Friday, November 07, 2014

Sigh

Alex, as we all know, can't pronounce Russian. Neither can the Clue Crew, apparently. This one just said "Mee-kayl Gorbachev".

Mee-kayl. NO. Just no. It's Me-kheye-EEL GarbaCHOHFF  [mʲɪxɐˈil ɡərbɐˈt͡ɕɵf] .

I'm glad they didn't try pronouncing the Russian for "Trust but verify". Why can't Jeopardy! look up how to pronounce foreign words?

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2 Comments:

At 8:25 PM, November 07, 2014 Anonymous Anonymous had this to say...

Given where he's from, would you have accepted something along the lines of [ɦərbɐˈt͡ɕɵw]?

 
At 1:08 PM, November 11, 2014 Blogger The Ridger, FCD had this to say...

That would be acceptable - not Russian, of course, but okay. Thing is, he claims to speak Russian. And he doesn't.

 

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