What legal issues would there be from this? That's what I'm curious about.
I don't know how it works with TV - they named one of the victims on the show but not the other two - I was wondering if they needed permission to use the name. A long shot I know. I said the same thing yesterday to DH when he said people think it was intentional (not nefarious ) - just trying to think why they would intentionally mispronounce the name of the town which was locked down for a day and where the shootouts happened etc.
I avoid saying the name New Orleans at all costs. I know no matter how I pronounce it somebody is going to tell me I did it wrong.
If I must, I just say it fast and mumbly and hope for the best.
This is also my approach to the word crayon.
There's more than one pronunciation for the word crayon?
just varying levels of enunciation - but somewhere along the way during my childhood I started saying "crown" and that's just every kind of wrong. Then I overcorrected to a clearly two syllable cray-on and that still got me teased. So now I just avoid saying it entirely or mumble it quickly.
People mispronounce town names ALL THE TIME. Off the top of my head from my travels: Reading PA. (red-ing not like the thing you do with books) Lancaster PA. (it's not Lan-caster. It's closer to Lanc-astir.) Ellicott city (the cott is sorta elided. Ellic't? no idea how to type that.) North Versailles, PA (actually pronounced Ver-sales. As painful as that may be.)
I have heard in-market real life newscasters say every single one of those wrong.
And tangent - there was a traffic guy on one of our local radio stations that mispronounced the name of the company sponsoring the traffic report wrong every.single.time and it drove me nuts. Finally I commented on their FB page that somebody should fix that, and the next day - he said it right. Every time I hear it now I mentally high five myself.
Or this is really embarrassing - I grew up outside of Philly, in South Jersey.
I also thought Wilkes-Barre was pronounced like Wilks Bar, not wilks berry.
that is weird that they mispronounced it. I obviously don't live far from Boston but sometimes the reporters mispronounce places like Woburn and Peabody on the Providence local news.
I would assume that it was intentional that they mispronounced Watertown if it happened throughout the show but that is totally weird...I don't watch the show so I don't know enough about it.
thanks, I'm not the only tinfoil hat wearer here. They did it several times on the show. Sam Waterston grew up in Cambridge. Making a weird point about how the news is wrong - by being wrong?
Well, as an east coaster who grew up watching shows set in the east refer to things like "The 95" for years, I pretty much presume everyone in Hollywood gets everything wrong about anything east of Hot Springs.
Lancaster PA. (it's not Lan-caster. It's closer to Lanc-astir.)
THANK YOU. Every time I hear someone say Lane-caster, PA, I cringe a little.
Or this is really embarrassing - I grew up outside of Philly, in South Jersey.
I also thought Wilkes-Barre was pronounced like Wilks Bar, not wilks berry.
that is weird that they mispronounced it. I obviously don't live far from Boston but sometimes the reporters mispronounce places like Woburn and Peabody on the Providence local news.
I would assume that it was intentional that they mispronounced Watertown if it happened throughout the show but that is totally weird...I don't watch the show so I don't know enough about it.
thanks, I'm not the only tinfoil hat wearer here. They did it several times on the show. Sam Waterston grew up in Cambridge. Making a weird point about how the news is wrong - by being wrong?
In order to make that point, though, you would have to be intentionally wrong about something the majority of your audience would recognize as wrong. And this is clearly not that thing.
Did they even say "Watertown" more than once? It was not the emphasis of the show.
Yes. 4 or 5 times. It was not the emphasis of the show - but the Marathon bombings with an emphasis on the aftermath and particularly the news and internet treatment and reporting of it was.
Did they even say "Watertown" more than once? It was not the emphasis of the show.
Yes. 4 or 5 times. It was not the emphasis of the show - but the Marathon bombings with an emphasis on the aftermath and particularly the news and internet treatment and reporting of it was.
