This seems like such a bad way to handle things. My school had the Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages read out the names to minimize the chances of butchering them.
Who the fuck thought it was a brilliant idea to just hand her the phonetics without their actual name? I feel so bad for her, and it's honestly not her fault.
Don’t know about u but if I was her and saw those bullshit cards, I’d immediately leave. I’m not going to ruin the ceremony and embarrass myself. She objectively has some blame
The plan was probably for it to be a list of the names spelled normally + the phonetics, but whoever was in charge of preparing the document SOMEHOW managed to produce a list that contained only the phonetics, which means that they took it all the way from whatever office it was printed from to the stage without a single person taking one moment to glance at it and make sure everything was in order. Truly incredible.
@@RealCoolstriker64sometimes autocorrect changes words when you don’t want it to and sometimes it just says “fuck it, idk wtf you are trying to spell” even though I think it should be obvious 😂
My college had a great system. Right before walking the stage, you would say your name into a closed loop mic that only the presenter could hear. He would then immediately repeat what you said into the mic for the auditorium to hear as you walked onto the stage. This eliminated issues with reading the names or memorizing anything. You could also give him preferred names and middle names if you wanted.
Wow. Makes me appreciate the system my college used. This isn’t even the best practice. Best practice as my uni did is to have all students record their name pronunciation weeks beforehand and the announcer prerecords the names. It’s phonetic but you are literally giving them the pronunciation of your name and spelling online while also saying a voice clip of it yourself. Then as you go up you just scan a barcode and the recording plays as you walk across. All automatic, no live announced needed necessarily. Though I recall there being one I imagine as a backup and for the few people who didn’t do this process. But it really should’ve been prerecorded even if it’s a small college. I’m 90% sure we could check how their recording sounded too online, so if it don’t sound right you can tell them. 😂
@@Stinger913 I actually prefer the way my school did it. I didnt have to go through the trouble of getting my name recorded correctly during finals. Plus, the commencement gowns had nowhere to hold anything, including a phone or printed barcode. Putting something into my pockets underneath wasnt a quick or graceful process, and many female classmates didnt have any pockets at all. During the stage walk, you used both hands to hold the diploma and shake hands with the dean. It is also simpler technologically, which can be less confusing overall
This has to have felt like some kind of nightmare for this woman. I can't imagine being given a card with phonetic spelling without foreknowledge. What a blunder, man.
I graduated last year and they forgot my diploma. Literally. They were calling up each graduate for English philology (my major) and i was waiting for my name and suddenly they were like "and now Spanish philology ". Luckily our professor was handing them out and she saw how confused I was and came to me. She got pissed, went downstairs for a bit and came back with my diploma. I tend to say that they left the best for last. ✨️✨️
I've got a crazier story from when I graduated community college last year: We had a disabled guy on a wheelchair who was told during the practice ceremony that he would have a certified helper escort him up to the podium on graduation day. Well, on graduation day, that guy is nowhere to be found, so when they call up his name, there is an awkward silence until someone finally escorts the poor man himself, and the crowd solemnly claps.
I tried the opposite. i dont remember why, but i thought i wouldnt get a diploma thing cause of some choice i made, so iwas just watching the rest of it, and suddenly my name got called really fucking strange times.
For those that don’t know. The IPA transcription of Thomas looks like /tɔməs/ Edit: I didn’t realize they meant they broke it down by syllable pronunciation not phonetic transcriptions, welcome to IPA tho
While confusing for people who've never seen all of the IPA characters, I'm dumbfounded how she got some of these pronounciations. Tomamay? How does tɔməs become tomamay?
@@coleeckert6182try reading that live in front of a tonne of people having never seen half those characters before, you’d probably stutter a bunch too. She didn’t say Tomamay, she said Tom-mu-mes, because when she got to the latter half and was uncertain, so she tried again. The mu bit is her first attempt, mes is her second. Alternatively, based off how she was pronouncing the other names, it sounds like they weren’t spaced properly. Thomas Micheal would have been written out something lile to-mɑs-mɪ-xaɛl, which could fairly easily be read to sound like to-mu-may since you have literally nothing to go off
The actual name was on the cards. The phonetics were not IPA that requires people to learn it first and it was just spelled in plain English like SAIR-uh vuhr-JIHN-yuh BREH-nuhn. The picture of the card can be found in the article by washington post's article.
The actual name was on the cards. The phonetics were not IPA that requires people to learn it first and it was just spelled in plain English like SAIR-uh vuhr-JIHN-yuh BREH-nuhn. The picture of the card can be found in the article by washington post's article.
@@meowateyourchips7417 That was a lie lol, there were ONLY the names in phonetics. Again, that was a spread lie, don't know why ppl keep spreading it.
The fact that she had the phonetic spelling AND the regular spelling is what gets me. A graduate from the school posted a picture of it and it has both spellings. You would of thought she would of started reading the regular spelling but I guess not lmao
I’d be fine since I have an iq more than 5. How do you mess up Thomas and Sarah even in phonetics it’s easy. Especially for someone who’s supposed to be a professor. Embarrassing.
@@nebulisnoobis102 …have you seen the cards? They did not use IPA. Sarah was simply “Sare-uh” and things like that. Don’t defend this tool especially since the normal name was present above in bold.
She seems to be (sometimes) combining the first name with the first syllable of the next name. Hence, Marissa Lynn = Marisilin Allison Nicole = Allisuna Cole Also seems like the card sometimes represents the schwa as a u or uh, which she then pronounces 'oo' So we get Allison Nicole = Allisoona Cole (not sure why the 'Ni' becomes 'na'... maybe the Ni is represented as 'Nacole') Stephanie = Stephoonie Jessica = Jessikoo Thomas = Ta moo may (although I don't know why it didn't end up as Tamoos)
Yeahhh that’s the thing. Even with phonetics being confusing, there’s just no way to confuse “Thomas” especially when your university (that you work at) is named after a President named Thomas.
My college graduation memory: In a field house where the A/C couldn’t keep up with the heat and amount of people. Some dude 15 mins into the 2-3 hour ceremony starts letting it rip and gassing the whole section. People playing detective trying to figure out who the hell is farting based on dissipation.
I was so confused how she was struggling so much. I then looked up what phonetic spelling was. I myself would struggle 100x more pronouncing a name I know in phonetics than a name I’ve never seen just spelled out.
@meowateyourchips7417 yea, but honestly that was a bad choice. If i was in charge i would never give phonetics underneath classic English names, depending on the person that would end up confusing people. I remember in my high school our teacher would only write phonetics for uncommon American names or foreign names. I dont know who thought giving her the name + phonetics of every single name was a good idea. Since usually if i see phonetics under a name i am assuming its not a commonly pronounced name.
