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Two things for you this morning.
1) It constantly surprises me how little effort many journalists put into sounding like they know what they are talking about. Even on NPR and BBC world (the only news I watch/listen to these days), I frequently have to cringe at the butchering of the names of people and places. Is Ashkelon that hard to pronounce? Or the name of the Muslim Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. It seems to me that if a journalist properly researched a report, he would have come across enough people who knew how to properly pronounce the names of the people/places involved, and should be able to properly pronounce it. Ok, I'm done rambling.
2) Jet Blue ad: "if you're a person, Jet Blue is the airline for you!"
Brilliant.
1) It constantly surprises me how little effort many journalists put into sounding like they know what they are talking about. Even on NPR and BBC world (the only news I watch/listen to these days), I frequently have to cringe at the butchering of the names of people and places. Is Ashkelon that hard to pronounce? Or the name of the Muslim Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. It seems to me that if a journalist properly researched a report, he would have come across enough people who knew how to properly pronounce the names of the people/places involved, and should be able to properly pronounce it. Ok, I'm done rambling.
2) Jet Blue ad: "if you're a person, Jet Blue is the airline for you!"
Brilliant.
