Furthermore…

I saw a program last night from Polish Television about the Vatican’s art restoration and preservation programs. Real interesting, but the Polish narrator didn’t speak English real well. I bet there are some Polish-American folks who could get a job in their spare time helping the film makers pronounce things better. For tapestries the narrator would say tape-istries. There were a couple of other strange-sounding pronunciations I noticed as well, but I can’t think of them now. I suppose it is desirable in one sense to have a foreign sounding narrator, as it contributes a kind of high-sounding international quality, after the fashion of the announcers on classical music radio programs, who chatter along like Americans, then self-consciously pronounce the names of foreign composers and musicians with foreign phonemes as though instantaneously transporting everyone to Hungary, Germany or Russia. Pretty klassi.

Hospital cleaning woman pushing MEDICAL WASTE cart to mother in bed with newborn:

“Are you going to keep the baby?”