Author Topic: You Say Namibia, I say Nambia  (Read 2640 times)

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You Say Namibia, I say Nambia
« on: September 21, 2017, 10:31:16 AM »
Another CNN breaking story on Trump.  ;/

I'm biased towards Trump, because funny thing is, I know it's Namibia, but I actually make fun of myself a lot because whenever I read it, or when I say it (not that it comes up in conversations a lot) half the time I end up reading it as, or saying "Nambia" too. Just how my brain (mis)processes it.

It ought to be pretty obvious that Trump just mispronounced Namibia, but CNN had to list "...all the other nations he could have been referring to". Again,  ;/

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/09/21/africa/trump-nambia-un-africa-trnd/index.html

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Re: You Say Namibia, I say Nambia
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2017, 11:37:15 AM »
He might have meant Narnia.
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Re: You Say Namibia, I say Nambia
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2017, 11:54:40 AM »
Nuke-yuh-lur
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Re: You Say Namibia, I say Nambia
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2017, 11:54:56 AM »
'Nanner puddin'?

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Re: You Say Namibia, I say Nambia
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2017, 02:03:45 PM »
I still always say "leye`-buh-rerry" as a perverse hang over from my mother correcting me all the time.

Same thing with "Feb-you-ary."

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Re: You Say Namibia, I say Nambia
« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2017, 03:12:00 PM »
I don't even bother to try on that one, which is an issue since that's where the Cheetah Conservation group started with their Anatolian Shepherd program.
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Re: You Say Namibia, I say Nambia
« Reply #6 on: September 21, 2017, 03:51:11 PM »
Didn't we fight a war in Viet Namibia?
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Re: You Say Namibia, I say Nambia
« Reply #7 on: September 21, 2017, 04:10:23 PM »
Didn't we fight a war in Viet Namibia?

No, that was Namibiastan.
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Re: You Say Namibia, I say Nambia
« Reply #8 on: September 21, 2017, 07:29:28 PM »
Still doesn't hold a candle to the previous POTUS pronouncing Corps as corpse. 
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Re: You Say Namibia, I say Nambia
« Reply #9 on: September 22, 2017, 12:17:11 AM »
You Say Namibia, I say Nambia  German Southwest Africa.... :P :P :P :P
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Re: You Say Namibia, I say Nambia
« Reply #10 on: September 22, 2017, 02:37:18 PM »
You Say Namibia, I say Nambia  German Southwest Africa.... :P :P :P :P

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Re: You Say Namibia, I say Nambia
« Reply #11 on: September 22, 2017, 07:01:38 PM »

How do you pronounce Zimbabwe? :D

Rhodesia....Although now, it Fuckedupistan
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Re: You Say Namibia, I say Nambia
« Reply #12 on: September 22, 2017, 08:14:22 PM »
I wonder if the same people trashing his pronunciation of "Namibia" are same ill-read folks that had to look up "dotard."
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Re: You Say Namibia, I say Nambia
« Reply #13 on: September 22, 2017, 08:24:04 PM »
I wonder if the same people trashing his pronunciation of "Namibia" are same ill-read folks that had to look up "dotard."

I laughed when I saw that on Twitchy. It was apparently a new word to a majority of the blue check mark geniuses. Public education these days...
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Re: You Say Namibia, I say Nambia
« Reply #14 on: September 22, 2017, 10:19:14 PM »
I laughed when I saw that on Twitchy. It was apparently a new word to a majority of the blue check mark geniuses. Public education these days...


Not a proud moment for our country, when a spox for North Korea, of all places, casually tosses out a not-terribly-obscure English word, and the whole world hears us flipping through the dictionary.
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Re: You Say Namibia, I say Nambia
« Reply #15 on: September 22, 2017, 11:11:46 PM »

Not a proud moment for our country, when a spox for North Korea, of all places, casually tosses out a not-terribly-obscure English word, and the whole world hears us flipping through the dictionary.

Not to mention that so many of the dictionary flippers were complimenting the guy who said it -- murders, torture, sex slaves and all. That people are saying positive things about the midget in relation to Trump may actually be peak TDS.
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Re: You Say Namibia, I say Nambia
« Reply #16 on: September 25, 2017, 02:03:17 PM »
Is that next door to Pambia?
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