"A lot of people said I won the first debate," Trump says at end of this interview. No. No, they did not. https://t.co/GDuCnEtzzg
— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) October 6, 2016
Deadbeat Don has reached the point where he no longer even pretends to care about that “voting” arglebargle. He’s got as much chance of winning Nevada’s electoral votes as I have of winning the next Miss Universe pageant, but there’s plenty Trump fans for a rally and he can charge Trump hotel expenses to his campaign account, so hellooo Neh-VAH-da!
Local reporter got an exclusive interview before Trump’s Henderson rally. Many softballs were lobbed, and still the candidate’s responses seemed… less than presidential:
… During a conversation about nuclear waste storage, Trump acknowledged his familiarity with Nevada’s Yucca Mountain…
“I’m very friendly with this area. I have the hotel here, I will tell you I’m going to take a look at it because so many people here are talking about it. I’ll take a look at it, and the next time you interview me, I’ll have an answer,” said Trump.
Trump was pressed on the issue as it pertains to tourism in southern Nevada.
“Got an idea, just brainstorming, bury the waste under the wall, no one would come near it,” said Snyder. “…the concern is, if we had it it would hurt the tourism industry, scare people, do you share that concern?”
“Number one is safety and it is a little too close to major population, so I will take a look at it and I will have an opinion,” said Trump….
“Do you worry that a trade war would hurt tourism and your business interests here,” asked Snyder.
Trump supported his comments saying, “It will actually help, we’re just talking about fairness, not like tough like we’re not going to do business. Just tough so the US can make something.”
“But what if China said no more visas to go to Las Vegas and stay at Trump Tower,” pressed Snyder.
“If China ever did that, and we cut off relationship with China, China would go bust so fast,” said Trump….
As for his performance in the first debate, Trump says he doesn’t plan to do a single thing differently during the second one.
“A lot of people said I won the first debate.”…
(Video at the link.)
MO congressman @USRepLong now speaking at Henderson Trump rally. No NV congressional/senate candidates here
— Riley Snyder (@RileySnyder) October 5, 2016
Amazing to think GOP WH nominee is speaking in Nevada's largest city and only GOP elected here is little-known assemblyman.
— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) October 5, 2016
Trump on Russia/Putin: "I don’t love, I don’t hate, we’ll see how it works."
— Riley Snyder (@RileySnyder) October 5, 2016
Trump doesn't like the new Clinton attack ad (on his vets comments): "I guess we'll sue 'em. Let's sue 'em."
— Rebecca Sinderbrand (@sinderbrand) October 5, 2016
"We're going to end education." — Trump. I don't think he meant that. On the other hand, it is his campaign.
— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) October 5, 2016
"Mike Pence did an incredible job, and I'm getting a lot of credit," Trump says in Nevada.
— Caitlin Huey-Burns (@CHueyBurnsRCP) October 5, 2016
But the one incident that’s getting the most buzz is yet another example of Trump’s firm conviction that primate dominance is always a winning strategy…
In Reno,Trump says "Neh-VAH-da," declares "no one says it the other way" which is met by confusion, as many folks here say it the other way
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) October 5, 2016
Donald Trump just spent two minutes in Reno insisting that Nevada is pronounced "Nev-AH-da," which is incorrect.
— Scott Bixby (@scottbix) October 5, 2016
As a born and raised Nevadan, I can vouch that this actually bothers people in the Silver State. https://t.co/0PSMsulzj3
— Dan Merica (@danmericaCNN) October 5, 2016
THIS WAS LITERALLY AN EPISODE OF VEEP. https://t.co/hQD9tDECgc
— Tim Hogan (@timjhogan) October 6, 2016
So @therickwilson just mispronounced NV and called it a "really dodgy place." Just because the second part is true does not excuse the 1st.
— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) October 6, 2016
Sunday’s townhall debate is going to be… a mess. Anyone want to calculate the odds on Trump trying to shout down the first person in the audience who asks a question he doesn’t like? Extra points if it’s a little old lady or a visibly scarred veteran.
Trentrunner
Senator Harry Reid (D-NV & CEO of Asskicking, Inc.) had a few cherce tweets for The Orange Scrotum:
(Reid gets bonus points for proper semicolon use; he will be missed.)
SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
I believe this Ne-VAH-da rally was the same event in which he told terminally ill people to be sure and vote for him before they die.
