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Dear The West Wing S4 -
WAH SAM WAH OH SAM I LOVE YOU PLEASE COME BACK FROM ORANGE COUNTY All right, I'm sold on Will Bailey. Well played.
However, I feel you should know that every time someone mentions Bartlet's alma mater and pronounces it NOTER DAYME, I feel like strangling them. Surely he could have attended a university that does not require the Americanised slaughtering of the French language? (Do not take this as any kind of oblique approval of Jean-Paul. Jean-Paul is an asshat.)
CJ continues the most awesome person to ever exist. Josh and Donna are increasingly adorable.
With my continuing love &c.
- Fahye
~
Today I discovered worn-through holes in both my favourite pair of pyjama pants and my beloved black moleskin trousers :( And I just spent a lot of money on these shoes (in black), a pair of gorgeous grey trousers with tiny blue pinstripes, and a black cardigan-jacket-thing. Oh Portmans <333 I may not have any kind of glamourous executive job, but at least I can buy your clothes and pretend that I do.
I also revamped my user info. Now with less third-person POV and even more snark!
However, I feel you should know that every time someone mentions Bartlet's alma mater and pronounces it NOTER DAYME, I feel like strangling them. Surely he could have attended a university that does not require the Americanised slaughtering of the French language? (Do not take this as any kind of oblique approval of Jean-Paul. Jean-Paul is an asshat.)
CJ continues the most awesome person to ever exist. Josh and Donna are increasingly adorable.
With my continuing love &c.
- Fahye
~
Today I discovered worn-through holes in both my favourite pair of pyjama pants and my beloved black moleskin trousers :( And I just spent a lot of money on these shoes (in black), a pair of gorgeous grey trousers with tiny blue pinstripes, and a black cardigan-jacket-thing. Oh Portmans <333 I may not have any kind of glamourous executive job, but at least I can buy your clothes and pretend that I do.
I also revamped my user info. Now with less third-person POV and even more snark!
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Tell me when you get there.
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It wasn't ever the same without him. *shakes fist at Rob Lowe*
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Even as a former French major, I cannot countenance that pronunciation as anything but NOTER DAYME.
It is a Hoosier thing, and we love it. Matter of state and national pride to misguidedly fuck up them foreign name words and I love that it happens. It's charming.
Come visit us in MY-lun (Milan), BRAH-zuhl (Brazil), and Ver-SAILS (Versailles), Indiana any time.
:D
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I realise that it's a charmingly wacky American thingamer, I just...AUGH...the sound of things is very important! You don't mispronounce things like savoir faire or avant garde, do you?
Do you?
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It's cultural. These are place names which were altered from their usual pronunciations by people a long time ago who didn't understand phonetics. They no longer have anything but spelling to do with the places and cultures they came from; they are something else, and we like them.
It is nothing whatsoever like mispronouncing a foreign language, and I have to confess some annoyance that you would ask me if I do that when it is not the same thing at all. I have a huge respect for language and French in particular -- but these words are historically anglicized and that is different.
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