Comments on: And pledge week just ended?

By: alex

alex — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 20:25:23 +0000

Well, if you couldn’t pony up the pennies for the latest fund drive like a good many of us underemployed professionals, take heart in this: http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-kroc07.html

They won’t be hurting too badly.

By: ashley

ashley — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 18:12:30 +0000

Kind of reminds me of Les Nessman’s pronunciation of “Chi Chi Rodriguez”.

So, are they also going to write in and complain about the accent of the “Car Talk” guys?

At least they aren’t as politically correct as a certain large Catholic University in the largest city in Illinois, which has shed the term “ombudsman” for “ombudsperson”. Feh.

By: John Ritter

John Ritter — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 15:24:18 +0000

This is what most of Americans think of NPR, a bunch of pretentious, (please forgive me for using this expression) panty wearing, hand wringing, (again, pardon the expression) ivy towered acedemians who look down on not only Joe Sixpack and Susie Nascar, but also the great unwashed middle class.

By: Nance

Nance — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 15:10:38 +0000

As Paul points out, though, since when is saying “ecawnomy” a mispronounciation?

I also love that hairsplitting between “interpreter” and “translator” — “Somehow the phrase used by the reporter implied that Mr. Chirac lacked the ability to be understood and that an interpreter was his need, not ours.” Oh, kill me now.

By: Colleen

Colleen — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 13:11:56 +0000

Welcome to my world, that of public radio nitpickers. My coworkers and I are convinced that there’s a whole subset of listeners who just sit there by the phone, waiting for us to mispronounce something, so they can get on the horn and tell us how smart they are.

Feh.

By: howard

howard — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 10:55:54 +0000

Dvorkin should devote much more space to entertaining us with columns like this one and forget about catering to the conservative critics of “liberal bias” who will never, ever be convinced that NRR is as “fair and balanced”� as their beloved FOXNews.

By the way, my favorite public radio pronunciations from Nicaragua came from the BBC reporter who frequently filed his reports from maw-NAW-gwa, nick-are-AG-ewe-ah

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 07:51:20 +0000

I don’t care to follow through to the link–I am too hep for that; I leave link-reading to the little people–because I know that you are making that up. “Some say ‘Bawb’ for ‘Bob,’” indeed.

By: alex

alex — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 04:07:34 +0000

Sounds like Dvorkin’s willing to indulge every last nitpicking nut case�regardless of their political stripe. Wait ’til somebody says Terry Gross should try to adapt more of an announcer voice�”you know, like Ted Baxter on the ‘Mary Tyler Moore Show,’” and she gets a testy memo telling her to shape up or ship out. I can see how this’ll all make for some entertaining ‘blog fodder in the days to come.

Much better, though, if loyal NPR listeners would start writing en masse about this irritating anal polyp of an ombudsman who oughtta get cut from the payroll. Like now.