Brent
I live in Nevada. I doubt he will win but I wouldn’t put it out of the realm of possibilities. He won’t win Las Vegas, which is where I am and where the vast majority of Nevadans live. But he has some support here and more in the rest of the State. As I say, I don’t think it will be enough for him to take it, but I wouldn’t say his chances are nil either.
Anoniminous
And the “deepest bench of Republican presidential candidates EVAH!” couldn’t put this ridiculous goofball away.
Chat Noir
I love “Veep” and thought of the “Nevada” episode when I read about Trump mispronouncing Nevada. Hope het gets his ass handed to him in a major way on November 8.
Geeno
Young woman of color – almost certainly
Mnemosyne
As I mentioned in yesterday’s pronounciation thread, when I was doing voter registration in Nevada last weekend, they made sure we knew the correct way to pronounce it so we wouldn’t be instantly recognizable as out-of-staters. Knowing your audience is important.
Baud
State names are tricky, and people can be sensitive. For example, did you know that, even though it’s “The Ohio State University,” the name of the state is simply “Ohio” and not “The Ohio.”
I don’t think my campaign ever recovered from that gaffe.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: It may have also been when you referred to Iraq as ‘The Iraq’.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: They are like Ukrainians that way.
Mark B.
Or after, it doesn’t really matter to Trump either way.
Mary G
The reporter did ask why his hotel workers aren’t in the local union, which represents most of the other employees on the strip. DT wasn’t too happy with the question and said something about treating his employees the best so they don’t need no stinking unions. I think we have another lie for the list.
nonynony
@Baud: Gaffe? Hell you’re lucky the university didn’t sue for trademark violation.
Iowa Old Lady
There’s a town west of Ames called Nevada–pronounced Nev-AY-duh.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA: Lesson learned. Next time, I’ll remember to look up the right information on The Google.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Remember, the internets are a series of tubes, not dump trunks*.
*I should note that the person that originally said that graduated from the University that was Node One on the internet.
Feebog
Given the current trend in polling and the Clinton ground game vs. well, no ground game, Trump is going to have to hit an out-of-the-park grand slam home in the debate Sunday. Otherwise, this thing is a wrap.
JPL
Trump is having a practice session in NH tonight. I assume the audience will be handed out the questions. If he stumbles, he will not debate. Of course, the hurricane will be blamed.
West of the Cascades
This mispronunciation is a big deal to folks in Nevada – just like people who call my state Or-eh-gone. Nuh uh – it’s Orygun. Maybe Trump will come up here and hit the Daily Double. Just so happens we have some folks from Nevada staying with us temporarily in Multnomah County jail … Ammon Bundy pronounces it “Ne-VAD-a” just like Harry Reid!
The Golux
@Baud:
Isn’t that supposed to be “Teh Google”? Get with the program, man!
(Or, as a client from long ago would say, “pogram”.)
Gin & Tonic
@Omnes Omnibus: The Democratic VP candidate, Tim “The” Kaine, unfortunately says “the” Ukraine.
This upsets English-speaking Ukrainians, but Ukrainian- or Russian-speaking Ukrainians are a little confused, because neither of those languages has the definite article, so when they learn English they tend to use “the” where they don’t need it and skip it where they do.
Don’t get me started on Islamic Republic of The Gambia.
Baud
@The Golux:
Get with the pogram? Isn’t that the Trump campaign slogan?
Turgidson
Tremendous.
BillinGlendaleCA
@JPL:
I’m sure he’ll have to fly down to Mar-a-Lago to personally take care of hurricane damage.
Schlemazel
@Omnes Omnibus:
Well, they have good reason to be sensitive. “The Ukraine” implies a province of Russia while “Ukraine” is a nation. Ukrainians (actual ones, not the Russians shipped in to “passify” the place) are kinda resentful of the “The” part
redshirt
@Baud: You mean The Google?
Keith P.
I guess most people are noticing by now that his answers betray an utter lack of knowledge of local issues. Examples (not even bothering to list the questions because the answers are his generic ‘I didn’t read the book, ma’am’ standards):
“Well I think we’re going to end up working something out with them, we have good relationships and I think we’ll end up getting something that is satisfactory.”
“I think we’ll do very well here, we just got polls that show we’re doing very well and I think that will work out very well.”
They’re like something John Oliver would read and then go, “And these aren’t even actual quotes from Donald Trump, but you thought they were anyway” (these are actual quotes)
BillinGlendaleCA
@Turgidson: Well it makes sense since Trump says he loves the poorly educated.
