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Inconsequential pet peeve English speaking reporters pronouncing their name with accent
Posted on 6/19/26 at 1:01 pm
Posted on 6/19/26 at 1:01 pm
Over recent years I’ve been hearing it more and more on the MSM networks where reporters will deliver their full story/report in English without any accent and then at the end when they are signing off they go out of their way to pronounce their name in the most heavy accent as possible. I’ve mostly seen this with Hispanic speaking reporters. It’s just silly to me that they try so hard
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Posted on 6/19/26 at 1:04 pm to sidewalkside
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I’ve mostly seen this with Hispanic speaking reporters.
How does one speak Hispanic?
Posted on 6/19/26 at 1:05 pm to sidewalkside
Try that in my smalltown
Posted on 6/19/26 at 1:06 pm to sidewalkside
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Over recent years I’ve been hearing it more and more on the MSM networks where reporters will deliver their full story/report in English without any accent and then at the end when they are signing off they go out of their way to pronounce their name in the most heavy accent as possible. I’ve mostly seen this with Hispanic speaking reporters. It’s just silly to me that they try so hard
Dude, it’s their fricking name. Their “trying hard” is sanding the accent off of their normal speech. Asking them to, for them, mispronounce their name just to make you feel better is quite the fricking thing
Posted on 6/19/26 at 1:06 pm to sidewalkside
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It’s just silly to me that they try so hard
So you are mad that people pronounce their names the way they have always said it.
But changed their dialect for news to blend in with the USA.
You guys get mad over nothing.
Posted on 6/19/26 at 1:10 pm to sidewalkside
Posted on 6/19/26 at 1:40 pm to UltimaParadox
I used to get a kick out of listening to foreign news reports in Spanish, French, German, or Russian. The reporters' accents match the language they speak perfectly until the name of a US city or sports team gets mentioned, and then the words are most usually pronounced with a perfect mid-west American accent before going immediately back to their native language and accent.
Posted on 6/19/26 at 1:46 pm to sidewalkside
Or the 103.3 traffic girl that can’t say plaquemine or Evangeline correctly
Posted on 6/19/26 at 1:47 pm to sidewalkside
quote:if you don’t hear the uillean pipes and a jazz band when my name is said, that’s on you
go out of their way to pronounce their name in the most heavy accent as possible
Posted on 6/19/26 at 2:00 pm to sidewalkside
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I’ve mostly seen this with Hispanic speaking reporters. It’s just silly to me that they try so hard
Reminds me of the Hispanic reporter from Married with Children...
Posted on 6/19/26 at 2:03 pm to sidewalkside
SNL did a skit about probably 30 years ago.
Posted on 6/19/26 at 2:05 pm to sidewalkside
Posted on 6/19/26 at 2:08 pm to sidewalkside
How do you feel about people who speak English without an accent but pronounce their Cajun French names with a French pronunciation?
Posted on 6/19/26 at 2:15 pm to sidewalkside
This might be the dumbest thread I’ve read all week.
And I’ve read through half the Poli board
And I’ve read through half the Poli board
Posted on 6/19/26 at 2:19 pm to mdomingue
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How do you feel about people who speak English without an accent but pronounce their Cajun French names with a French pronunciation?
I bet this really chapped his arse.
Posted on 6/19/26 at 2:43 pm to Joshjrn
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Asking them to, for them, mispronounce their name just to make you feel better is quite the fricking thing
This with one exception. I have some distant relatives that put the French inflection on our last name I think they are pretentious figs. Also, the way those pussies that were too weak to walk all the way to Louisiana pronouncing names like Leblanc.
Posted on 6/19/26 at 2:46 pm to sidewalkside
You mean like Gerry Rivera?
Posted on 6/19/26 at 2:46 pm to sidewalkside
Speaking English then slipping into Spanish for “proper” pronunciation is annoying. Wouldn’t the English pronunciation be proper in English?
Posted on 6/19/26 at 2:50 pm to junkfunky
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This with one exception. I have some distant relatives that put the French inflection on our last name I think they are pretentious figs. Also, the way those pussies that were too weak to walk all the way to Louisiana pronouncing names like Leblanc.
I only consider it pretentious if someone “goes back” to a previous pronunciation. I’m never going to fault someone for pronouncing their name the way their mamma pronounced their name.
Posted on 6/19/26 at 2:52 pm to sidewalkside
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Over recent years I’ve been hearing it more and more on the MSM networks where reporters will deliver their full story/report in English without any accent and then at the end when they are signing off they go out of their way to pronounce their name in the most heavy accent as possible. I’ve mostly seen this with Hispanic speaking reporters. It’s just silly to me that they try so hard
Man you sound like a bitch
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