They’re Getting Crazier By The Second

Wingnut Mark Krikorian for example:

Deferring to people’s own pronunciation of their names should obviously be our first inclination, but there ought to be limits. Putting the emphasis on the final syllable of Sotomayor is unnatural in English (which is why the president stopped doing it after the first time at his press conference), unlike my correspondent’s simple preference for a monophthong over a diphthong, and insisting on an unnatural pronunciation is something we shouldn’t be giving in to.

As a guy with a frequently mispronounced last name, Mr. Kockdorkyman can suck it. Yeah, that’s how I choose to write his last name. Writing it correctly is something I shouldn’t be giving in to.

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  • http://www.multimediaaffair.blogspot.com Mr E

    goddamn, people who are racist even a bit just piss me off….

  • http://www.multimediaaffair.blogspot.com Mr E

    goddamn, people who are racist even a bit just piss me off….

  • http://heatherbrion.wordpress.com Heather!

    So in Mr. Krikorian’s opinion we should pronounce tortilla: “tor-till-a” not how it is unnaturally pronounced: “tor-ˈtē-yə\”??Did I miss some memo about Blatant Racism Wednesday?

  • http://heatherbrion.wordpress.com Heather!

    So in Mr. Krikorian’s opinion we should pronounce tortilla: “tor-till-a” not how it is unnaturally pronounced: “tor-ˈtē-yə\”??Did I miss some memo about Blatant Racism Wednesday?

  • http://politicalpartypooper.wordpress.com/ ɹədoodʎʇɹɐdlɐɔıʇılod

    I don’t care how you pronounce my name, but you’d better pronounce “thong”‘ right!

  • http://politicalpartypooper.wordpress.com/ ɹədoodʎʇɹɐdlɐɔıʇılod

    I don’t care how you pronounce my name, but you’d better pronounce “thong”‘ right!

  • eric

    Let’s see, wasn’t it an all white Supreme Court that decided that Black people were chattel and 3/4 of a human being, and that Jim Crow was fair, and that women didn’t need voting privileges until the women’s suffrage movement?

  • eric

    Let’s see, wasn’t it an all white Supreme Court that decided that Black people were chattel and 3/4 of a human being, and that Jim Crow was fair, and that women didn’t need voting privileges until the women’s suffrage movement?

  • http://politicalpartypooper.wordpress.com/ ɹədoodʎʇɹɐdlɐɔıʇılod

    Oh, am I supposed to call myself ɹədoodʎʇɹɐdlɐɔıʇıloduɯɐppoƃ?

  • http://politicalpartypooper.wordpress.com/ ɹədoodʎʇɹɐdlɐɔıʇılod

    Oh, am I supposed to call myself ɹədoodʎʇɹɐdlɐɔıʇıloduɯɐppoƃ?

  • http://politicalpartypooper.wordpress.com/ ɹədoodʎʇɹɐdlɐɔıʇılod

    That quote has me flashed back all the way to 1991, when repeatedly, we heard Bush 1 say “sad-ham Hussein”, and look how that turned out. I also remember when harass was pronounced her-ass.Were we right?

  • http://politicalpartypooper.wordpress.com/ ɹədoodʎʇɹɐdlɐɔıʇılod

    That quote has me flashed back all the way to 1991, when repeatedly, we heard Bush 1 say “sad-ham Hussein”, and look how that turned out. I also remember when harass was pronounced her-ass.Were we right?

  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    Translation: she’s got a funny foreign name that’s not easy to pronounce! She’s one of them funny-named brown people we’re supposed to fear and devalue!Of course, that’s pretty much what he was saying about Obama a year or so ago, wasn’t it?

  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    Translation: she’s got a funny foreign name that’s not easy to pronounce! She’s one of them funny-named brown people we’re supposed to fear and devalue!Of course, that’s pretty much what he was saying about Obama a year or so ago, wasn’t it?

