I know this is petty, but it drives me up a wall...

[rateyes]

especially when we are talking about Ahmadinejad. But, it seems almost every reporter/newscaster/politician hasn't bothered to learn how to pronounce his name correctly.

It is not (caps used for syllabes stressed) AhmaDINejad.

Rather, it is, AhMAdi-neJAD.

I was always taught that persons who speak in public have a duty to know this kind of stuff.

Oh, well. Again, it's petty. Just wanted to vent some more at the media.

On edit: and the "i" sounds like a long "e."

[Rick Myers]

1. Remember Poppy during Gulf One?

He regularly mispronounced Saddam's name, making it sould like arabic for 'goat.'

[rateyes]

4. Yeah, but that was one guy...

most everyone else didn't do it. I think that reporters and jsut about everyone else in the media are lazy. That's why we don't get any real investigative reporting anymore. Even the good ones (like KO) just talk about the "big stories" and don't seem to delve deeper into the situation.

For example: "Things are better in Anbar province" becomes "the surge is working." Truth: The surge has nothing to do with Anbar province...and, when al-Qaeda is completely driven out by the Sunni tribes, those tribes will, again, turn on the US.

[DaveJ]

2. Would you take their job?

I ask because I would love to have a job programming computer applications, I trained for it for years, but can't find a job doing that, and I have similar type of reaction when I see poorly written software. I wonder why these people were able to get hired and not me. It's one of my pet peeves, a really frustrating feeling.

And I agree with the overall fact that people who speak in public should know these things.

[rateyes]

5. Yes, I would.

I make my living speaking publicly. It's part of the craft to speak correctly.

Like you say, I don't understand how people get their jobs, either. I see misspelled words, and terrible grammar on the "crawls" scrolling across the bottom of the screen on the so-called news channels.

That ought not to be. It makes me wonder about the state of education.

[DaveJ]

7. I'm glad I'm not alone then...

I guessed right. So proud of myself. Anyway, I'm hoping public speaking abilities will become more important once we get Bubbu out of the picture.

[angrycarpenter]

3. rememeber when bush sr.

called Saddam "sodom"? Same thing. The first step in demonizing someone is using an insulting name for them.

[Der Blaue Engel]

8. Hillary's been doing that lately, I noticed

Disclaimer: I am not a Hillary Hater. Just something I noticed and thought was unfortunate.

[question everything]

6. Interesting.

I think that at first his name was just too much of a mouthful just looking at it.

And then, of course, you have many who still say Airak (like Ireland or Iceland) instead of Eerak, like Israel or Italy. Come to think of this, many say Aitaly, too..)

And I often wonder who the former Soviet Georgia should be pronounced. I doubt it is like "our" Georgia.