{"id":1110,"date":"2009-05-29T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T19:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2009-05-30T13:57:51","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T17:57:51","slug":"krikorian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/05\/29\/krikorian\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode To Mark Krikorian"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Review’s Mark Krikorian is having\u00a0problems with Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s name.<\/a> Apparently, its pronunciation doesn’t sufficiently conform to Krikorian’s Anglo standards. So what’s his solution? He pronounces it any old way he feels like it. And he thinks the rest of us should do the same.<\/p>\n

Krikorian argued that the proper pronunciation, preferred by the judge and her family, is “unnatural in English,” and “something we shouldn’t be giving in to.” It wasn’t clear which group of people constituted “we.”<\/p>\n

Krikorian added that “newcomers” should “adapt” to how “countrymen say your name.” To do otherwise would be a failure of “multiculturalism.” He knows how to pronounce the Supreme Court nominee’s name, but he doesn’t like it, and would like others to join him in pronouncing it incorrectly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After catching some well-deserved flack about these comments, Krikorian further embarrassed himself<\/a> with this:<\/p>\n

While in the past there may well have been too much social pressure for what sociologists call Anglo-conformity, now there isn’t enough. I think that’s a concern that most Americans share at some level, which is the root of the angst over excessive immigration, bilingual education, official English, etc.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If anyone deserves a limerick, it’s Mark Krikorian:<\/p>\n

Ode To Mark Krikorian
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Pronouncing some names can be tough.
\nWhen they’re foreign they’re weird and they’re rough.
\nYes, Krikorian’s right.
\nKrik, they’re really a blight.
\nSo one syllable’s surely enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The National Review’s Mark Krikorian is having\u00a0problems with Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s name. Apparently, its pronunciation doesn’t sufficiently conform to Krikorian’s Anglo standards. So what’s his solution? He pronounces it any old way he feels like it. And he thinks the rest of us should do the same. Krikorian argued that the proper pronunciation, preferred by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,2,26,154,6,7,3,727,13],"tags":[741,618,2754,2748,737,204,738,740,739,728,2757],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1126,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions\/1126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}