  • Sierradrinker

    This guy really needs to watch his ass. Brett Favre is going to be PIIIIIIISSSSSSSSED!

  • Ady

    They’re not “getting crazier,” they’re just finding it very difficult to hide how crazy they’ve always been.Also, they prefer thongs?

  • brutlygoddamnhonest

    So it’s boner now?

  • http://www.thenewwearsoff.com/ goddamnkyle

    Speaking of names, since the Rev. Dr. Browneye insists on having his name upside down, I’m flipping mine back over so no one will think we’ve formed some sort of coalition.Also, SotomayOR. And goddamn.

  • mattpddm03

    I never heard many people not pronounce ricardo montelban (sp?) incorrectly? It’s not that hard.

  • http://www.tarackian.devianart.com J M Goddamn Ashby

    lmao @ Mr.Kockdorkyman

  • J

    @Sierra: Awesome.@Kri-crack-ian: Um, saying Sotamayor properly is not difficult. Or unnatural. It’s just the way it’s pronounced. And if we’re going to get all uppity about English pronunciations, I assume you are a supporter of things like “laBORatory” and “Sssshhhhedule”?

  • Allison

    I think it is very disrespectful and lazy not to learn someone’s name -assholes

  • Curly Lasagna

    If you didn’t pronounce Ricardo Montalbán’s name properly, you can be sure Khan’s wrath would tan your ass like Corinthian leather……….

  • Ruthie

    Bob, I would pronounce your last name cheshka. How do you pronounce it?

  • eve

    Kockdorkyman — you frame this stuff so perfectly — I am also lmaoI wonder how Kockdorkyman pronounces Alberto Gonzales.

  • http://zirgar.blogspot.com ZIRGAR

    As a person whose last name is very simply spelled but apparently difficult to pronounce I say to Mr. Kervorkian, uh, Kierkegaard, er, what the fuck ever, “Kiss my ass, you dick”! One should always try to pronounce a person’s name the way they say it should be pronounced. It’s just courtesy and proper etiquette, you fucknut asshat!

  • http://arkytek.blogspot.com/ ∇•B=0  Goddamn Silly Ratfaced Git  ∇•D=ρ

    @Mark KrikorianPut down the crack pipe dude. That shit is making it impossible for you to cover up the fact that you are an arrogant, hateful, racist prick.I’ll bet you are really good at the goose-step you fascist twatwaffle.

  • http://www.southofstrange.com Proud Kool-Aid Drinker™

    Lesson #1 in (real) in journalism school: “spell names correctly.”Lesson #1 in Radio/TV/Film school: “pronounce names correctly.”But Mr. Kookynutpucker must have attended some sort of fake school. Liberty University, perhaps?

  • http://snarla.wordpress.com Snarla

    It can’t take more than two hours of Spanish instruction to learn how to pronounce Sotomayor. Any US citizen who has never had two hours of Spanish lessons ought to be too ashamed to speak in public anywhere.

  • ßißiɱiɱi

    They’ve got NOTHING and they KNOW IT!A truly masterful choice. Historically, they will show as just rolling over, ultimately. They can whine like the bloated pink dinosaurs they are, but this cat’s in the sack and about to get her teeth cleaned.

  • ßißiɱiɱi

    “Mr. Kockdorkyman”–Phys. Ed.?

  • BlueFan

    What a rude, arrogant, lazy, ignorant fuckwad.Just when I think these idiots can’t get any fucking crazier…….

  • http://www.bobcesca.com Bob Cesca

    >>>Bob, I would pronounce your last name cheshka. How do you pronounce it?The proper Italian pronunciation is CHESS-kuh. However, my immediate family has always used “SESS-kuh” for some reason.

  • http://www.bobcesca.com Bob Cesca

    Adding… For what it’s worth, my actual first name is Roberto.I’m very exotic and I can’t close the deal.