They gave her a card that unnecessarily phoneticized the names. So instead of Thomas it was literally written as “ˈtɒməs” and instead of Marissa it was “ /məˈrɪsə/“. Borderline gibberish if you don’t have very specific education.
I was once the escort at a quinceanera, and when the announcer called me up to start the dance ceremony he called me "Carmen". Still plagues me to this day.
Above the phonetic spelling is the actual name in big bold letters they shared screenshots. She knew what it was she was reading phonetics for 10 mins before realizing there’s no set up
She actually did summon a demon onto stage. Luckily, it was quickly ushered out before it could do damage so that the next graduate could be presented.
My university had a very good system for this. The presenter had the list of names ahead of time and had marked evey one she was not 100% confident in. If your name got marked you were directed to go see the presenter at a table in the corner. You were also encouraged to go talk to the presenter if you had what may look like a normal name but was pronounced differently. The presenter herself had you pronounce your name to her several times, she would take notes and then one of the people helping her would record a clip of you saying it. My guess is, if the presenter's notes were not enough to jog her memory on how to pronounce it, there was someone right beside her to queue up the recording for her to give a quick listen. All in all it was very well thought out and precisely executed. One of the few things my university actually did right.
At my highschool, well known students were the ones who read your name and you could choose one of 3. You’d hand them a name card with how your names spelled, and then below how you’d pronounce. If they didn’t know for sure once you handed it over they’d ask just to make sure. Thought that worked pretty good but idk how well that would work in larger class settings (even though we were a class of 250 it’s much larger for college)
I read 1/2 of that and that's just basic, common sense and planning. This is what every human being with an IQ of at least 90 should be able to do without being told. I'm not surprised this college didn't do that because colleges are getting dumber. This staff probably has less intelligence than a class of seventh graders because even they could have executed this better.
The issue is the phonetic list probably didn't distinguish the end of one name and the beginning of a middle or surname. Which is why they was added syllables at the end of the name.
There should have been spaces, but they said in their post that they had errors with the list on top of only having thr phonetic names instead of both. It seems like the phonetics were the ONLY thing up there on top of errors with them. But really the dean/director or anyone should have paused the ceremony and just had the students whisper their name to someone or hand out papers to write them instead of letting the ceremony keep going like that.
@@Cotif11 It was probably written TAH-muhs MY… which getting tahmoomay from isn’t like… crazy? I think she also thought the capitalized sounds were the word breaks, rather than going by dashes
When I graduated highschool I was sick at the time but I was powering through it (pre covid times obvi) but someone was giving a speech and we had to stand for it for whatever reason and I nearly passed out I ended up laying on the cool pavement back stage and then I got in a wheelchair and shoehorned on stage and got the wrong diploma. I'll never forget it at least
Weird, i remember my university 11 years ago had this shit down, we went in the week before and wrote our stuff down phonetically, and it all worked out, idk what new system of phonetics they decided to use here.
Above the phonetic spelling is the actual name in big bold letters they shared screenshots. She knew what it was she was reading phonetics for 10 mins before realizing…
Here’s the thing tho. Phonetic spelling is important and my graduation had all the English professors spell our names phonetically if they are hard to pronounce. I have four names and my last name is hyphenated and very complicated Italian. BUT they had another English teacher VERSED in phonetic spellings do the announcing of every grad. And she came by and rehearsed them if we had had them spell it out
My university made us put our pheotic name in our submission to walk, they then showed the graduation card to us on our day of graduation that had our spelled out name and pheotic spelling to confirm they got both right. How did the school mess up that bad by not going something that easy
They did do this, exactly this, u can see the cards on Washington Posts article the announcer just chose not to read the damn non phonetic spelling for whatever reason
The pronunciation debacle at the graduation will definitely make it more memorable for everyone. It's unfortunate for the students, but at least there's a unique story to tell.
This. It's pretty hilarious to have a completely normal name be totally butchered. Like they're reading Mandarin while knowing like 3 letters in Mandarin. It is a hilarious story for later on and definitely would make it more memorable for me. I would find it hilarious to be honest, so hopefully these kids are able to laugh about it and not fixate on it negatively.
All that I got for my college graduation was a virtual one due to the 2020 pandemic. I would've taken this over the virtual one because it would've been more memorable and something to look back on fondly. I do have a bit of a complicated last name, but i don't mind if someone messed it up. I hope those college graduates have amazing careers.
6:54 As a Speech-Pathology major, I can confirm that some of these phonetics are not easy for someone who isn't experienced to read. Like in jessica for example, the whole name would be transcribed as this /dʒɛsɪkə/. How would the school expect someone without some sort of linguistics or phonology background to read these accurately and quickly? That being said, she is still adding extra sounds that are not present in the transcription and this would be my personal hell if I had to rapid fire read names like that. End rant
I don't think it was even transcribed in IPA, I remember reading that they just spelled it out like "jeh-sih-ka" or something similar. It would have 100% made things worse for me too, I have no clue how anyone could think this was a good idea
Charlie is right. They will remember this forever. During my eight grade graduation, I put my wrote my middle name on the call sheet as “Danger”, but I didn’t bother with phonetic spelling because…I live dangerously. The announcer pronounced my middle name as “Dang- er” and my family still brings it up to this day
Why would a university just expect a person couldnt read, so they hand them cards with a bunch of stupid shit written to hope a person could pronounce what they wrote?
6:43 She gets "Alisoona" because there's also no separation between names. So her middle name, Nicole, the "Ni" is blending in to the end of "Allison". That's also why she says "Cole" next, "Alisoona Cole" from "Allison Nicole".
@@rattlestormrepublic4874 not if her middle was a name with an A, her last name is Nicole. They don't usually use middle names as the last name dueing graduation
I went to this school for a semester and transferred out. I can confidently say that this video is the perfect representation about how everything at TJU went.
Imagine getting ready to read students name out loud and the paper they give you looks like this; - /dʒɑn/ - /ˈmɛri/ - /ˈmaɪkəl/ - /ˈdʒɛnɪfər/ - /dʒeɪmz/ - /ˈsɛrə/ - /ˈdeɪvɪd/ - /ˈɛməli/ - /ˈkrɪstəfər/ - /ˈdʒɛsɪkə/
Having the phonetics of the names only is like assembling a puzzle without the original picture. I feel bad for the presentor and i ridicule the school for thinking a phonetic only list was how they should have handled it.
High schoolers graduating is so unserious. In the UK you get your exam results at home from a website and you collect your certificates from the front office of your school a few months later. If you’re lucky you get a letter.
So I graduated from this college 6 years ago. We had to indicate how our name was pronounced on the forms to graduate. Plus, there's many graduations for each separate college at Jefferson, like business, etc. This wasn't new, and no other speaker has messed up badly enough to make the news. She needs to stop blaming other people.
