Why these grad ceremony names were mispronounced
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- Опубликовано: 9 май 2024
- Videos of names being mispronounced at this #graduation ceremony for Thomas Jefferson University’s nursing school have been viewed tens of millions of times. Here’s what the school says happened - and why reading a phonetic spelling may have sounded like this.
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still horrible how a university failed so badly at something so easy
Only one problem: the phonetic pronunciations were after the actual spelling of the student's real name, so the problem still stands that the announcer cannot read well enough to be in that position.
Why would you even look to the phonetic spelling of Elizabeth
Thomas. It’s literally the first name of the college!
No. The card had the graduates' name and pronunciation under it. A normal person would just read the name as usual, unless it was some foreign, hard to pronounce name. This lady did this on purpose
Normal person,,,doesnt exist in our 🤡🌎
Exactly! I'm a public reader, and we use knowledge with common sense. The professional also reviews before opening her mouth, does not read cold. This could have been prevented.
All is forgivable is English was not her first language. But that doesn't seem to be the case. If English is her language THEN WHY would a faculty member need "phonetic" pronunciations of common American names in the first place???? This HAS to be some sort of joke.
Except it shows she doesn't know how to read phonetically. SAIR and she pronounced it SAI-EAR. Then she pronounced JIN as JUN.
She sounds like an English-speaker and should (yes, I said _should_) have caught herself. I'm a public reader, and we use knowledge with common sense. The professional also reviews before opening her mouth, does not read cold or rely on "cards." This was so botched, there must be more to this story.
EXACTLY! All is forgivable is English was not her first language. But that doesn't seem to be the case. If English is her language THEN WHY would a faculty member need "phonetic" pronunciations of common American names in the first place???? This HAS to be some sort of joke.
What is this, the school's first graduation ever? You have to intentionally try to screw that up.
honestly i need to see a pic of the cards she was actually reading from because it still doesnt make sense. dont you normally put phonetic spelling directly after the normal spelling??
Yes, that's how the cards were, with the normal spelling then the phonetic one. Sarah Brennan showed the media a picture of her card. You can see it in the Washington Post article whose headline starts "Mispronunciations spoil graduation...". You'll see that the normal spelling is where the eye first goes, because it's printed so darkly, as opposed to the phonetic one.
Why would they do phonetic spellings instead of just reading the name unless it’s not a basic Americanized name like “Thomas”? And was the actual name not listed beside the phonetic spelling?
It's still not an excuse. I would stop the proceeding immediately. How can you be that unaware? 😊
No, this was 1000% intentional. There is no way on this earth she didn’t know how to pronounce “Thomas”. I can’t imagine what kind of vendetta she has against those students, or maybe she was genuinely just so nervous she couldn’t function
Some DEI hire went rogue and wanted payback...
Just say the hard r, there would be more dignity in it
Wtf are you talking about
Exactly. Wanted to help pronounce the … made up names people give their children from one demo, so, make a point in doing it to all the normal names, too. For equality.
I can't assume good intent towards speaker. She meant to prove a point. She's too flippant in her apology.
You know why this is BS? Because that person would have stopped reading and asked what do you have written down here because this doesn't make sense.
Guess you dont need to be able to read to work at a college
The way she was pronouncing stuff I'm surprised she didn't raise the dead. "You must not read from the book!!"
This was done intentionally to white kids or she was a DEI hire, perhaps both.
Why would the announcer even have to have the names spelled phonetically? Can she not read properly?
EXACTLY! All is forgivable is English was not her first language. But that doesn't seem to be the case. If English is her language THEN WHY would a faculty member need "phonetic" pronunciations of common American names in the first place???? This HAS to be some sort of joke.
Tomomay?
DEI hire
absolutely.
Just say the hard R, it’s what we all hear.
That’s white a women saying these words
Whoever is responsible ruined there graduation
The names were on top of the phonetic spelling!