Baud
@Keith P.:
And the English language.
Hal
I always thought there was something depressing about Reno. A city that lookshe better at night.
sigaba
@Omnes Omnibus: Ukrainian doesn’t have linguistic articles, so they call it “Ukraine,” not “The Ukraine.”
In fact they call it “Ukrainiya”
SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
@Hal:
As do many of us.
(ETA: “She may very well pass for forty-three / In the dusk with the light behind her.”)
Bruce K
On the one hand, I just learned today that I’ve been pronouncing Nevada wrong for over forty years, so I can’t throw stones.
On the other hand, one, I’m not running for President of the United States, of which Nevada is one, and two, I’d like to think I’d accept a correction on that point instead of doubling down.
I swear, the need to always be right is almost pathological there, and it might just be the fatal flaw that finally brings down the vulgar talking yam.
Patricia Kayden
@Baud: Well, at least you knew better than to refer to African Americans as “The Blacks”. I’ll give you that. Better luck in 2020 with your campaign.
Joshua Norton
“a lot of people” = the voices in my head, my hired campaign hacks & Gary Busey when he takes my calls.
bmoak
I thought the format of the town hall questions was largely decided by a popularity contest amongst questions submitted online.. Last I checked, all of the most popular questions were things like “What could have been done to save those lives in Benghazi?” and “Should presidential candidates be required to make public all of their government e-mails?”
Eric U.
this whole discussion about how to say Nevada reminded me that I used to call it “Ne VAD ah” like the locals when I lived out west. Now that I live in Pennsylvania, I have reverted to “Ne Vah dah” like all easterners. Pretty normal, I suppose.
@Joshua Norton: millions of people think Trump won the debate. They’re idiots. But that’s lots of people. Probably his campaign staff just doesn’t bother to talk about it, he’s used to yes men, so it would be ineffective anyway.
? Martin
@Keith P.: He appears not to read.
Gin & Tonic
@sigaba:
No they don’t. It’s “Україна,” pronounced “Ukrayina.”
shomi
I predict the drumpster fire will use the Hurricane as an excuse to cancel the debate. Instead he will fly into Florida for a 2 minute photo op handing out Trump water.
Mary G
When Joe Buck couldn’t broadcast in 2011, he said he had a virus. It was a lie. It was because of his hair plug addiction.
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch: That’s why God invented blindfolds.
@Patricia Kayden: I do now!
Redshift
@Anoniminous:
The striking thing is, a lot of us thought at the time that the reason for that was that they didn’t disagree with him on any of the issues, so they couldn’t attack him the way a Democrat would be able to. But think about it — how many of the effective Clinton attacks have been about the issues? There are some, sure, but the main ones are all about him being an asshole, lying a lot, and being secretive about his business and taxes. The “deep bench” probably couldn’t have attacked him for being an asshole, because the conservative base, unlike the general electorate, loves assholes, but the rest? Any of them could have hit him on those things, if they’d had effective oppo research and they hadn’t all been waiting for someone else to take him down (and probably go down in flames with him) so they could be the last man standing.
It really is true that they lost to him because they were a bunch of crappy campaigners, and, despite the media chatter about a Clinton “coronation,” they were hoping to be the “next in line” the GOP always picks.
sigaba
@Gin & Tonic: I wonder if I gave the Russian pronounciation or just misremembered one.
? Martin
I hope people in Florida and SC are taking this storm seriously. NWS is sending out the same sorts of ‘oh shit’ vibes as they did with Katrina and Sandy.
Baud
@Mary G: It least it wasn’t a butt plug addiction. Poor Aikman.
Mnemosyne
@Bruce K:
I’m assuming you don’t also have large business interests in Nevada — like maybe a big hotel — that would mean you would have traveled to the state several times (at least) and spoken to people who did pronounce it correctly.
Don’t worry, if you come to Los Angeles, we won’t ask you to guess the right way to say “San Pedro” (it’s not the way you’d assume if you’re a non-local).
Steeplejack (phone)
If only that show had been called CSI: The Cyber, I think it would still be on the air.
Gin & Tonic
@Mnemosyne: I always liked the Firesign Theater’s Nick Danger routine, where they pronounced “Los Angeles” with the hard “g.”
