Is "pundint" the new "nukular"?

[Wetzelbill]

Is "pundint" the new "nukular"?

The GOP has added another dazzling word to it's odd vernacular.

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Have any of you noticed how often both Sarah Palin and her lesser known running mate John McCain have been saying "pundint" instead of "pundit"?

Now I'm a hick from Montana and I fully confess to saying "nukular" probably more often than I say "nuclear" but this is ridiculous. It seems knowing how to talk has become a lost art these days.

I have come to terms with my own battles with "nukular." But Mercka, I will not stand fer the butcher of the word "Pundit" by all those folks down in Warshington DC.

So yeah, it's "pundit" not "pundint."

Get a brain, moran!


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[Lancer]

1. "Pundint" drives me nuts, too, like "Democrat" as an adjective. Grrrr

[Wetzelbill]

2. I don't mind a little English butchering, I do it myself

But some words are easy to do it with, like saying "fer" instead of "for" or from time to time leaving a "g" off the end of a verb. (leavin')

I can see it too if you are in an informal setting, nobody talks in public the way they do when they are sitting around watching football with their friends, right?

But some words completely stand out because you almost have to be a complete idiot to mangle it. Like "Pundint." That's just trying to screw a word up, I think. You pretty much had to teach yourself to say it wrong. And not only that, but they say it at big events, speeches and in interviews. Ugh!

[tilsammans]

3. Ick! Agree. Add to that . . .

. . . the way Palin says "Ameercans."

:puke:

[Wetzelbill]

4. oh no! That's another good... well, bad one.

[Jacobin]

5. grates on my nerves

[sendero]

6. I've recently noticed that also..

.. but I was listening to a lefty station when I heard it.

Don't people read any more? There's clearly no N there.

[Wetzelbill]

7. yeah I don't know

but that's one of those words where it's clear cut how to pronounce it and their is no informal or "lazy" way to say it. Mispronouncing it like that is bizarre.

[SoCalDem]

8. up there with Chris Matthews' "penn-siv-ania" and

Anderson Cooper's "imporDant" &
Bob Woodward's "RUHpordur"

[SmokingJacket]

11. People who are from Pennsylvania often pronounce it that way.

For some reason!

A silent "l" -- what gives?

[Igel]

12. My mother insists on pronouncing "salmon"

without the silent l.

Drives me bonkers. Spelling pronunciations often do (even though it took me years to stop pronouncing the written t in 'often').

[laundry_queen]

21. oh, AC's 'impordent' drives me nuts!

To be fair though I did hear Michelle Obama say pundint once. I think she had a cold though. I did notice McCain said it numerous times the other day. Annoying.

[SoCalDem]

24. and how he says "Bridden", instead of Britain..

You'd think that someone so well educated and so wealthy could have afforded speech therapy :)

[madokie]

9. It seems knowing how to talk has become a lost art these days.

Yes to those who have nothing of worth to say it does.

[MrsBrady]

10. America

since education has been underfunded for so long...

stupid is now acceptable.

[Igel]

13. Mispronouncing "tenet" has been widespread for a long time.

It's perseverative nasalization. Same kind of thing that made the 'b' at the end of 'comb' and 'dumb' disappear in pronunciation. Anticipitory nasalization, I think, is more common.

English vowels next to nasal consonants are nasalized. Obligatorily, before the consonant; usually for some time after the consonant. How much depends on the dialect involved, speech tempo, register, and, to some extent, speaker variation. Unstressed vowels being shorter, the time for discontinuing nasalization is shorter, so that's where you get nasalization going all the way to the coda consonant. (And, as any look at Polish, or even French, will tell you, that means you start perceiving a nasal consonant made at the same place of articulation as the first post-vowel consonant. "Pundit" --> "pundint", "tenent" --> "tenent".)

Apparently that's not (language) change that we can believe in. Yet, language change happens, in spite of the best efforts of (linguistic) conservatives to maintain the status quo and the use of traditional (speech) standards to serve as a gatekeeper.

Hindi, whence "pundit" comes, has a nasal/non-nasal contrast for vowels. English doesn't.

[canetoad]

14. I thought I heard her say that

but couldn't be bothered to check. Glad I didn't hear wrong.

[ljm2002]

15. The first time I heard the word "pundint"...

...was from none other than OJ Simpson during his notorious trial for murder.

So they're in good -- no, not good, but *appropriate* company.

[JBoy]

16. Supposably.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

17. It's what happens when you git involved in Warshington politics.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

18. Dupe

[Aristus]

19. This is jut one of the 6 x 10/23rd power reasons why I want an intelligent person for President.

Someone who knows the language, and understands the proper ways of its usage. Right-wingers treat the English language the way frat boys treat the fraternity house: they claim to love it, and then they piss on the stairs.

Please God! A man who actually speaks correct English for President!

[codjh9]

20. Wow - I hadn't even heard 'pundint'. n/t

[MineralMan]

22. Pundint Drives Me Nuts...

Along with nucular, relator, jewlery, and most of all "Presentunitedstates."

Buncha morons!

[dorkulon]

23. I thought I was the only one that can't stand that!

I can't figure out why people need to put an "n" in there. Also, what the hell is up with "acrost" in stead of "across"?

[Soylent Brice]

25. they say that frequent incorrect annunciation

is being tied with ADD/ADHD and other learning diabilities.

could explain the short attention span of those out in media/zombie land. why not the ones they blindly worship too?