Dear BBC

29 Jan 2009 07:50 pm
karohemd: by LJ user gothindulgence (Bad Taste)
[personal profile] karohemd
If you're somewhere foreign, please ask a local how the name of the place is pronounced. Seriously, you make yourself look stupid.
No wonder Dalek jokes are popping up all over the place.

Date: 1/2/09 08:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mr-malk.livejournal.com
I still can't get over the fact that that Powell bloke thinks that Colin rhymes with Conan.

Date: 1/2/09 08:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
*scratches head*
Oh, is this what sparked this Onion article (http://www.theonion.com/content/news/obama_disappointed_cabinet_failed)?

Date: 1/2/09 09:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mr-malk.livejournal.com
No, that's about Marvel honouring the revelation that Obama is a lifelong comics buff by giving him his own mini-series.

No, it's just that I always found it grating the way that former US Secretary of State Colin Powell always pronounces his name "Colen". Apparently his Mum still calls him Colin, and the pretentious pronunciation was a sort of nickname between him and some of his friends at first. Still, given the way I spell my name, I'm probably a bad one to be complaining about it!

Date: 2/2/09 10:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] undyingking.livejournal.com
You might too if your middle name was "theDestroyer".

Date: 2/2/09 12:45 pm (UTC)

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