

Do that and you get "You must not be from around here. It's prounounced "lorry."

There's also a street in the Quarter called Chartres, which is apparantly prounounced all kinds of bizarre ways, including "Charters."


Posted by: bg | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 1:31 PM
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On the other side of the anglicization street is Gnaw Bone, Indiana. The French settlers named it after Narbonne, but they left it to the English-speaking locals to write down the name, apparently.


Posted by: neil | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 1:37 PM
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I usually hear "New Orlins." My grandmother, who never lived there, is the only person I know who says "New Or-lee-ans."

Maybe L. could help clear this up.

I heard "New Orlins," too, when I lived there. But I also recall hearing a lot of people say "New Or-lee-ans" with a sort of subtle rolling "l". I took away the impression that this was an older, native pronunciation local to the city, that southerners tended to say "New Orlins," and that northerners were most likely to say "New Or-leens." But maybe I was mistaken. Or maybe I was just drunk at the time.


Posted by: Paul | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 2:19 PM
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"Colorado: the Sunburn State.""

Given the altitude, yes.

In typical Front Range weather, by the way, it's now been in the Fifties outside for two days, but there are still feet of snow on the ground; odd to be walking around in shirt-sleeves, tramping through the snow, but that's Colorado for you, however you pronounce it.


Posted by: Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 2:45 PM
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Ok. Chuck Taggart says:

"Here are the major standard local pronunciations of the City's name: (new OR-l@ns), (new AW-l@ns), (new OR-lee-'@ns), (new AH-lee-@ns), (nyoo AH-lee-'@ns). The fabled "N'Awlins", pronounced (NAW-l@ns), is used by some natives for amusement, and by some non-natives who think they're being hip, but actually I've come across very few locals who actually pronounce the name of the City in this way."

I feel better.


Posted by: Paul | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 2:47 PM
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"But I also recall hearing a lot of people say "New Or-lee-ans" with a sort of subtle rolling "l"."

Yes, that's right! It's almost like there's a "y" in there, like "New Or-le'yans."


Posted by: bg | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 2:51 PM
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106: I like Paris Road, one of the main streets in Chalmette, just east of New Orleans. It's pronounced "Parish." (I know, it's not a butchery-of-a-foreign-word thing, but it's close enough.)

Then again, I'm from the land of Worcester and Gloucester, so I can't really poke fun.


Posted by: J-Dub | Link to this comment | 02- 6-07 5:15 PM
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105: And my can of Goya pink beans is labeled "Frijoles Colorados". They do appear to be roughly the color of flushed or sunburned caucasian skin, kind of a deep slightly brownish rose color. So the whole red-face thing seems like it fits with my data point.


Posted by: Michael E Sullivan | Link to this comment | 02- 7-07 7:02 AM
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96:

That is just beautiful.

Mine is when I first moved to Rochester, NY. I was looking for an apartment and got directions to some place. I was told to go thus and so, and then turn onto something that sounded like "Shyleigh" avenue. I wasn't really sure, but I had a big map of the town, and I was pretty sure I could figure it all out. Well after much difficult figuring out where to turn, I finally just identified my destination on the map and then tried to trace back just what road they could have been talking about. There was a big main artery in town that would have fit the bill, but that couldn't possibly have been what he was talking about, because it was "Chili" Avenue.

Little did I know. It's pronounced CHAI-LAI. Egads, I always try to do pronunciation as the Romans do, but even after my third year there, I couldn't quite get it out without throwing up a little in my mouth.


Posted by: Michael E Sullivan | Link to this comment | 02- 7-07 7:07 AM
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Philadelphia's Passyunk Ave. (pronounced "puh-SHUNK," apparently) comes to mind. But then, Philly's too close to Jersey be trusted about much, including pronunciation.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 02- 7-07 8:08 AM
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I could spend a long time listing counter-intuitively* pronounced Scottish place names.

Culross, and Kirkcaldy, for example.

I suppose even Edinburgh [for americans] ...

* by the vague rules of standard English pronunciation.


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 02- 7-07 8:26 AM
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113: Unfortunately, a bad example: canned food tends to lose color. And all sorts of foods are described with colors that aren't really literal. Blueberries, for instance, aren't actually blue.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 7-07 8:34 AM
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Passyunk Ave. (pronounced "puh-SHUNK," apparently)

That's PAH-shunk to you, buddy.


Posted by: Witt | Link to this comment | 02- 7-07 8:53 AM
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Potayto, potahto...


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 02- 7-07 9:15 AM
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Has anyone ever actually heard someone pronounce it 'potahto'?


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 02- 7-07 9:24 AM
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120: Yes, by a Virginian living in NYC. She also put her flowers in a vahz.


Posted by: mcmc | Link to this comment | 02- 7-07 9:44 AM
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I'm from Philadelphia, and I always pronounced it PASS-EE-YUNK. I never heard it pronounced PAH-shunk, but I was from the other end of the city, and I can't say that it came up in casual conversation much.


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Posted by: mcmc | Link to this comment | 02- 7-07 9:44 AM
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Not since Katherine Hepburn or George Plimpton. That was an upperclass East Coast accent that disappeared fast and hard; I think the youngest person with that accent is probably in their sixties now.


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124: My Virginian acquaintance must be 70 by now.


Posted by: mcmc | Link to this comment | 02- 7-07 9:45 AM
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Yeah, but I say 'vahz' too. It's how the word is pronounced after all.* I still don't say 'potahto'.

* that's a prescriptivist joke ...


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 02- 7-07 9:50 AM
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The main drag here in Austin is named Guadalupe. If you just moved here, you might mispronounce it "Guadalupay" but don't worry. We'll all jump down your throat that it's actually pronounced "Guadaloop". We know best, dear.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 02- 7-07 9:59 AM
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I don't like potahto but I still prefer it to buh-day-da, which I first heard in Boston, on a call-in radio cooking show.

126: Flowers belong in a vayss. Scots are so affected--why can't you talk like regular people? Oh wait, wrong thread.


Posted by: mcmc | Link to this comment | 02- 7-07 10:19 AM
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Of course the proper pronunciation of "Goethe", the street in Chicago, is "Goeethee".


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 02- 7-07 10:23 AM
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re: 128

'Vayss' is 'fingernails on a blackboard' for me. Whereas some other US pronunciations [that differ from mine] are quite pleasant.


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 02- 7-07 10:45 AM
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You think that's weird? The name of Cesar Chavez Street, in San Francisco, is invariably pronounced "Army" by locals.


Posted by: neil | Link to this comment | 02- 7-07 12:22 PM
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Tourists often have trouble with Irish placenames, especially the ones that don't have an Anglicised version - Cobh f.k.a. Queenstown, Dun Laoghaire f.k.a. Kingstown. Quoth the immortal Myles:

Said a Sassenach back in Dun Laoghaire
"I pay homage to nationalist thaoghaire,
But wherever I drobh
I found signposts that strobh
To make touring in Ireland so draoghaire."


Posted by: Emir | Link to this comment | 02- 8-07 4:58 AM
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