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You are here: Home / Another Pressing Issue

Another Pressing Issue

by John Cole|  November 26, 20036:55 pm| 22 Comments

This post is in: General Stupidity

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Via Drudge, I see some Democrats have seized upon another pressing issue for the 2004 elections:

Nevada memo to George Bush: When making a first presidential visit to a state, use the right pronounciation of its name.

Bush, in Las Vegas on Tuesday, repeatedly said Ne-vah-da. To properly pronounce Nevada, the middle syllable should rhyme with gamble.

Mispronouncing the state’s name “sets people’s teeth on edge,” said state Archivist Guy Rocha. “He’s the president, and he ought to get it right. Nothing personal.”

State Senate Minority Leader Dina Titus, D-Las Vegas, said the mispronunciation shows Bush, who won the state in the 2000 election, doesn’t care much about the state.

By this logic, Arnold Schwarzanalphabet absolutely hates Caleeeeeeefornia, and both Jimmy Carter and the Current President Bush must have unprintable opinions about nucular weapons.

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  1. 1.

    Michael Demmons

    November 26, 2003 at 7:08 pm

    So, it should be Nevambleah?

    :-)

  2. 2.

    lunacy

    November 26, 2003 at 7:18 pm

    Webster has two pronunciations.

    http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?ggneva02.wav=Nevada

    http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?ggneva03.wav=Nevada

  3. 3.

    MommaBear

    November 26, 2003 at 7:28 pm

    Dina lives in a perpetual state of confusion, methinks !!

  4. 4.

    Xrlq

    November 26, 2003 at 8:13 pm

    It might also be a good idea for the Sun to consider using the correct spelling of “pronounce” and “pronunciation.”

  5. 5.

    Matthew Stinson

    November 26, 2003 at 8:15 pm

    “Nevambleah” — sounds like a club for man-boy love and gambling

  6. 6.

    Charlie

    November 26, 2003 at 8:27 pm

    I wonder if these folks in Nevada know the proper pronunciation of “chinga te madre, pendejo”?

  7. 7.

    HH

    November 26, 2003 at 9:16 pm

    The most pressing issue of utmost importance since Bush saying “Pakis” and the horrible scandal that was Bush’s height being reported as possibly an inch too tall. Good to see the Dems continue to bring our attention to this.

  8. 8.

    Kimmitt

    November 26, 2003 at 9:32 pm

    Isn’t it “Chinga tu madre, pendejo”? One ought to get these details right, I think.

  9. 9.

    Darmon Thornton

    November 26, 2003 at 10:20 pm

    As a Nevadan, I don’t really care how people pronounce the word.

    A lot of overblown hype (especially from Dina Titus), IMHO.

  10. 10.

    Andrew Lazarus

    November 27, 2003 at 12:00 am

    How do the candidates do with “Oregon”?

  11. 11.

    Xrlq

    November 27, 2003 at 1:03 am

    Actually, it’s “chinga a tu madre, pendejo.” All human direct objects take “a,” you just don’t hear it in this case because it glides together with the final “a” in “chinga.”

  12. 12.

    Kimmitt

    November 27, 2003 at 3:11 am

    I knew I was forgetting something, thanks.

  13. 13.

    The Commissar

    November 27, 2003 at 9:10 am

    Thanks for the Spanish lesson.

    (Still confused about that Nevada/Nevambledah pronunciation.)

  14. 14.

    Charlie

    November 27, 2003 at 11:42 am

    Actually, in the local dialect (which preserves a lot of the Spanish of the 17th century in a matrix of amazing loan words from TV) the second person intimate pronoun is pronounced “t-schwa”, ergo often transliterated ‘te’.

  15. 15.

    Xrlq

    November 28, 2003 at 3:57 pm

    Which local dialect are you referring to? And what do you mean by “intimate” pronoun? Possessive, or something else?

  16. 16.

    Kimmitt

    November 28, 2003 at 8:27 pm

    “Intimate” as versus “formal;” its a distinction which has meaning in romance languages and used to have meaning in English back a few hundred years ago but no longer does.

  17. 17.

    Xrlq

    November 29, 2003 at 8:30 pm

    OK, but in that case the definition is not specific enough. There is a second person “intimate” (familiar/informal) pronoun “te,” it’s just the objective form, not the possessive. E.g., “fuck you” would be “chingate.” “Chinga te madre” would not make sense, however, unless the speaker was addressing his own mother, and telling her to go fuck herself.

  18. 18.

    dex

    May 5, 2004 at 4:29 pm

    this is not overblown at all. I can’t tell you how much it annoyed me & other St. Louisans when Bill Clinton pronounced Missouri “missour-uh” over and over.

  19. 19.

    Seattleite

    May 5, 2004 at 6:50 pm

    When Clinton was campaigning in Seattle at the Pike Place Market, He said how pleased he was to be there at PIKES PEAK market. Wrong state!!
    Of course, tourists always call it Pikes Place Market, with an extra “S”

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  1. Signifying Nothing says:
    November 26, 2003 at 7:13 pm

    You say Nevada, I say Nevada

    Both PoliBlog and Xrlq take note of this bizarre AP story that alleges that Bush mispronounced the name of the state of Nevada: Bush, in…

  2. dcthornton.com says:
    November 26, 2003 at 10:23 pm

    Who Cares?

    Bush mispronounces Nevada in first presidential visitNevada memo to George Bush: When making a first presidential visit to a state,…

  3. Ipse Dixit says:
    May 4, 2004 at 12:36 pm

    Not Exactly Rocket Science

    Another one for the “If Bush Did This, We’d Never Hear The End Of It” Files: John Kerry applauds the…

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