Here's the thing- the proper names WERE written at the top of the cards, in bold. It wasn't just the phonetics. One of the students, Sarah Brennan, took a picture of her name card and showed it to the media- the WaPo article about the incident is one that shows it. Sarah told the WaPo that she was surprised at how long the mispronunciations went on- she said she was in the second row and had expected it to have been solved by the time it got to her.
The video was not cut in any way and she DID mess them up in the order it was shown. Someone gave you false information and even people who are the ones FROM the graduation confirmed it.
Tah-Mooh-May equals Thomas in NO pronunciation. 😂
They should've only reverted to using phonetic spellings if they were absolutely sure they couldn't pronounce the names. Also, the presenter should've went through the list of names beforehand with a members of the school staff. They could've included phonetic spellings in small print only for the names the presenter might would mispronounce.
“should have GONE”
She would mis-pronounce DEI
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
It's a Key and Peele reference. Balakay....D-nice...A-A-Ron...
All is forgivable if English was not her first language. But that doesn't seem to be the case. She clearly has an East Coast accent. If English is her language THEN WHY would a faculty member need "phonetic" pronunciations of common American names in the first place???? This HAS to be some sort of joke.
DEI
How?
@@offtop7498most people might need help pronouncing “djirantelago” but not “Elizabeth”. So, let’s put pronunciation on basic names, too, for equality.
@@hesatoolin the video he shows the phonetic pronunciation which she clearly read directly from I don’t see the correlation to what you are claiming
Plato, Verata, Nicto!.......if you didn't get the reference it's the necronomicon army of darkness movie
Dude. Klaatu barada nikto.
Doesnt satisfy everyone now. Like is this professional actually rtrd'd
This is pathetic.. FYI this is why Trump gets elected
You really think they are not going to successfully steal the election again?
It’s horrible 😢
Black women elected Trump
So why were the mispronounced names ONLY white names??
Hooked on Ebonics
Virginia prob was written as vu jin yia something like that and she read the y as j so we got vu jin ju 😊
Someone did that to her on purpose
Does anyone have a link to the ceremony. I needs a laugh 😉😂🤣😂😉🤣🤣😂🤣
Dude, why there's AsmongoldTV in the name of your URL channel? lol
I still think this shouldn't have happened. If she couldn't read phonetic spellings then why wasn't there an assistant who can to help her? I hope they'll put 2 or 3 spelling systems in the future name cards. Those poor graduates.
Publicity stunt. It now puts them on the map. I never even heard of this school before until this viral video.
Honestly if I were graduating I’d find this a lot more fun
Honestly this could've been avoided if they
- Had the names in their written spellings on the cards alongside the phonetic spelling
- Used a well-established "readable" phonetic standard such as Arpabet instead of... Whatever Google was using
- Train the speaker beforehand in how to read Arpabet (it only takes about an hour to learn)
Let's take that name again, Sarah Virginia Brennan.
In Arpabet, this would have broken down into:
[s ey r ah] [v er j ih n y ah] [b r eh n ih n]
Pair that with the name written on the card in plain English and it's much more intuitive.
So what....you still got your diploma
Lmao not all the yt people in the comments being pressed at someone daring to mispronounce their name. Welcome to the lives of all the people with fOrEiGn HaRd To PrOnOuNcE nAmEs. Y’all put in no effort whatsoever, about time you get a taste of your own medicine.
Calm down Laqauneisha, foreign names aren't hard to pronounce, it's the ghetto made-up names that don't follow any logic or reason in anyone's language that are hard to pronounce.
well maybe those are american names in america? i fail to see the logic here
Nice racist generalisation
You missed the point. There are a lot of “foreign names” that are incredibly easy to pronounce if you just sound it out phonetically. But y’all just see that it’s not something you’ve seen before and act like you can’t read all of a sudden.
@@JonasBrosGirl I don't know who you mean by y'all?!? I don't know who hurt you but I'll read your name to you if it makes you feel better. 😂 I've got a Samoan name, at first glance it looks weird to most, but when you give the speaker the correct phonetics it just rolls off the tongue.. Maybe the problem is you. If you want "y'all" to pronounce your name correctly, make sure the "y'all" understand the annunciation.