Corner Stone
@Eric U.:
It reminded me that I couldn’t give a shit less about anyone who gets upset about this.
Eric U.
@Redshift: Brinks trucks full of money should have gotten the oppo research needed to disqualify trump. Maybe there never were any trucks backing up. There is no evidence that John Bush knew how to run a campaign or anything else for that matter. He isn’t good with people or giving speeches, and apparently he can’t do the most simple things needed to win. SAD!
@Mary G: So close, so close to never having to listen to Joe Buck again. If only the virus had spread to Brent Musberger
@Corner Stone: this is the sort of thing that gets me to say it wrong just to tweak Nevadans. Sorta like going to Duboyz Pennsylvania and pronouncing it Dubois.
Baud
@Redshift: They all wanted someone else to piss off his base, because his base is the GOP base. It was a collective action problem.
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack (phone): She should have stuck with speaking to dead people.
lamh36
Guess I’ll need to start buying more Ben & Jerry’s
@benandjerrys
Black Lives Matter. Choosing to be silent in the face of such injustice is not an option. #BlackLivesMatter
BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: My favorite was when I’d call in for prescriptions at Costco, they’d call it “Los Felis” instead of “Los Feeless”.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I agree, but I think you should spit between your fingers and spin in a circle three times.
SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
Here’s a really nice campaign ad from HRC (h/t Digby). I especially like the little jabs about “we don’t measure success by the height of our skyscrapers or the size of our bank accounts,” LOL. Well-played, Secretary Clinton!
I never wanted children, never had children, and took proactive steps to ensure that I would not have children IYKWIMAITYD. But Hillary’s passionate commitment to children, women, and families speaks to me in a surprisingly profound way. The fact that she is pro-choice as well as pro-child speaks volumes.
SFAW
@Iowa Old Lady:
Oh, that was just a prank by some enterprising Cyclones, back when my Dad went there. (State, not Nev-AY-duh, that is.) Amazing to see that the locals bought into it all these years.
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch: I’m with you on kids, but it’s such a damn good ad.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud:
But enough about the Baud!2016 campaign foibles.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Corner Stone:
By the time it finally tanked, the audience was dead people. I felt sorry for her. Everything about that show was awful.
Punchy
@Brent: Yup. Pretty sure this was polling pink not too long ago. Not impossible for Trump to take it, although I dont think it would matter if he did.
SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
@Baud:
One of the best of the campaign. She has a really excellent communications team.
Geeno
@West of the Cascades: The rude pundit said to pronounce it like the phrase “or a gun”
BillinGlendaleCA
Got my official voters pamphlet in the mail today 224 pages!
Dork
So is it Or-E-gon or Or-ah-gon?
Enhanced Voting Techinques
Ne-VAH-da sounds like something someone from Long Island would say. Considering Neveda is a Spanish word thislooks like more of Trump’s anti-Mexican dogwistles.
Geeno
@Baud: No that’s “Get with the pogrom”
Ryan
I got asked 4 times on campus today if I am registered to vote just today. The record over the last 18 years is once. NC is voting!
BillinGlendaleCA
@SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch: They were giving a lot of praise to the “Mirror” ad on Morning Joe this morning.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Punchy: I saw earlier today that the, or at least one, reason for the bad polling in the past in NV, especially Reid’s 2010 upset, was a lack of polling among Hispanics. Been a while, and I imagine pollsters and campaigns have at least tried to address that.
Tokyokie
@Iowa Old Lady: There’s one of those in Missouri, too, not far from Versailles (pronounced “ver-SAYLES.”)
Baud
@Geeno: That’s what I meant. They don’t pay me to spell correctly.
Mary G
@lamh36: Good old hippies! Ben & Jerry’s has a van they drive around giving away free ice cream to people who register to vote and are also campaigning to re-enact the VRA. I love their ice cream, so I’m with you, now I have a good excuse.
Ryan
@Dork: Or-E-gun
Amir Khalid
@The Golux:
Don’t you mean, “get with the programme“?
Ryan
@Enhanced Voting Techinques: Luon-IIIIIlund.
Davis X. Machina
@? Martin: Read the warnings for Charleston to my wife. Her response: “Sounds like Pompeii.”
Baud
Calais, Maine is pronounced callus, not the French way.
Phylllis
@? Martin: We’re about 90 miles inland & our county emergency preparedness folks are urging residents who live in mobile homes to go to the local shelters tomorrow to ride out the storm.
