Thursday, July 16, 2009

Bad intentions

You know how some TV news reporters make that ostentatious show of pronouncing Spanish place names correctly? Like, San Hhhwan, Pwairto Reeko? I get it, good intentions, but I think it's silly. Would they make the effort to pronounce Paris as Pah-ree, or Berlin as Bear-lean? No.

But from now on, I'm going to pronounce Sonia Sotomayor's name like a Boricua. Because I believe that every time I do, Pat Buchanan bleeds a little.