From Thinkprogress:
As President Bush spoke to the United Nation’s General Assembly this morning, “a marked-up draft of the president’s speech popped up on the U.N.’s website” that included “phonetic spellings of some names and countries, and the cellphone numbers for Bush speechwriters.” White House Press Secretary Dana Perino got annoyed when a reporter asked “if the president has trouble pronouncing some country’s names,” calling it an “offensive question” before saying, “it was taken down and there’s nothing more to say about it.” Blake Hounshell has some of the phonetic guides over at Foreign Policy:
• Kyrgyzstan [KEYR-geez-stan]
• Kyrgyzstan [KEYR-geez-stan]
• Mauritania [moor-EH-tain-ee-a]
• Harare [hah-RAR-ray]
• Mugabe [moo-GAH-bee]
• Sarkozy [sar-KO-zee]
• Caracas [kah-RAH-kus]
5 comments:
It must be so difficult to be a handler of the Gerbil, you can't assume he knows anything, nothing. If you do and you have not covered it and broke it down so the Gerbil can understand, quizzed him and requized him and gone over pronouciations over and over, how he can keep handlers I will never know, excuse me, from what I have seen and heard of late he has lost some, and it's no wonder what an unbelievably stressful job.
He still can't get past My Pet Goat.
BONE - head
Oh wait, that is not a country.
Most Americans would find it hard to pronounce foreign names as it is for foreign people to pronounce English. It takes practice and that's were the problem is with the Gerbil. I notice that the Iran President did his homework before coming to the US. He knew everything that has been going on in the US and did very well in speaking in English. It's takes a person to put effort in what they do and Bush wants it handed to him because that's what he's had done for him all his life.
Now the World Leaders had Bush to laugh at during the meeting.
An imbecile President with an imbecilic legacy.
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