One of the things that came out of the internet rushing to identify suspects was that someone on reddit or four chan suggested that perhaps one of the bombers looked like this missing student from Brown University. It was really tragic because his body washed up a few weeks later (I think he jumped off a bridge and committed suicide) but his parents and family had all flown out here. They had a memorial page up on facebook to help coordinate the search for him (they were still hoping to find him alive at that point) and I think it got filled with nasty comments. I always felt really bad for those family members. The internet rush to judgement and then subsequent trolling is an interesting phenomenon.
I don't watch Newroom, I can't stand Olvia Munn, but in any case, I'll take the mispronunciation of Watertown over the reporter who on the day of the bombing said, "it looks like a bomb went off somewhere." in response to how quiet Watertown was.
Oh God. Please don't let this board ruin Olivia Munn for me. I'm in love with her. She's not like a Marky Mark secret racist is she?
Lmao,no. A few years ago she bashed the show that gave her, her start,AOTS. After that i lost respect for her.
I ruined one of my friend's days when I told her it's pronounced redding and so is the railroad in Monopoly. I have no idea why she took it so hard that she'd been mispronouncing it all this time, but she did. She swore up and down that I was wrong.
My mind is blown, I never knew that about Monopoly. I'm also mentally filing away all of the other pronunciations for towns in the region so I can try not to come off stupid someday.
People mispronounce town names ALL THE TIME. Off the top of my head from my travels: Reading PA. (red-ing not like the thing you do with books) Lancaster PA. (it's not Lan-caster. It's closer to Lanc-astir.) Ellicott city (the cott is sorta elided. Ellic't? no idea how to type that.) North Versailles, PA (actually pronounced Ver-sales. As painful as that may be.)
I have heard in-market real life newscasters say every single one of those wrong.
And tangent - there was a traffic guy on one of our local radio stations that mispronounced the name of the company sponsoring the traffic report wrong every.single.time and it drove me nuts. Finally I commented on their FB page that somebody should fix that, and the next day - he said it right. Every time I hear it now I mentally high five myself.
An interesting one in New Jersey is Secaucus ... people from that immediate area, like me, pronounce it "SEE-caw-kus." Everyone else in the state says "Suh-KAH-kiss." Both are considered acceptable.
SEE-caw-kus is much more acceptable, though
Belleville (bell-vull) comes to mind in addition to a few others.
Well, as an east coaster who grew up watching shows set in the east refer to things like "The 95" for years, I pretty much presume everyone in Hollywood gets everything wrong about anything east of Hot Springs.
People mispronounce town names ALL THE TIME. Off the top of my head from my travels:
Lancaster PA. (it's not Lan-caster. It's closer to Lanc-astir.) Ellicott city (the cott is sorta elided. Ellic't? no idea how to type that.) North Versailles, PA (actually pronounced Ver-sales. As painful as that may be.)
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God, LANcaster drives me nuts. It took me years to get H to pronounce it Lain-cas-ster like he should.
But he's from an area where there is a Russia (Rooo-shee),Versailles (ver-sails) and a Bellefontaine (bell-fountain) so he's not to be trusted anyway.
Lmao,no. A few years ago she bashed the show that gave her, her start,AOTS. After that i lost respect for her.
Thank God. I can handle this.
She was such a pain in the ass on Attack of the Show too, playing up the whole "nerds think I'm hot but I'm unobtainable" thing that some chicks do with gamers.
People mispronounce town names ALL THE TIME. Off the top of my head from my travels: Reading PA. (red-ing not like the thing you do with books) Lancaster PA. (it's not Lan-caster. It's closer to Lanc-astir.) Ellicott city (the cott is sorta elided. Ellic't? no idea how to type that.) North Versailles, PA (actually pronounced Ver-sales. As painful as that may be.)
I have heard in-market real life newscasters say every single one of those wrong.
And tangent - there was a traffic guy on one of our local radio stations that mispronounced the name of the company sponsoring the traffic report wrong every.single.time and it drove me nuts. Finally I commented on their FB page that somebody should fix that, and the next day - he said it right. Every time I hear it now I mentally high five myself.