Any Giants fans here who remember when they had that kid as a guest PA announcer who introduced Russ Davis as "Roos" Davis? I love how we collectively decided to run with it and started cheering him on with "ROOOOOOOS!!" from that point forward until he retired. 😂
That’s insane. I’ve graduated twice now and both times the announcer was given both the normal name and a phonetic spelling submitted by the student only if they felt it was necessary. For example my name ends in a short I sound, and I submitted a phonetic spelling to ensure they didn’t pronounce my name with a long I sound. This seems to be standard for all schools. What was Jefferson thinking?
I would have been so concerned as a nursing student on this stage cause the way she pronounced Thomas actually sounds so much like someone starting slurring their speech right before a massive seizure... this hole thing is unbelievable 😭😭😭😭 Ps: I'm not a nursing student I just meant it as 'if I was'
You can really tell when someone commented in the first 0.6 seconds of the video cuz they are all insulting the way she says thomas when literally charlie explains why less than 3 minutes in
Charlie didn’t look for pictures of the actual cards that are already floating around online. The actual names were indeed on the cards. The phonetics were not also IPA standard which requires a person to learn first and it was just spelled in English like SAIR-uh vuhr-JIHN-yuh BREH-nuhn. Even if only the phonetics were on the card, I personally would have been able to pronounce it somewhat correctly.
@@meowateyourchips7417 I've seen the video of the girl showing the name card for her name, the only explanation I could think of that doesn't involve supposing that the reader was a complete and utter imbecile was it's a Steve Harvey incident where there was something blocking the top part of the cards when she had them. But even then, after 3 names, she should have thought "Hold up, wait a minute, something ain't right!"
6:40 I don’t think they had spaces between first and last names. The “Allisoona” she says here was probably written with a soft u instead of an o, and she probably got the ending “na” from Nicole. With no spacing between words, there is no way to tell whether or not her name is Allison Nicole, or Allisoni Cole. I don’t think she’s trolling
I really feel bad for her. This wasn't her fault at all and I believe someone was trying to make a fool out of her. I hope the students weren't upset with her about it either.
So, according to the card I saw on The Washinton Post, she had cards with the names spelled AND phonetically....and also, the phonetics were hard to mess up if you read them the way they were on the card. Sair-uh Vuhr-jin-ya Brehn-nun and you read out...“Sigh-eer Oo-voon-jean-june Bree-nun" girl...what?!
I was in the crowd for this. My sister was graduating for nursing. Let me just say, the crowd was not quiet. It was utterly baffling how bad she was fumbling. The amount of times she had messed up just the name Elizabeth is insane! Me and many others in the crowd were periodically yelling to stop or swap with someone else. One dude yelled “get it right”, and from there it ramped up and more people joined, it was wild! Luckily, when my sister went up, someone else was reading the names. Who knew this would happen, and for such a damn big event too! Oh, and as for the phonetic spelling: my sister said that one of her professors went up to point out to her to just say the names themselves, but she kept either ignoring him or not understanding what they meant, which is where the problem arises.
@@milesmccue9388 Agreed 100%. But I'm also very prone to cringe, so this would still be excruciating to sit through on the basis of pure cringe. In fact, I have yet to see the video, because I'm even cringing over a continent away by the thought alone lmao
It's also worth noting that not only did they give her only the phonetic spelling of the names without anything else, but they also didn't tell her that they were the phonetic spellings.
Weird. People in this comments section are saying there are published pictures of the cards also having plain English on them as well. Are you certain they only had the phoenetics, or are you assuming what you've heard is true? Personaly I'm going to wait until I've seen the cards to believe either way.
My graduation for high school was so sad. Nobody was cheering for me at all, it's was dead silent for 5 seconds, and then the pity cheer came in to stop the awkward silent.
Nah that has been proven false, she had access to the names too, its diversity hire, they wanted the most ethnic person and she did as well as you would do reading names at a Nigerian graduation..
my college graduation was right after the brunt of the pandemic ended, so it had no ceremony or party, it was just a handful of people in a line taking a bunch of pictures, but I went there with 0 intention of taking pictures and honestly didn't even know there were going to be pictures, so I wore some long jhorts and a pair of dirty sneakers, and now all have to remember that day are a bunch of wackass pictures of me looking like a homeless teen runaway junkie. I *wish* they were announcing names and the person doing it called me Quandale Dingle or something, that would've made the occasion actually worth smiling about
@@FreshTillDeath56 mine had been cancelled too, they eventually decided to change the date, but by this point, it was just something to say it happened at all. like I said, I didn't expect to even take pictures, I legit thought I was just gonna pick up the diploma and leave
I’m studying for my master’s degree in linguistics and frequently come across phonetic spellings and even I’d probably have issues reading those out loud correctly immediately
In middle school, I was super involved with the spelling bee. I was one of those kids who studied for it and everything. In high school, I was an editor for a student magazine. In college, I majored in English. I still don’t know how to read phonetic spellings.
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@@timmiller1I think they chose phonetic spelling because they thought it would make it so everyone's name is pronounced with the same proficiency. They were right, I just don't think they expected to be right by mispronouncing everyone's name regardless of how common it might be.
@@timmiller1 Everyone blames White people for not being able to pronounce a name like Uvuwevewe Ogwewumbwem-Osas correctly but nobody gets mad at Japanese people for not being able to prounce "William Wallace" correctly. That's a racist double-standard.
Gotta say, that _is_ a interesting way to remember a class. Because i remember that my CTC Teacher showed us the Key&Peele skit about the "Substitute Teacher," not long before a fire drill. And during that, i would be called ALE-x.
My graduation 2 years ago was slightly different. Bad parts: I was stressed out because my zipper on the gown broke during the ceremony and I was tearing up slightly frantically trying and failing to zip it up. I for some stupid reason skipped out on the graduation party and is one of the biggest regrets of my life. Good parts: My elementary school principal was one of the people I shook the hands of and I gave the principal of my high school a big hug. I also got a hug from my crush.
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I can't believe they gave her a phonetic spelling list. Reading phonetic names quickly, back to back and on the spot would be the worst thing ever.
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I can't believe she got only a phonetic list and still went through with the assignment. Maybe should have asked for a copy of the program instead
she got the british pronunciation too
This seems like such a bad way to handle things. My school had the Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages read out the names to minimize the chances of butchering them.
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Who the fuck thought it was a brilliant idea to just hand her the phonetics without their actual name? I feel so bad for her, and it's honestly not her fault.
