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that matt guy is real sharp and smart. America is lucky to have him.
Just ask matt. He’ll tell you all about it.
I mean just think about it. How shitty would your life be without matt yglesias?
Very shitty no doubt. Very shitty.
B’rock is the Potemkin Intellectual. He hasn’t studied in depth and doesn’t speak any languages other than English, but pronouncing “Pock-ee-stahn” leads others to believe that he just might know Pashto or something. Kind of like the avalanche of legal scholarship that he didn’t author after being editor of the Harvard Law Review, (which is customarily the start of an illustrious legal career, not its zenith) or his embargoed SAT scores (which, before the “recentering” late 90s, can be somewhat accurately converted into a reliable I.Q. score).
Can you tell I don’t like him?
Also, I prefer Julio, or in a pinch, Enrique.
He has a transcript of that speech, and the pronunciation of Pakistan is what bothers him?
Sheesh.
An old Yglesias favorite of mine.
I can’t seem to find the post (memory hole?).
But, here is another’s recollection:
My prior fave was his disparagement of the waitress who pronounced “bruschetta” as “brus-ket’-a”, which, unfortunately for Matt, turns out to be how the Italians say it.
How to pronounce “juicebox” without offending his sensibilities, I wonder?
Heh, Alec. I think he goes with “joooosbox”.
Damn. That’s some trenchant Ivy League insight over there.
Here’s mine:
“Pockyston” — explicable by some combination of dumbfuck preening and that unmentionable hanging-around-with-Pakis he did — aside, the guy mispronounces a giant swaying fuckload of commonly said words, names that have been big in the news, things everyone has heard, and almost everyone has said.
Why? He doesn’t do it like a typical shithead does, stumbling over unfamiliar or unobvious things. He just says words wrong.
I don’t think this is evidence of his being surrounded by fearful ass-kissers (though there is that), but that he — and I’m being precisely literal here — can’t hear other people’s voices.
You can psychologize that (and fit it to a lot of known things) on your own, I’m sure.
…
I heard that today he said “archivist” in a goofy way. Didn’t hear him do it. Did he say it how it looks, sort of BBC style, instead of with the long i?
I do that, too, because I’ve read the word thousands of times, but I’ve never exchanged it in conversation, and I’ve only said it aloud maybe twice.
There’s your “He’s too beautiful for this world” excuse, lefties. Take as needed.
(He didn’t choo-choo the “ch,” did he? That’d be just funny.)
Damn that’s long.
Iglesias gets paid for that ?!
If you really want deep thoughts watch this.
Or is it deep sleep?
For an explanation on why “O” mispronounces words see this utube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X16VAMrz5oI&feature=player_embedded
What no preview? How do I know I linkied correctly, damn.
I kratsche mein hodensaaaahck.
Matty has gotten way, way too self-important. Isn’t he one of the many current big-media types who used to comment here, from time to time?
Yep.
Mattilda just wants to be on record as having taken Obama to the woodshed once the inevitable Comedown occurs. “I never liked that fucker’s pronunciation of Pakistan,” he’ll tell the bar patrons. “And I was the first one to come out against that shit, too.”
“Wench! Drinks! On Collins’s tab!”
I believe “Yglesias” is pronounced “hed-up-hiz-ass.”
Reich-wing Neanderthals. Pockystan is, as a clean, articulate, community organizer would know, the country of chocolate-covered biscuits.