Or this is really embarrassing - I grew up outside of Philly, in South Jersey.
I also thought Wilkes-Barre was pronounced like Wilks Bar, not wilks berry.
that is weird that they mispronounced it. I obviously don't live far from Boston but sometimes the reporters mispronounce places like Woburn and Peabody on the Providence local news.
I would assume that it was intentional that they mispronounced Watertown if it happened throughout the show but that is totally weird...I don't watch the show so I don't know enough about it.
I thought that for YEARS.
jillboston was it every character who mispronounced it? If it was one or two, I would think that they were just mispronouncing it while practicing their lines and the director never corrected them. If it was everyone, then it would be a directorial mistake to correct that pronunciation.
Like, have you ever seen a bad movie where different characters pronounce something wrong? It's usually due to bad direction. In this case, if it was everyone, it sounds like the direction was good, but misguided.
Or this is really embarrassing - I grew up outside of Philly, in South Jersey.
I also thought Wilkes-Barre was pronounced like Wilks Bar, not wilks berry.
that is weird that they mispronounced it. I obviously don't live far from Boston but sometimes the reporters mispronounce places like Woburn and Peabody on the Providence local news.
I would assume that it was intentional that they mispronounced Watertown if it happened throughout the show but that is totally weird...I don't watch the show so I don't know enough about it.
I thought that for YEARS.
jillboston was it every character who mispronounced it? If it was one or two, I would think that they were just mispronouncing it while practicing their lines and the director never corrected them. If it was everyone, then it would be a directorial mistake to correct that pronunciation.
Like, have you ever seen a bad movie where different characters pronounce something wrong? It's usually due to bad direction. In this case, if it was everyone, it sounds like the direction was good, but misguided.
Oh! Don't forget Concord is like conquered.
yep- more than one character -mispronounced every time. I hate to sound like a crank - if it was one comedian line, one line in show etc etc. This is a show where the writers would have pored over clips , they used some after all in the episode, Sam Waterston is from Cambridge -next to Watertown. Watertown is not a name that has any reason to get misprounounced (like Reading, Worcester, Dedham, Woburn). I know it sounds crazy.
She also comes across as fairly insufferable in her book/memoir. Don't read it Stan.
She wrote a memoir, about what, her 30yrs on this planet doing nothing.
Basically. I mean, it sounds like she had a tough time as a kid, being bi-racial and moving around didn't help her fit in, but she's hardly alone in regards to her experiences growing up. A lot of it came across as "look at me now; in your face meanies", as if that was the whole reason for the book. Combine that with her remarks about AOTS and what was going on at The Daily Show, it was extremely off-putting to say the least.
And honestly, while I think she's gorgeous, I just don't find her that talented or funny. She throws away so many lines on Newsroom, it drives me up the wall. As long as her character is supposed to be direct or irritated, she's fine, but the moment some nuance is called for, her acting flattens out. Sorry Stan, I know you love her as Sloane. lol
Basically. I mean, it sounds like she had a tough time as a kid, being bi-racial and moving around didn't help her fit in, but she's hardly alone in regards to her experiences growing up. A lot of it came across as "look at me now; in your face meanies", as if that was the whole reason for the book. Combine that with her remarks about AOTS and what was going on at The Daily Show, it was extremely off-putting to say the least.
And honestly, while I think she's gorgeous, I just don't find her that talented or funny. She throws away so many lines on Newsroom, it drives me up the wall. As long as her character is supposed to be direct or irritated, she's fine, but the moment some nuance is called for, her acting flattens out. Sorry Stan, I know you love her as Sloane. lol
Honestly, I think I love Sloane more than her. Don't call me girl, Sir. She's MM, won't sell out, kind of a weirdo, punched a guy in the face for releasing nudes, and she's just hot. I'll take Sloane and leave Olivia Munn.