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I agree
Don’t know about u but if I was her and saw those bullshit cards, I’d immediately leave. I’m not going to ruin the ceremony and embarrass myself. She objectively has some blame
@@cray8onshe's just doing her job and working with what she was given. If she just walked away she'd most likely be fired
The plan was probably for it to be a list of the names spelled normally + the phonetics, but whoever was in charge of preparing the document SOMEHOW managed to produce a list that contained only the phonetics, which means that they took it all the way from whatever office it was printed from to the stage without a single person taking one moment to glance at it and make sure everything was in order. Truly incredible.
I would have literally announced it in the booth. “Apologues students, but whoever typed this list for me misspelled all your names.”
I can't tell if you're making a joke or simply don't know how to spell "apologies" correctly.
@@RayMan208clearly a typo.
@@SheriffBurrito a very ironic typo
@@RealCoolstriker64sometimes autocorrect changes words when you don’t want it to and sometimes it just says “fuck it, idk wtf you are trying to spell” even though I think it should be obvious 😂
@@KenseiAorookie mistake to be using autocorrect in the first place.
My college had a great system. Right before walking the stage, you would say your name into a closed loop mic that only the presenter could hear. He would then immediately repeat what you said into the mic for the auditorium to hear as you walked onto the stage. This eliminated issues with reading the names or memorizing anything. You could also give him preferred names and middle names if you wanted.
That's so smart!
So nobody told their name was xXxUberHaxor69xXx in the mic,
Wow. Makes me appreciate the system my college used. This isn’t even the best practice. Best practice as my uni did is to have all students record their name pronunciation weeks beforehand and the announcer prerecords the names. It’s phonetic but you are literally giving them the pronunciation of your name and spelling online while also saying a voice clip of it yourself. Then as you go up you just scan a barcode and the recording plays as you walk across. All automatic, no live announced needed necessarily. Though I recall there being one I imagine as a backup and for the few people who didn’t do this process. But it really should’ve been prerecorded even if it’s a small college. I’m 90% sure we could check how their recording sounded too online, so if it don’t sound right you can tell them. 😂
@@Stinger913 I actually prefer the way my school did it. I didnt have to go through the trouble of getting my name recorded correctly during finals. Plus, the commencement gowns had nowhere to hold anything, including a phone or printed barcode. Putting something into my pockets underneath wasnt a quick or graceful process, and many female classmates didnt have any pockets at all. During the stage walk, you used both hands to hold the diploma and shake hands with the dean. It is also simpler technologically, which can be less confusing overall
Mine did the same thing. Texas A&M University.
Never once has Thomas had his name mispronounced before until now
Hoe may! Hoe may are you here
@MalecUTTP npc
Might have gotten "Tomas" a few times, with the emphasis on the second syllable. But that's still a real name that real people have.
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It's the name of their damn school 😂😂
This has to have felt like some kind of nightmare for this woman. I can't imagine being given a card with phonetic spelling without foreknowledge. What a blunder, man.
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frfr i hate phonetics spelling
While they can be useful, goodness, not during a high-pressure situation where you need to be able to actually read the word
@@ukitkatcello6306they’re good when you have the actual name there as well as a point of reference
The cards had the actual name along with phonetics that were in plain English and not IPA.
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To be fair, most pokemon are wild pokemon :p
With a weakness to Prank Video-types
Is that some sort of shiny variation I haven’t heard about yet
Shiny zoobat 🤩
I'd drink a beer named that
I graduated last year and they forgot my diploma. Literally. They were calling up each graduate for English philology (my major) and i was waiting for my name and suddenly they were like "and now Spanish philology ". Luckily our professor was handing them out and she saw how confused I was and came to me. She got pissed, went downstairs for a bit and came back with my diploma. I tend to say that they left the best for last. ✨️✨️
I've got a crazier story from when I graduated community college last year:
We had a disabled guy on a wheelchair who was told during the practice ceremony that he would have a certified helper escort him up to the podium on graduation day.
Well, on graduation day, that guy is nowhere to be found, so when they call up his name, there is an awkward silence until someone finally escorts the poor man himself, and the crowd solemnly claps.
I tried the opposite. i dont remember why, but i thought i wouldnt get a diploma thing cause of some choice i made, so iwas just watching the rest of it, and suddenly my name got called really fucking strange times.
How did that even happen
@@danielhanna19 Human error
They forgot you. You weren't even last.
Not being able to say “Thomas” while also being at “Thomas Jefferson” is diabolical 😂
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These bots are wild bro, but yeah absolutely lmao.
Many people (like myself) like to read off the names' pronunciations through their normal spelling. Not everyone can read phonetic spelling.
@@moze_-ngl the first one almost got me, I’m ashamed to admit
Beat me to it
This is literally that key and Peele bit
Holy shit you’re right 😂😂 daquandafadus the third
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These replies are so horrible oh my god
@@tusk.fish09 I only see bots in Charlie's comments for some reason
"Where do you work?"
"I work at TA MU MAY - JAY FA FUSO University"
😂 😂😂
The most underated commet. Super honest.
She read that shit like she was trying to say a legend of Zelda shrine out loud
Tah Mu May Shrine 😂
Tbf Zelda shrines are pretty easy
Lakna rokee
Ha damahar
Oman au
Ta’loh naeg
All pretty easy if you think for 1 second
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Teh long neck
Nailed it!
Lmao, why is that so accurate
For those that don’t know. The IPA transcription of Thomas looks like /tɔməs/
Edit: I didn’t realize they meant they broke it down by syllable pronunciation not phonetic transcriptions, welcome to IPA tho
While confusing for people who've never seen all of the IPA characters, I'm dumbfounded how she got some of these pronounciations. Tomamay? How does tɔməs become tomamay?
@@coleeckert6182she was stuttering
@@coleeckert6182try reading that live in front of a tonne of people having never seen half those characters before, you’d probably stutter a bunch too.
She didn’t say Tomamay, she said Tom-mu-mes, because when she got to the latter half and was uncertain, so she tried again. The mu bit is her first attempt, mes is her second.
Alternatively, based off how she was pronouncing the other names, it sounds like they weren’t spaced properly. Thomas Micheal would have been written out something lile to-mɑs-mɪ-xaɛl, which could fairly easily be read to sound like to-mu-may since you have literally nothing to go off
The actual name was on the cards. The phonetics were not IPA that requires people to learn it first and it was just spelled in plain English like SAIR-uh vuhr-JIHN-yuh BREH-nuhn. The picture of the card can be found in the article by washington post's article.
Oh, so Thomas
A list of graduates, entirely in phonetics, is wild.
Whoever gave that to her is the epitome of incompetent.
It’s almost like they set her up. Don’t wanna put that idea out there, but that sounds like a purposeful recipe for disaster.