  • http://homepage.mac.com/wildlifeweb/bird/flamingo/honolulu/flamingo01.jpg veralynn

    that is why we come here Bob…your exoticness :)

  • http://zirgar.blogspot.com ZIRGAR

    Olbermann just named Krikorian “Worst Person In The World” for this little xenophobic insight of his. lol

  • Ady

    Now if you would just give us your middle name, social security number, and your mother’s maiden name, we’ll believe everything you say, right after we return from our awesome vacation in Europe.

  • Ady

    Now if you would just give us your middle name, social security number, and your mother’s maiden name, we’ll believe everything you say, right after we return from our awesome vacation in Europe.

  • gocart mozart

    H/T to Sadly No!, I believe the correct pronunciation of Krikorian is Crack-Whore-ian

  • gocart mozart

    H/T to Sadly No!, I believe the correct pronunciation of Krikorian is Crack-Whore-ian

  • jmrunning3

    “I’m very exotic and I can’t close the deal.”LMAOI can’t remember the details, but last year wasn’t there a Texas legislator that complained about a Korean or Chinese constituent’s name? He was actually on the job and in-session when he complained that this poerson should get an “American” name since he couldn’t be bothered to learn Chinese or Korean.Can someone confirm this? I’ll keep looking…

  • jmrunning3

    “I’m very exotic and I can’t close the deal.”LMAOI can’t remember the details, but last year wasn’t there a Texas legislator that complained about a Korean or Chinese constituent’s name? He was actually on the job and in-session when he complained that this poerson should get an “American” name since he couldn’t be bothered to learn Chinese or Korean.Can someone confirm this? I’ll keep looking…

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  • http://obamaproject.windonwater.net QueenTiye

    It’s such a good thing that I didn’r see that the hotness that is Bob is actually “Roberto Cesca” (pronounced “CHESS-kuh”), prior to accidentally calling in to the radio show. I would have probably turned into a puddle of goo.QT

  • http://obamaproject.windonwater.net QueenTiye

    It’s such a good thing that I didn’r see that the hotness that is Bob is actually “Roberto Cesca” (pronounced “CHESS-kuh”), prior to accidentally calling in to the radio show. I would have probably turned into a puddle of goo.QT

  • http://obamaproject.windonwater.net QueenTiye

    It’s such a good thing that I didn’t see that the hotness that is Bob is actually “Roberto Cesca” (pronounced “CHESS-kuh”), prior to accidentally calling in to the radio show. I would have probably turned into a puddle of goo.QT

  • http://obamaproject.windonwater.net QueenTiye

    It’s such a good thing that I didn’t see that the hotness that is Bob is actually “Roberto Cesca” (pronounced “CHESS-kuh”), prior to accidentally calling in to the radio show. I would have probably turned into a puddle of goo.QT

  • Texican

    I don’t see the difficulty in saying Sotomayor correctly. But then, I’ve never had a problem with putting the emPHAsis on the correct sylLAble.

  • Texican

    I don’t see the difficulty in saying Sotomayor correctly. But then, I’ve never had a problem with putting the emPHAsis on the correct sylLAble.

  • http://politicalpartypooper.wordpress.com/ ɹədoodʎʇɹɐdlɐɔıʇılod

    Bob,

    Adding… For what it’s worth, my actual first name is Roberto.I’m very exotic and I can’t close the deal.

    Now I’m picturing SNL’s Vinny Vedecci.

  • http://politicalpartypooper.wordpress.com/ ɹədoodʎʇɹɐdlɐɔıʇılod

    Bob,

    Adding… For what it’s worth, my actual first name is Roberto.I’m very exotic and I can’t close the deal.

    Now I’m picturing SNL’s Vinny Vedecci.

  • http://wallenfeldt.com/blog Wally

    My wife decided calling him Krackerman kind of hits the nail on the head. And yes, she’s Anglo with a solid sense of humor.

  • http://wallenfeldt.com/blog Wally

    My wife decided calling him Krackerman kind of hits the nail on the head. And yes, she’s Anglo with a solid sense of humor.