That makes sense, I like Sloane a lot too, which is why it grates on my nerves when Olivia's acting is off.
Post by phunluvin82 on Nov 12, 2014 1:34:06 GMT -5
I've been wondering why Olivia Munn had so many haters. Makes sense now. I've never seen that show so I was wondering about the reason. I love Sloane too, she's a great character. I've really never seen Olivia Munn in any major roles though I don't think.
Yes. 4 or 5 times. It was not the emphasis of the show - but the Marathon bombings with an emphasis on the aftermath and particularly the news and internet treatment and reporting of it was.
I haven't seen the episode yet. But I read a review for the season which said it focuses overall on the news casters' fumbling and mishandling of the Boston marathon bombings. Do you think it could be related to that arc somehow?
I do. It is totally a weird thing to do though with the result being most people saying "meh" - and rightfully so.
Yes. 4 or 5 times. It was not the emphasis of the show - but the Marathon bombings with an emphasis on the aftermath and particularly the news and internet treatment and reporting of it was.
One of the things that came out of the internet rushing to identify suspects was that someone on reddit or four chan suggested that perhaps one of the bombers looked like this missing student from Brown University. It was really tragic because his body washed up a few weeks later (I think he jumped off a bridge and committed suicide) but his parents and family had all flown out here. They had a memorial page up on facebook to help coordinate the search for him (they were still hoping to find him alive at that point) and I think it got filled with nasty comments. I always felt really bad for those family members. The internet rush to judgement and then subsequent trolling is an interesting phenomenon.
She also comes across as fairly insufferable in her book/memoir. Don't read it Stan.
She wrote a memoir, about what, her 30yrs on this planet doing nothing.
Does it have transcripts of the dirty texts she and Chris Pine were trading because I might read all that. eclaires' boyfriend is a dirty, dirty man. You get it, Captain Kirk.
She wrote a memoir, about what, her 30yrs on this planet doing nothing.
Does it have transcripts of the dirty texts she and Chris Pine were trading because I might read all that. eclaires' boyfriend is a dirty, dirty man. You get it, Captain Kirk.
Or her self-proclaimed affair with Justin Timberlake.
Does it have transcripts of the dirty texts she and Chris Pine were trading because I might read all that. eclaires' boyfriend is a dirty, dirty man. You get it, Captain Kirk.
Or her self-proclaimed affair with Justin Timberlake.
I heard that was true and from outlets that weren't Olivia Munn. Both the Pine and Timberlake bits came from the previous cellphone hacks I thought, the same one that netted us those Blake Lively nudes everyone supposed she sent to Ben Affleck while they were shooting The Town.
Or her self-proclaimed affair with Justin Timberlake.
I heard that was true and from outlets that weren't Olivia Munn. Both the Pine and Timberlake bits came from the previous cellphone hacks I thought, the same one that netted us those Blake Lively nudes everyone supposed she sent to Ben Affleck while they were shooting The Town.
I have no idea where it came from, I just remember her talking about it or some shit like that. For a person that got her start on a show that was based around gaming, computer, and the internet world she should have known better.
I heard that was true and from outlets that weren't Olivia Munn. Both the Pine and Timberlake bits came from the previous cellphone hacks I thought, the same one that netted us those Blake Lively nudes everyone supposed she sent to Ben Affleck while they were shooting The Town.
I have no idea where it came from, I just remember her talking about it or some shit like that. For a person that got her start on a show that was based around gaming, computer, and the internet world she should have known better.
I always got the impression Olivia Munn wanted everyone to know. At the time, she was fresh on The Daily Show and didn't have a whole lot of career to speak of save being the Attack of the Show girl and how many people actually knew what G4 was?
I'm still mad at G4. They ruined a good thing. That channel could have been fucking awesome. Instead, they ditched real content and played Cops marathons all the damned time. Whatever, yo. There's always youtube.