Originally posted by genius/idoit
It's almost like he deliberately pronounces it different than any other American

You mean, the right way?

Wouldn't you want people in other nations to pronounce the name of your country the way it's intended to be? Or should we just make up our own names for countries entirely?

Why should he mispronounce the name of the country to make you feel better about yourself?

The fact that he's probably saying it closer to correct doesn't concern you? You know, since he was educated there.

You'd prefer he was just as wrong as you? As a symbol of solidarity?

Ah, by that logic we should all be saying "NEW-CUE-LER" because that's what all those original US Senators called nuclear. That'd be awesome - Americans values that we mispronounce as a matter of PATRIOTISM. You aren't a real American if you don't mispronounce things!

[edit on 2009/12/1 by Aeons]

YES, YES, YES!!!!!

I'm glad you brought this up! Drives me nuts to hear how he says it.

This is America. We speak English (some of us still do at least.) We don't say PAH-kee-stahn. We say Pack-ist-an.

Oh no. His PARENTS made religious decisions for him as a child.

That's UNHEARD OF.



This is great. Seriously. Just freaking awesome. Mispronouncing stuff is now an American VALUE.

And you guys complain about the education system.

Oh man. American Patriots mispronounce #, and not doing it makes you suspicious. You mispronounce what we tell ya to or we's gonna sick a-our dogs on ya.


We speak ENGLISH. (bwhahahahahaha) Ya know. I'm gonna get a beer.

Its either Pack-ist-an or nothing I say.

Either you are with us (Pack-ist-an) or you are against us (PAH-kee-stahn)

Now where did I put me TallyBan - TallyBan - Tally me Banana.

I think I am going to go to bed now. We have now hit a new low on ATS.

Dorian Soran

The good doctor!

Originally posted by genius/idoit


Is it just me?I realize how trivial this sounds even as I write it but still it infuriates me.It's almost like he deliberately pronounces it different than any other American to prove to his Muslim brothers he's more Muslim hip than the rest of us or something.


It's not just Pakistan but the way he says Taliban and Al Qaeda also!


Burns me up!

Any chance to hate on President Obama eh?

Please don't ever come to New Zealand (Nu Zild).

You wouldn't like the way we pronounce our words and you would probably become apoplectic and be a drain on our health system.

Get over it.

It's part of the beauty of language.



[edit on 1-12-2009 by aorAki]

If I say "I despise this scumbag politician", can we just split the difference? And no, I'm not kidding.

If this trend continues, I think I'll have to insist that Americans stop claiming they speak "English" and instead rename whatever their language is becoming in a flurry of patriotic mispronunciations.

I suggest Americanese. With a real nasal sound on the ese. Like sneeze.

The OP sounds like one of those jealous teen girls in middle school who hates the new pretty girl, so she dogs her out to her friends about her hair being too long. Or her eyes are too big and green, like some funky giant emerald.

This pic sums it all up...

OP, if i knew who you are i would follow you and say pakistan the way obama says it all day. bahkustahn, bahkustanh, bahkustanh, bahkustanh, bahkustanh, bahkustanh, bahkustanh. umuri# (american), umuri#, umuri#, umuri#.

I dunno. I've got three daughters, and one of them, when she talks about her pillow, she says, pellow. I don't know why she pronunces it that way, but I don't lose any sleep over it. She sleeps with her head on a pellow, and I sleep with my head on a pillow. WTF?If she sleeps with her head on a Quran, or a Bible and I sleep with my head on my wife's cooch. So what? lol. We've embraced something of value to us. lol.

I don't give a good crap how someone talks. Why do you?


Give me more than this, OP. Perhaps you saw my redneck looking self coming down the pike and thought I was actually a redneck? LOL

i'll add it to my list of reasons I don't like him as president.

Why Not

He is kissing to much foreign butt anyway and it does sound pretentious.

I think our list of real issues is far bigger than this anyway, concern at being perceived as cultured... better feared and tolerated than sucking up and taken advantage of...he's more concerned about international image than domestic issues...so screw him and his English Pakistani dictionary.