? Martin
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Again, I’ll note that turnout models will be a mess this year. Knowing how many Latinos are in Nevada is easy, and how to reach them is easy. Figuring out how many will vote is not easy – especially this year.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Baud: they pronounce Maine wrong, too.
Mnemosyne
@Gin & Tonic:
I’ve always wondered where that hard “g” comes from. It’s definitely not the Spanish pronounciation.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Mnemosyne: always makes me think of Anjelica Huston in The Grifters. I read a thing about whatever last of the LA Times Chandlers is still with us, and he uses the hard G, the article kind of implied it was an old money thing
guachi
@BillinGlendaleCA:
To be fair, it actually is ‘The Iraq’ just like it’s ‘The Netherlands’.
Lots of Arabic countries use the definite article in the common name of the country (like Sudan and Jordan)
BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: My dad used to pronounce it that way sometimes, maybe early 20th century midwestern(he was from southwest Missouri)?
Schlemazel
@Gin & Tonic:
My grandfathers brother (who lived in San Francisco) always pronounced it Lahs Angle-ees
no idea where that came from but Firesign was the other place I heard it
Schlemazel
@Baud:
Lye-ma Ohio is spelled the same as Lee-ma Peru
I assume it was named for the beans
Baud
Major Cole/AL stompage. Literally same time stamp.
patroclus
Cairo, Illinois is pronounced KAY-ro.
Marsellies, is Mar-sales.
trollhattan
@Feebog:
Hilz just needs to hold serve from this point on. I”d prefer 6-0; 6-0; 6-0 (men”s rules) in November and some coattails, though.
SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
@BillinGlendaleCA:
That’s another good one.
In fact, of the HRC ads I’ve seen throughout this campaign (I think I’ve seen most, but may have missed a few that were geographically targeted) I have yet to see an ineffective one.
Mnemosyne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Hmm. So it sounds like maybe it’s the old-school pronounciation and it’s shifted over the years. Now I’m wondering how Jack Webb pronounced it on “Dragnet.”
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: 707, I used to fly on those when I was a kid.
SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
@Baud:
@patroclus:
Albany, Georgia, is pronounced AL-BEN-ny.
patroclus
In Texas, it’s often not “Fort Worth” it’s “Foat Wuth.”
There’s a major street in Wichita, Kansas spelled “Greenwich” but don’t pronounce it like you’re from England (Gren-itch), it’s pronounced “Green-Witch.”
Lizzy L
El Sobrante, CA — the next town over from where I live — is pronounced Ehlsobranny (rhymes with Hell no granny) by locals. It took me about a decade living here to switch from Spanish to local pronunciation.
@Schlemazel: “Comin’ into Los Angeles; bringin’ in a couple of keys; Don’t touch my bags, if you please, Mr. Customs Man…”
Schlemazel
@Lizzy L:
Chicken flyin everywhere around the plane
Could we ever feel much finer?
Anne Laurie
@Gin & Tonic:
Speaking of that area, I was working in the Africana library at a midwestern university when Upper Volta’s leader decided to change its name to Burkina Faso. Which is a compound from two of the local languages meaning, approximately, ‘The Country of Upright Men’.
A researcher who’d just returned from his Peace Corps stint told me that, yeah, the obvious lewd joke worked in both of those languages much as it did in English. Dick jokes seem to be a universal resource…
Anne Laurie
@SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch: I still think PEER-ie, Michigan holds the Weird Mispronunciation title.
You’d think that anybody who was gonna name their town Pierre would have some idea how it was pronounced…
Ruviana
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Seems to maybe be an old-person thing; my grandmothers and one of my old professors pronounced it that way.
SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
@Anne Laurie:
AL, I lived nine very long years of my life in Michigan and have never heard of “Pierre, MI,” with any pronunciation.
Are you perhaps thinking of “Lapeer”? That’s a corruption of “La Pierre,” but the current spelling is consistent with its pronunciation.
ETA: Or are you thinking of Pierre, SD, which I believe is indeed pronounced “Peer.” But in that case, your argument is with the South Dakotans, not the Michiganders.
hovercraft
Why can’t these morons ever use the google machine before they make fools out of themselves?
schrodinger's cat
@Anne Laurie: BTW, did you get the email I sent you with my last review? It was Sunday evening, I think. Will also put up a new poll for classic comedies to be reviewed by the Mnem, soon.