The actual name was on the cards. The phonetics were not IPA that requires people to learn it first and it was just spelled in plain English like SAIR-uh vuhr-JIHN-yuh BREH-nuhn. The picture of the card can be found in the article by washington post's article.
So then how/why did she fuck up so bad? 😂 @meowateyourchips7417
@effmltalks Stress or She's dumb
@@meowateyourchips7417 That was a lie lol, there were ONLY the names in phonetics. Again, that was a spread lie, don't know why ppl keep spreading it.
They should make the list public so we can try at home like a fun little game.
The fact that she had the phonetic spelling AND the regular spelling is what gets me. A graduate from the school posted a picture of it and it has both spellings. You would of thought she would of started reading the regular spelling but I guess not lmao
exactly thats what confused me too she had both phonetic and regular- I have no clue what she actually did 💀💀
Everyone else seems to think she only had the phonetic spelling. Where did u see that Tik tok?
Where's A-Aaron at !?
U-um actually, its Aaron sir
It's Aaron
YOU DONE MESSED UP A-AARON
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Imagine showing up to a reading competition and your opponent suggests the names are only written in phonetics.
I’d be fine since I have an iq more than 5. How do you mess up Thomas and Sarah even in phonetics it’s easy. Especially for someone who’s supposed to be a professor. Embarrassing.
@@CasualCat64ok redditor
@@CasualCat64…have you seen phonetics?
@@CasualCat64 / ʃʌt ʌp /
@@nebulisnoobis102 …have you seen the cards? They did not use IPA. Sarah was simply “Sare-uh” and things like that. Don’t defend this tool especially since the normal name was present above in bold.
She seems to be (sometimes) combining the first name with the first syllable of the next name. Hence,
Marissa Lynn = Marisilin
Allison Nicole = Allisuna Cole
Also seems like the card sometimes represents the schwa as a u or uh, which she then pronounces 'oo'
So we get
Allison Nicole = Allisoona Cole (not sure why the 'Ni' becomes 'na'... maybe the Ni is represented as 'Nacole')
Stephanie = Stephoonie
Jessica = Jessikoo
Thomas = Ta moo may (although I don't know why it didn't end up as Tamoos)
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It sounded to me like she maybe was using Spanish sounds to the phonetics, which could account for some of the unexpected pronunciations.
Wait the name of the uni is Thomas Jefferson?
“Where do you work?”
“Tom-moo-may university”
Yeahhh that’s the thing. Even with phonetics being confusing, there’s just no way to confuse “Thomas” especially when your university (that you work at) is named after a President named Thomas.
Taumoohmay will surely remember this forever.
honestly I think it's hilarious and all of the grads will have a great story to tell 5-10+ years down the line
“It’s Thomas >:c”
no it was tohmoodmay
"You done messed up, Taumoohmay"
Ruined my graduation by just not graduating.
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@@Doofy138takin a shit right now
Ssame
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My friends last name is Geissler, and when she graduated the ceremony guy pronounced it “Gay-Slur” with a pause between both syllables and everything.
My college graduation memory: In a field house where the A/C couldn’t keep up with the heat and amount of people. Some dude 15 mins into the 2-3 hour ceremony starts letting it rip and gassing the whole section. People playing detective trying to figure out who the hell is farting based on dissipation.
I was so confused how she was struggling so much. I then looked up what phonetic spelling was. I myself would struggle 100x more pronouncing a name I know in phonetics than a name I’ve never seen just spelled out.
That’s IPA standard but that’s not what was given to her. She was given actual names and phonetics that were in plain English.
@meowateyourchips7417 yea, but honestly that was a bad choice. If i was in charge i would never give phonetics underneath classic English names, depending on the person that would end up confusing people. I remember in my high school our teacher would only write phonetics for uncommon American names or foreign names.
I dont know who thought giving her the name + phonetics of every single name was a good idea. Since usually if i see phonetics under a name i am assuming its not a commonly pronounced name.
@@bunnyrabi The spirit of it might've been to not alienate certain students for having unusual names, but I agree it's weird.
@@meowateyourchips7417it seems as tho she was not given the original names
"Dude your name's Thomas, no way anyone would mispronounce that"
"Well, actually..."
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Yeah... the *Thomas Jefferson* University.....
Shout out to all the Tuh-homas out there!
They gave her a card that unnecessarily phoneticized the names. So instead of Thomas it was literally written as “ˈtɒməs” and instead of Marissa it was “
/məˈrɪsə/“. Borderline gibberish if you don’t have very specific education.
@@thaloblue I think you're right, it had to be full phonetic alphabet to cause that kind of confusion
I was once the escort at a quinceanera, and when the announcer called me up to start the dance ceremony he called me "Carmen". Still plagues me to this day.
The cards she was given had their actual names AS WELL as the phonetic spelling though
That was a straight set up mission the school did to that lady lmao
you got swarmed by a bot
Above the phonetic spelling is the actual name in big bold letters they shared screenshots. She knew what it was she was reading phonetics for 10 mins before realizing there’s no set up
Maybe a mission for a 2nd grader
Nah she was just very dumb
This lady is gonna start summoning demons with these pronunciations
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Bayonetta: I think I will not be a substitute teacher here...
She actually did summon a demon onto stage. Luckily, it was quickly ushered out before it could do damage so that the next graduate could be presented.
Lol
Some random demon: Who has summoned me?
8:09 not the lady being absorbed into the window in the advert 😭
charlie's description of graduating at 3:40 is disturbingly accurate to my own lmfao
My university had a very good system for this. The presenter had the list of names ahead of time and had marked evey one she was not 100% confident in. If your name got marked you were directed to go see the presenter at a table in the corner. You were also encouraged to go talk to the presenter if you had what may look like a normal name but was pronounced differently. The presenter herself had you pronounce your name to her several times, she would take notes and then one of the people helping her would record a clip of you saying it. My guess is, if the presenter's notes were not enough to jog her memory on how to pronounce it, there was someone right beside her to queue up the recording for her to give a quick listen.
All in all it was very well thought out and precisely executed. One of the few things my university actually did right.
At my highschool, well known students were the ones who read your name and you could choose one of 3. You’d hand them a name card with how your names spelled, and then below how you’d pronounce. If they didn’t know for sure once you handed it over they’d ask just to make sure. Thought that worked pretty good but idk how well that would work in larger class settings (even though we were a class of 250 it’s much larger for college)
I’m not reading that but I agree
@@Compound7tiktok attention span right here lmao
That sounds like she went above and beyond her job description.
I read 1/2 of that and that's just basic, common sense and planning. This is what every human being with an IQ of at least 90 should be able to do without being told. I'm not surprised this college didn't do that because colleges are getting dumber. This staff probably has less intelligence than a class of seventh graders because even they could have executed this better.
