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July 22, 2024 4:24 pm  #1


Something To Listen For: Are Newscasters Pronouncing This Name Right?

For sticklers in the crowd, something new to listen and watch for - are the people you listen to on TV and radio pronouncing the name of Kamala Harris, the would-be Democratic candidate for U.S. President, correctly? 

Chances are they're not. 

How to correctly pronounce Kamala Harris’s name

 

July 22, 2024 8:04 pm  #2


Re: Something To Listen For: Are Newscasters Pronouncing This Name Right?

Like most people, I wasn't pronouncing it correctly either.

 

July 22, 2024 8:40 pm  #3


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Comma-lah

 

July 22, 2024 8:45 pm  #4


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Leave it to a Brit to set all of the Yanks and Canucks right.  

 

July 22, 2024 9:11 pm  #5


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kamALa the ugandan giant from 80s wrestling ruined it for the rest of us...

 

July 22, 2024 9:35 pm  #6


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I was in the car and I heard the speech she made to the Biden/Harris campaign staff. Her speaking skills seem to have improved from what I remember. I like this line about her time as an Attorney General in California and Prosecutor: She may be very effective in a debate with a "felon" ( yes I know that depends on which side you sit:

In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds. Predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say: I know Donald Trump's type,” she said.

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July 22, 2024 9:51 pm  #7


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Pronunciation counts, even if you're not a Stickler and who knows, maybe "Weird Al" Yankovic will whip up a new song: Kamala Khameleon 🎶

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July 23, 2024 11:35 am  #8


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An old DJ friend of mine who lives in Wisconsin just sent me this meme. I thought it was hilarious.

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July 23, 2024 11:50 am  #9


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Oh, and he also sent this along, which isn't relevant to the thread, but I couldn't resist sharing. 

What were these headline writers thinking?

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July 24, 2024 9:20 am  #10


Re: Something To Listen For: Are Newscasters Pronouncing This Name Right?

Or, how about...."Pretty hard not to watch the never ending train wreck next door"...... 


 

 

July 24, 2024 12:34 pm  #11


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And the 20-year-old guy who shot Donald Trump has still not said what his motive was.