How come Joe Kim can't pronounce Alzheimers ?
02-05-2014 at 01:31 PM
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How come Joe Kim can't pronounce Alzheimers ?
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02-05-2014 at 01:54 PM
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Joe Kim can't pronounce Alzheimer's? Yeah, well you know, that's like, uh, your opinion man.
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02-05-2014 at 02:00 PM
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Who cares.. focus on psych instead!!
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02-05-2014 at 03:09 PM
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i feel like kim messes stuff up on purpose in his psych modules. even thing such as grammar, the time, and other stuff is always incorrect or different from what he is saying. or he has been to lazy to change his modules over the past few years.
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02-05-2014 at 03:13 PM
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I'm sorry, but why is this even a threat? Why does this matter?
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02-05-2014 at 03:17 PM
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I'm sorry, but why is this even a threat? Why does this matter?
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They're trying to make an external attribution for their failure in 1x03 or 1xx3
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02-05-2014 at 03:40 PM
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why does it matter? people have accents
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02-05-2014 at 04:46 PM
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02-05-2014 at 04:47 PM
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02-05-2014 at 05:06 PM
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02-05-2014 at 05:56 PM
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?? People mispronounce words all the time. It's not the end of the world if he mispronounces a word. :/ I don't understand why it bothers you so much. People mispronounce "february" and "library" all the time and I don't lose sleep over it, as annoying as it is.
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He sounds ridiculous saying ALTheimers. . The fact that no one bothers to tell him raises questions.
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That maybe they've corrected him before and feel mean about doing it again? Or that it's just polite to leave someone be when they make a mispronunciation? Or that -GASP- maybe it's not a huge deal when someone mispronounces a word, especially if they speak english as a second language? |
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02-05-2014 at 06:04 PM
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I drank the kool aid - and now I know it is pronounced ALT heimer's. I was wrong. Joe Kim was right.
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02-05-2014 at 06:11 PM
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ESL is not even considered a politically correct term, and you can clarify with Joe Kim himself but he is only ESL by the loosest of definitions.
He is 1st generation Canadian and was educated exclusively in Canada and the US (San Francisco.)
He learned English as a toddler.
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If you grow up in a household where another language is also spoken, it's possible to pick up problems with pronunciation (from hearing your parents mispronounce things as well). I have a friend who was born in Canada and he has an accent on his English as if he learned it as a second language (his family is from Vietnam). And, he too was exclusively educated here.
Nonetheless, that's not the point. The point is that Dr. Kim's mispronunciation of "Alzheimers" isn't some huge conspiracy or issue. Making it out to be one is a waste of time. |
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02-05-2014 at 06:18 PM
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Originally Posted by chelseamrae
English is not graphophonemically consistent, but I don't see how someone adds a T sound and drops the Z sound.
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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pizza#Pronunciation
/ˈpiːtsə/
If you're unfamiliar with IPA, that 't' is pronouced like a 't', and not a 'z'.
THERE IS NO 'T' IN PIZZA WHY IS THE GENERALLY ACCEPTABLE PRONUNCIATION WITHOUT A Z???? you may ask.
Possibly because the word is not of English origins. [source: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pizza#Etymology]
So the reason Dr Kim might have mispronounced 'Alzheimer's' is far from being due to a neurological disorder. More like a linguistic mix up.
(I'd be more concerned if someone called their food 'pee-za'. Does not sound appetizing.)
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02-05-2014 at 06:19 PM
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