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Mispronunciation is racist

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  • CopperC Offline
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    Copper
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    #2

    What a bigot

    Those racists are bad

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    • HoraceH Offline
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      Horace
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      Biden is deeply troubling.

      Education is extremely important.

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        xenon
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        #4

        lololol.

        Under that standard, almost every non-brown person I've met in my life has been racist. Who knew..

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        • X xenon

          lololol.

          Under that standard, almost every non-brown person I've met in my life has been racist. Who knew..

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          George K
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          @xenon said in Mispronunciation is racist:

          lololol.

          Under that standard, almost every non-brown person I've met in my life has been racist. Who knew..

          That's sort of the point, isn't it? Everything is racist when viewed through the prism of CNN's commentatariat.

          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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            #6

            Mispronunciation per se is not necessarily racist.
            Deliberate mispronunciation may be, depending on the circumstances.
            Short of having some sort of speech impediment or simply being incapable of proper pronunciation, deliberate mispronunciation, even after one has been corrected as Mr. Carlson has been, is just plain douchey.

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            • HoraceH Offline
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              Horace
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              #7

              Biden has certainly been corrected before. However, we can probably attribute his persistent failing not to doucheyness but to mental infirmity.

              Education is extremely important.

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              • AxtremusA Axtremus

                Mispronunciation per se is not necessarily racist.
                Deliberate mispronunciation may be, depending on the circumstances.
                Short of having some sort of speech impediment or simply being incapable of proper pronunciation, deliberate mispronunciation, even after one has been corrected as Mr. Carlson has been, is just plain douchey.

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                George K
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                @Axtremus said in Mispronunciation is racist:

                doucehey

                "Douce Hey?"

                Wouldn't "Hey, Douce" be more appropriate?

                If there are two of them ("douce") which one are you addressing?

                Are typos racist? Particularly if they haven't been proofread?

                "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                  Aqua Letifer
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                  One of the things I like about my job is that text edits provide me with a socially acceptable way to be a dick. It's pretty much unavoidable, actually. And if you're called out or questioned about the edits, then you get to make the other person sound stupid, too. It's pretty great.

                  Please love yourself.

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                    @Axtremus said in Mispronunciation is racist:

                    doucehey

                    "Douce Hey?"

                    Wouldn't "Hey, Douce" be more appropriate?

                    If there are two of them ("douce") which one are you addressing?

                    Are typos racist? Particularly if they haven't been proofread?

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                    Axtremus
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                    @George-K said in Mispronunciation is racist:

                    @Axtremus said in Mispronunciation is racist:

                    doucehey

                    "Douce Hey?"

                    Wouldn't "Hey, Douce" be more appropriate?

                    If there are two of them ("douce") which one are you addressing?

                    Are typos racist? Particularly if they haven't been proofread?

                    Thank you for bringing that to my attention.
                    I have since corrected the typo.

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                      xenon
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                      #11

                      It's doubly interesting because in India you'd get very different pronunciations of Kamala depending on if you're in North or South India.

                      Like the word Karma - in old sanskrit you pronounce the "a" at the end, but in North India (that includes big cities like Dehli and Bombay), they pronounce the work "Karm". Stopping on the m. (As in "karm is a bitch" is how you would say it, if that phrase was in a Bollywood movie)

                      In my family extended family I have a "Kamala", spelled "Kamal" pronounced nothing like the correctors on the CNN segments.

                      Also here's super-racist Modi butchering President Doland Trump's name:

                      Link to video

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                      • George KG Offline
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                        George K
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                        "Doland."

                        It could happen, LOL.

                        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                        • George KG George K

                          @Axtremus said in Mispronunciation is racist:

                          doucehey

                          "Douce Hey?"

                          Wouldn't "Hey, Douce" be more appropriate?

                          If there are two of them ("douce") which one are you addressing?

                          Are typos racist? Particularly if they haven't been proofread?

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                          Larry
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                          @George-K said in Mispronunciation is racist:

                          @Axtremus said in Mispronunciation is racist:

                          doucehey

                          "Douce Hey?"

                          Wouldn't "Hey, Douce" be more appropriate?

                          If there are two of them ("douce") which one are you addressing?

                          Are typos racist? Particularly if they haven't been proofread?

                          I think in this case the proper spelling would be douche. As in bag.

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                            89th
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                            @George-K that video was great....love the twist at the end of Biden butchering Kamala's name even worse. LOVE IT

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                              Copper
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                              I feel bad for all those cnn people, they were so obviously hurt by the mispronunciation.

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                                89th
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                                Can you imagine going around life being so easily offended?

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                                • HoraceH Offline
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                                  Horace
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                                  They're not that easily offended though. They're just eager for the opportunity to catch an enemy in the act of being offensive, so they can set the shaming machinery against them.

                                  Education is extremely important.

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                                    89th
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                                    Link to video

                                    Not the first time I’ve posted this, and won’t be the last. 😂

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                                      Mik
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                                      Idiocracy.

                                      “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                                        Mik
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                                        89th's video is brilliant. Love it.

                                        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                                          89th
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                                          I think about the line “you’re offended...so what, nothing happens!” ALL the time.

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