The issue is the phonetic list probably didn't distinguish the end of one name and the beginning of a middle or surname. Which is why they was added syllables at the end of the name.
No there would be spaces
There should have been spaces, but they said in their post that they had errors with the list on top of only having thr phonetic names instead of both. It seems like the phonetics were the ONLY thing up there on top of errors with them.
But really the dean/director or anyone should have paused the ceremony and just had the students whisper their name to someone or hand out papers to write them instead of letting the ceremony keep going like that.
That doesn't explain how (tahmissmykalkanehvahree) became (ta-moo-may)
@@Cotif11 Yeah lol, still fumbled hard
@@Cotif11 It was probably written TAH-muhs MY… which getting tahmoomay from isn’t like… crazy?
I think she also thought the capitalized sounds were the word breaks, rather than going by dashes
When I graduated highschool I was sick at the time but I was powering through it (pre covid times obvi) but someone was giving a speech and we had to stand for it for whatever reason and I nearly passed out I ended up laying on the cool pavement back stage and then I got in a wheelchair and shoehorned on stage and got the wrong diploma. I'll never forget it at least
This is what my dad sounded like when he was having his stroke
They basically just made her play Mad Gab instead of just giving her names
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Just.. eviscerated by bots 😂
@stephengrigg5988 I was expecting replies under them but after reporting this is all I see. Nice😂
I hate these bots sm
@@skylerheart1257 well 3 are still showing as of now, but you got one deleted so far.
Imagine going through all that work and graduating and it ends with them just butchering the shit out of your name
Ngl I’d find it funny as fuck
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@@DaveSmith-pc4ul fair, having your name said wrong doesn’t mean you don’t graduate or something lol
Weird, i remember my university 11 years ago had this shit down, we went in the week before and wrote our stuff down phonetically, and it all worked out, idk what new system of phonetics they decided to use here.
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That school set that poor lady up to look as dumb as possible. I feel bad for her
i wonder how many ppl got a lifelong nickname through that
I love that the broadcast let her announce the name and then reveal what it actually was
Above the phonetic spelling is the actual name in big bold letters they shared screenshots. She knew what it was she was reading phonetics for 10 mins before realizing…
@@CasualCat64 Who shared screenshots? How'd they get them?
@@Camazotz-kz9wr its on washington post, theres a photo of one of the students' cards, you can see how it was written
@@Camazotz-kz9wr magic
The world is back to normal. Charlie is back in a white shirt.
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@@Doofy138 😐
@@p-__STOP, SERIOUSLY DUDE OR BOT AHHH 😑, NO ONE FUCKING CARES. QUITE LITERALLY STOP SPAMMING THIS ON EVETY SINGLE FUCKING VIDEO.
doing gods work by giving all those easy to say names a taste of what us hard names have to go through
Here’s the thing tho. Phonetic spelling is important and my graduation had all the English professors spell our names phonetically if they are hard to pronounce. I have four names and my last name is hyphenated and very complicated Italian. BUT they had another English teacher VERSED in phonetic spellings do the announcing of every grad. And she came by and rehearsed them if we had had them spell it out
It's not important
What's your Fantasy Name:
Step 1) Have your name
Step 2) Have this lady say it out loud
you would have to get the school to write it phonetically first.... she knows how to speak, did you watch the video?
@@ashcore95way to miss the point of the joke bro.
@@ashcore95 They never said anything about her ability to speak, are you stupid?
Still better than my school who got the graduation date's wrong by a year
@@unusedmonkey4435date’s what wrong?
My university made us put our pheotic name in our submission to walk, they then showed the graduation card to us on our day of graduation that had our spelled out name and pheotic spelling to confirm they got both right. How did the school mess up that bad by not going something that easy
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Exactly. Just feels lazy imo.
Sorry you have all the bots replying to your comment, I'm just here to point out that you misspelled phonetic
They did do this, exactly this, u can see the cards on Washington Posts article the announcer just chose not to read the damn non phonetic spelling for whatever reason
They literally did exactly this
The pronunciation debacle at the graduation will definitely make it more memorable for everyone. It's unfortunate for the students, but at least there's a unique story to tell.
This. It's pretty hilarious to have a completely normal name be totally butchered.
Like they're reading Mandarin while knowing like 3 letters in Mandarin. It is a hilarious story for later on and definitely would make it more memorable for me. I would find it hilarious to be honest, so hopefully these kids are able to laugh about it and not fixate on it negatively.
of course the bot comments to farm engagement
A human did not write this comment bro
All that I got for my college graduation was a virtual one due to the 2020 pandemic. I would've taken this over the virtual one because it would've been more memorable and something to look back on fondly. I do have a bit of a complicated last name, but i don't mind if someone messed it up. I hope those college graduates have amazing careers.
6:54 As a Speech-Pathology major, I can confirm that some of these phonetics are not easy for someone who isn't experienced to read. Like in jessica for example, the whole name would be transcribed as this /dʒɛsɪkə/. How would the school expect someone without some sort of linguistics or phonology background to read these accurately and quickly? That being said, she is still adding extra sounds that are not present in the transcription and this would be my personal hell if I had to rapid fire read names like that. End rant
Girl it is not transcribed like that, cmon
@@vmofu7317 It absolutely is.
@@vmofu7317❌🚨❌
I don't think it was even transcribed in IPA, I remember reading that they just spelled it out like "jeh-sih-ka" or something similar. It would have 100% made things worse for me too, I have no clue how anyone could think this was a good idea
Why even put her if she has these issues?
Charlie is right. They will remember this forever.
During my eight grade graduation, I put my wrote my middle name on the call sheet as “Danger”, but I didn’t bother with phonetic spelling because…I live dangerously.
The announcer pronounced my middle name as “Dang- er” and my family still brings it up to this day
Oh dang
@@vanjazed7021 er
Thats a banger alright.
@@adamantium7279 he truly lived dang-er-ously. A ur-chin.
At least they didn't call you dangler 😂
Why would a university just expect a person couldnt read, so they hand them cards with a bunch of stupid shit written to hope a person could pronounce what they wrote?
I like that you look into the actual context behind the situation instead of just reporting it
I thought it might have been some elaborate final test for the nursing students - see if any of them checked if she was having a stroke or similar.
6:43 She gets "Alisoona" because there's also no separation between names. So her middle name, Nicole, the "Ni" is blending in to the end of "Allison". That's also why she says "Cole" next, "Alisoona Cole" from "Allison Nicole".