O. Felix Culpa
MAD-rid is how you pronounce Madrid, New Mexico. Former ghost town turned tourist haven, with great jalapeno & cucumber margaritas for the quaffing.
Soylent Green
It’s ORE – a – gun (not quite gun, but between gun and gehn).
In high school I went on a date with Joe Buck’s sister. Classmate of mine. Joe is younger and wasn’t there yet.
Mnemosyne
@hovercraft:
To be fair, there are very few conservatives who would recognize that pin since none of them were ever in the military, and they certainly would never let their children join.
gogol's wife
@Mnemosyne:
He pronounced it new style.
Steve in the ATL
@SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch: my argument with Michiganders is about their stupid prohibition on left turns. You have to drive past your destination and make a u-turn.
Fuckers.
Steve in the ATL
@O. Felix Culpa: that pronunciation is familiar to current and former residents of Memphis, which lies on the New Madrid fault.
ETA: go Tigers!
SiubhanDuinne, liberal mob enforcer bitch
@Steve in the ATL:
Either that is a new rule, or I was a total scofflaw when I lived in Michigan 1975-84.
(Or perhaps local/municipal/county laws, not statewide.)
Mostly, though, I agree with your final word.
Rusty
Trump has said before he wants to get rid of all “government education”, in other words no more public schools. That’s what he meant. I doubt most most voters understand this, he wants to completely eliminate all our public schools.
Ajabu
@Mnemosyne:
I had a friend from No. CA come to visit me in L.A. and when I asked where she was for pickup she said “On Sep-ul- veeda Blvd.” With the emphasis on the wrong syllable.
Ajabu
@Schlemazel:
NYC has a Houston St. pronounced How-stun.
Mnemosyne
@Ajabu:
I think I used to say it that way when I first arrived. Luckily, there’s a song that can help her out.
lige
Born and raised in Oregon and I’ve never understood the three syllable Or – y – gun pronunciation guide it’s really two syllables like “Orr-gun” or even “Orrg’n” .
And don’t get me started on how grating it is to hear people pronounce Nevada like Trump did.
Ajabu
And, just to show you how weird the world actually is, there’s a town on the Mississippi Gulf Coast name Gautier and the locals pronounce it correctly as Go-Shay.
Fucking rednecks, you just can’t trust ’em.
Monala
I think the weirdest part about the Trump Nevada pronunciation incident is that he said he had a friend who mispronounced it and was killed for it. WTF?
Ajabu
@Mnemosyne:
And I used to play music at Stage One on Pico in the 1970’s.
liberal
@Iowa Old Lady: Nope. East of Ames.
sukabi
@Turgidson: don’t need education any more, drumpfs got all the best words. And he’s keeping them for himself.
Corner Stone
@lige:
How grating is it, leegay?
lige
@Corner Stone:
How do you know that’s not how I pronounce it?
Corner Stone
@lige: I have no idea how you pronounce Nevada.
Ken
When does he visit Missouri? There are two accepted pronunciations, so I’m wondering if he’ll come up with a third one.
sloan
I remember phone banking into Nevada from California in 2008 and we were told very specifically how to pronounce it so as to not offend anyone.
It was treated like the most basic thing you had to know before speaking to Nevada residents to show you gave enough of a crap that you could be bothered to pronounce the name of their state correctly.
BruceFromOhio
@Baud: No worries, old chum, all is forgiven.
Corner Stone
@sloan:
I get the basic level of respect, in that the people are showing they give a shit and all.
But how fucking delicate are the flowers who are actually offended by this? I mean, if you pronounce it Nee-vah-dur are you somehow talking about a prison population in North Korea or some shit?
Do Polar Bears come and eat you in your sleep?
sloan
@Corner Stone: yeah lol I don’t know. At the time our Governor was an Austrian immigrant who famously pronounced California as “Cullyfawnya” and that was the last thing on anyone’s mind. If anything it made people like him more.
lige
@Corner Stone:
It’s irritating to have someone mispronounce where you’re from especially if you are from something as big as a US State and the orange gremlin doing the mispronouncing ostensibly speaks the same language as you.
sloan
@lige:I think Nevadans would have thought we were a bunch of morons if we couldn’t say the name of their state correctly.
And who wants to vote for a moron?
Mom Says I'm Handsome
@Mnemosyne: Everything I know about San Pedro I learned from Mike Watt.