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09-11-2006, 07:33 PM
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[ QUOTE ] Check out part 3. The governer of Iowa comments on our 20 hour clock. [/ QUOTE ] What do you expect? I-O-W-A [/ QUOTE ] wtf is with all the ripping on Iowa latly, if you want ignorance you have to look further south then Iowa. Iowa's education system is actualy WAY better then the USA as a hole, Iowa is ranked 3rd for act scores and #1 on sat scores. also about our gov, I'm guessing he just went along with the joke, or else they took it out of context. 
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#42
09-11-2006, 07:33 PM
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[ QUOTE ] OP, I can sorta see your point about the provinces, but why on earth would we concern ourselves with the pronounciation of Regina? Of what importance is it? When would it ever come up? I'm not even sure I pronounce Helena, MT correctly, never mind Canada. [/ QUOTE ] Because Helena is a hick town in Montana, while Regina is the capital of a province. It would be like an announcer on a Canadian poker show saying a player was from Tuckson, Arizona or San Josie, California. [/ QUOTE ] Provinces aren't important. What about that do you not get.
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#43
09-11-2006, 07:33 PM
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So I'm curious why I know how to pronounce Tucson properly, while Lon McEachern or any of a number of people editing the video or producing the program for ESPN didn't know how to pronounce Regina. [/ QUOTE ] too bad you can't spell tuscon properly also, maybe espn didn't want to pronounce regina like vagina with an r seriously though, all through high school and before that i learned a ton of geography in europe and the us, but they didn't teach a thing about, say, mexico or canada weird
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#44
09-11-2006, 07:36 PM
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Re: Help Me Understand
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[ QUOTE ] So I'm curious why I know how to pronounce Tucson properly, while Lon McEachern or any of a number of people editing the video or producing the program for ESPN didn't know how to pronounce Regina. [/ QUOTE ] too bad you can't spell tuscon properly http://www.tucsonaz.gov/index.php also, maybe espn didn't want to pronounce regina like vagina with an r seriously though, all through high school and before that i learned a ton of geography in europe and the us, but they didn't teach a thing about, say, mexico or canada weird [/ QUOTE ]
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#45
09-11-2006, 07:38 PM
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well, i'm embarrassed
how could i have been reading it as tuscon all this time?
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#47
09-11-2006, 07:40 PM
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[ QUOTE ] I'm sure I could pick out many names from the US that you can't say correctly either, it proves nothing other then that everyone thinks they're more important then they really are. [/ QUOTE ] I'll guarantee you if it's a State capital I could pronounce it. [/ QUOTE ] Fine, how do you say New Orleans (I know, not the capital) if you say it New Or - leans (three distinct syllables) as I hear the stupid newscasters/ sports guys say it, you're wrong. My wife is from down there and no one says it that way. It's one world :na'owlins. this drives me nuts.
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#50
09-11-2006, 07:43 PM
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Re: Help Me Understand
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I'm sure I could pick out many names from the US that you can't say correctly either, it proves nothing other then that everyone thinks they're more important then they really are. [/ QUOTE ] I'll guarantee you if it's a State capital I could pronounce it. [/ QUOTE ] Fine, how do you say New Orleans (I know, not the capital) if you say it New Or - leans (three distinct syllables) as I hear the stupid newscasters/ sports guys say it, you're wrong. My wife is from down there and no one says it that way. It's one world :na'owlins. this drives me nuts. [/ QUOTE ] lololololol sorry but no one brought up outside of LA is ever going to pronounced it na'owlins unless their wife pulls a fast one on them.
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