Right, this was more than just phonetic, it was phonetic with no spacing between first, middle and last name. TJU release the fucking note cards!
lmao this is just a funny screw up then hardly ruined 😂
Marissa Lynn Barabazon-Carr --> məˈrɪsə lɪn Brabazon kɑr
Victoria Elizabeth Bruce --> vɪkˈtɔriə ɪˈlɪzəbəθ brus
Allison Nicole Bishop --> ˈæləsən nɪˈkoʊl ˈbɪʃəp
Even if that were the case it would be "Alisooni"
@@rattlestormrepublic4874 not if her middle was a name with an A, her last name is Nicole. They don't usually use middle names as the last name dueing graduation
I went to this school for a semester and transferred out. I can confidently say that this video is the perfect representation about how everything at TJU went.
Critical mentioning my graduation feels like a fever dream lmao
Congrats Rhee-Ah-Nih-Nih!
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I'm curious, what was the overall reaction fron the graduates? did any get mad or smthn?
edit: typo
My condolences you had to go through that
As a St. Joes about to be graduate, my condolences because what on earth did they do??? They set that woman up.
Imagine getting ready to read students name out loud and the paper they give you looks like this;
- /dʒɑn/
- /ˈmɛri/
- /ˈmaɪkəl/
- /ˈdʒɛnɪfər/
- /dʒeɪmz/
- /ˈsɛrə/
- /ˈdeɪvɪd/
- /ˈɛməli/
- /ˈkrɪstəfər/
- /ˈdʒɛsɪkə/
Took me a bit but I think I got most of them.
Yeah that’s so crazy. Took me a sec to kinda sound it out
“dean, michael, sara, david, emily, christopher..” man i don’t know what the fuck is going on with the rest
I can figure a few of them out, but doing it in a rush is a nightmare
@@bulcanworks the d looking things are j's
Having the phonetics of the names only is like assembling a puzzle without the original picture.
I feel bad for the presentor and i ridicule the school for thinking a phonetic only list was how they should have handled it.
There's still got to be more to this story. The phonetic spelling of Thomas is not Tuhmoomay. And the phonetic spelling of Elizabeth is not Lee.
Honestly this is so much better than a regular graduation now your graduation is famous for being the funniest in history lmao
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NOT ONLY is this the former high school class of 2020 finally getting to have a graduation, they also CHOSE to study nursing DURING THE PANDEMIC.
They're just doomed to suffer through graduation ceremony fuckups
High schoolers graduating is so unserious. In the UK you get your exam results at home from a website and you collect your certificates from the front office of your school a few months later. If you’re lucky you get a letter.
soooo glad my shcool had an acting professor who was also a speech coach announce the names. he nailed ALL of them
So I graduated from this college 6 years ago. We had to indicate how our name was pronounced on the forms to graduate. Plus, there's many graduations for each separate college at Jefferson, like business, etc. This wasn't new, and no other speaker has messed up badly enough to make the news. She needs to stop blaming other people.
As someone who's graduating high school this Sunday, I felt a mix of emotions watching this video.
Congrats!
In the moment, when you're handed the diploma, you WILL forget how to smile. Please remember this. GL man 🎉🎉
Who the fuck graduates on a Sunday? I thought they were always on school days usually Friday.
@@_DrinkMoreWater_ I graduate on Saturday on the 25th
hey im graduating saturday congrats
0:21 Thomas is literally in the name of the University…
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@@p-__why even do this you don’t gain any money or much fame
@p-__ wow assh@le, you can repeat post! Copy and paste, I'm impressed
Any Giants fans here who remember when they had that kid as a guest PA announcer who introduced Russ Davis as "Roos" Davis? I love how we collectively decided to run with it and started cheering him on with "ROOOOOOOS!!" from that point forward until he retired. 😂
That’s insane. I’ve graduated twice now and both times the announcer was given both the normal name and a phonetic spelling submitted by the student only if they felt it was necessary. For example my name ends in a short I sound, and I submitted a phonetic spelling to ensure they didn’t pronounce my name with a long I sound. This seems to be standard for all schools. What was
Jefferson thinking?
She was also given both the actual names AND the phonetic names
I would have been so concerned as a nursing student on this stage cause the way she pronounced Thomas actually sounds so much like someone starting slurring their speech right before a massive seizure... this hole thing is unbelievable 😭😭😭😭
Ps: I'm not a nursing student I just meant it as 'if I was'
I was thinking that, or a stroke, I'd be calling an ambulance 😅
@@purplepixie274*Ta meuh may*
There is no way you're a nursing student spelling whole wrong
@@user-ui5cj8oq8o I'm not I meant just as in as if I was
This "hole" thing? 🤨
You can really tell when someone commented in the first 0.6 seconds of the video cuz they are all insulting the way she says thomas when literally charlie explains why less than 3 minutes in
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Charlie didn’t look for pictures of the actual cards that are already floating around online. The actual names were indeed on the cards. The phonetics were not also IPA standard which requires a person to learn first and it was just spelled in English like SAIR-uh vuhr-JIHN-yuh BREH-nuhn. Even if only the phonetics were on the card, I personally would have been able to pronounce it somewhat correctly.
@@meowateyourchips7417 I've seen the video of the girl showing the name card for her name, the only explanation I could think of that doesn't involve supposing that the reader was a complete and utter imbecile was it's a Steve Harvey incident where there was something blocking the top part of the cards when she had them. But even then, after 3 names, she should have thought "Hold up, wait a minute, something ain't right!"
@@meodrac One explanation could be the person who was supposed to do the job wasn't available at the last minute and they had to just pull in whoever.
6:40 I don’t think they had spaces between first and last names. The “Allisoona” she says here was probably written with a soft u instead of an o, and she probably got the ending “na” from Nicole. With no spacing between words, there is no way to tell whether or not her name is Allison Nicole, or Allisoni Cole. I don’t think she’s trolling
I really feel bad for her. This wasn't her fault at all and I believe someone was trying to make a fool out of her. I hope the students weren't upset with her about it either.
"Balakay? Where is Balakay at?"
"My name's Blake..."
"Are you out of your goddamn mind?"
Lmao. One of the best parts of that skit. Wheezing 😭
balarke 🤤😈
Me when the teacher tells me to read at loud in class
So, according to the card I saw on The Washinton Post, she had cards with the names spelled AND phonetically....and also, the phonetics were hard to mess up if you read them the way they were on the card. Sair-uh Vuhr-jin-ya Brehn-nun and you read out...“Sigh-eer Oo-voon-jean-june Bree-nun" girl...what?!
I was in the crowd for this. My sister was graduating for nursing. Let me just say, the crowd was not quiet. It was utterly baffling how bad she was fumbling. The amount of times she had messed up just the name Elizabeth is insane! Me and many others in the crowd were periodically yelling to stop or swap with someone else. One dude yelled “get it right”, and from there it ramped up and more people joined, it was wild! Luckily, when my sister went up, someone else was reading the names. Who knew this would happen, and for such a damn big event too! Oh, and as for the phonetic spelling: my sister said that one of her professors went up to point out to her to just say the names themselves, but she kept either ignoring him or not understanding what they meant, which is where the problem arises.
God, that must’ve been completely horrible witnessing through all of that. I feel bad for those people
Oh no some people got their name said wrong. Womp womp
@@milesmccue9388 do you cut ur finger with how edgy you are
@@milesmccue9388 Agreed 100%. But I'm also very prone to cringe, so this would still be excruciating to sit through on the basis of pure cringe. In fact, I have yet to see the video, because I'm even cringing over a continent away by the thought alone lmao
I was there too, my mom was graduating. Crowd was 100% not quiet haha
EXACTLY the Key and Peele skit, I cannot believe this is real life lmaoooo
Did she call any Blakes Balakay? Any Jaquellans?
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Any Tim-oh-thees?
Dee-nice?
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@@sierraacharlie😂😂😂
It's also worth noting that not only did they give her only the phonetic spelling of the names without anything else, but they also didn't tell her that they were the phonetic spellings.
Weird. People in this comments section are saying there are published pictures of the cards also having plain English on them as well. Are you certain they only had the phoenetics, or are you assuming what you've heard is true? Personaly I'm going to wait until I've seen the cards to believe either way.
My graduation for high school was so sad. Nobody was cheering for me at all, it's was dead silent for 5 seconds, and then the pity cheer came in to stop the awkward silent.
😢
You see, "Tom-Muh-May??" is the name of those masks that give you extra lives in crash bandicoot
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it's actually "AkuAku"
Sounds like the school pranked her by giving her the names spelled phonetically while sacrificing the graduates' pride lmao
What I don’t understand is this is a grown ass woman, you pause, “excuse me I have the wrong name list “ resume
Like wtf lol
Nah that has been proven false, she had access to the names too, its diversity hire, they wanted the most ethnic person and she did as well as you would do reading names at a Nigerian graduation..
@@gahaha8565 so uh, how do you know all that?
@@gahaha8565bro is “woke”
@@branch737 ppl shared what the cards looked like, also the lady is obviously not a native speaker
This should be one of your challenges in TOC
Honestly, the fact that nobody thought she was having a stroke is kinda terrifying,…
Not stopping is the thing that gets me 😂
Like just turn to your boss and be like “YO, WTF. REAL LIST, PLZ 🙏 THANKS”
If I was early on in presentations, I would have grabbed the mic and the cards and asked for someone to read them out right.
@@jessehcreative she’s in a booth bro
Sealed away and hidden
There is no stopping fate
my college graduation was right after the brunt of the pandemic ended, so it had no ceremony or party, it was just a handful of people in a line taking a bunch of pictures, but I went there with 0 intention of taking pictures and honestly didn't even know there were going to be pictures, so I wore some long jhorts and a pair of dirty sneakers, and now all have to remember that day are a bunch of wackass pictures of me looking like a homeless teen runaway junkie. I *wish* they were announcing names and the person doing it called me Quandale Dingle or something, that would've made the occasion actually worth smiling about
Drip or drown my friend, drip or drown...
At least you even got a graduation. They canceled ours.
@@FreshTillDeath56 mine had been cancelled too, they eventually decided to change the date, but by this point, it was just something to say it happened at all. like I said, I didn't expect to even take pictures, I legit thought I was just gonna pick up the diploma and leave
I’m studying for my master’s degree in linguistics and frequently come across phonetic spellings and even I’d probably have issues reading those out loud correctly immediately
In middle school, I was super involved with the spelling bee. I was one of those kids who studied for it and everything. In high school, I was an editor for a student magazine. In college, I majored in English.
I still don’t know how to read phonetic spellings.
5:23 from now on this is my username
Omg you actually did it xD
I thought it was the White Woman struggling to pronounce some "ethnic" names but she is struggling with THOMAS 😂
It feels like that was the point, like “let’s show the white people how it feels” kind of thing.
@@timmiller1mainstream American culture has nothing but contempt for white Americans it cares more for white Ukrainian then white Americans the best singing White American can do is youth is White Privilege in higher sexual market place value to go to another country to Ashley live a halfway decent life that doesn't involve Kartel people or 13%ers
@@timmiller1I think they chose phonetic spelling because they thought it would make it so everyone's name is pronounced with the same proficiency.
They were right, I just don't think they expected to be right by mispronouncing everyone's name regardless of how common it might be.
@@timmiller1 Everyone blames White people for not being able to pronounce a name like Uvuwevewe Ogwewumbwem-Osas correctly but nobody gets mad at Japanese people for not being able to prounce "William Wallace" correctly. That's a racist double-standard.
@@MrJames1034 Thank you for exposing the horrors of this unjust world 🙏🏼
The most ironic part of this is that this is from Ta-moo-may Jefferson University.
At least they got to walk. My graduation happened during Covid and because of rain, they skipped the walking altogether
Allison phonetics is wild there’s a few variations
Al-li-son,
AL-i-suhn,
AEL-ih-SahN, or
al-uh-suh n
This is why you do IPA, wtf.
Lol
IPA is bad @@norbertsreignofterror9418
2:18 Oh no this is exactly how much respect the school has for its graduates.
no multiple ppl from the graduation posted their cards, and they had both the phonetic & regular spelling lol
as someone who graduated yesterday, this warms my heart
When I read the title I thought it was gonna be about the Chiefs player commencement speech
*accidently casts a spell to summon a demon*
'Whomst has summoned the almighty one '
*Hands the Almighty One a degree in nursing
*shakes hand
"Congratulations!" *takes photo
Almighty one: "Wh...?"
Gotta say, that _is_ a interesting way to remember a class. Because i remember that my CTC Teacher showed us the Key&Peele skit about the "Substitute Teacher," not long before a fire drill. And during that, i would be called ALE-x.
What’s with the graduation shit this year? The USC disaster, the Butker speech and now this
Woman, EVEN THE NAME OF THE SCHOOL IS THOMAS, how hard could it possibly be?
I know it was said a thousand times but it still makes me smh
I don’t know how anyone is standing up for her… phonetics is confusing but… if you’re a professor you should absolutely know how to read in phonetics.
My graduation 2 years ago was slightly different.
Bad parts: I was stressed out because my zipper on the gown broke during the ceremony and I was tearing up slightly frantically trying and failing to zip it up. I for some stupid reason skipped out on the graduation party and is one of the biggest regrets of my life.
Good parts: My elementary school principal was one of the people I shook the hands of and I gave the principal of my high school a big hug. I also got a hug from my crush.
Tom-moo-may jef-far-san oni-var-sity