Annoying, Hot, Big Head Annoys Me
Since I don't have digital cable, and don't subscribe to any pay movie or sports channels, I have to watch what comes on regular cable TV. Unfortunatly, with regular cable TV my only optoins are;
1) movies like Con Air and Roadhouse which are not only on 14 times a week, but have all the swears and boobs edited out. (Along with commercials every 2 minutes.)
2)Yankkkee games (year round, courtesy of YES.)
3) Cold Case Files, Forensic Files, and other detective based shows, (which are good, except for the fact that they are on late.)
4) Food Network.
Now, Food Network is great. I like food. I like TV. I like Mark Summers. Perfect! Bad part about Food Network: Everyday Italian, hosted by Annoying Big Head. Annoying Big Head is hot, but that's the extent of her appeal. I don't mind the fact that she can't really cook, or the fact that she only has a TV show because she is the granddaughter of Dino Delaurentis. (SIC?) I mind the fact that she does the super annoying Italian-American fake Italian pronunciation thing; saying Italian words and leaving the last syllable off. (So "prosciutto" becomes "proshoot", "mozzarella" becomes "mootzarel", and "ricotta" become "rigot". It's fucking irritating.)
Now I'm not Italian, I speak no Italian, and I've never tried to learn Italian. However I was sure that this pronunciation was incorrect. I did some internet research and it turns out my ASSumption was correct, and that Italians do in fact pronounce EVERY letter in EVERY syllable in EVERY word. Turns out this dropping of syllables thing is something that American "Italians" do. (Thank you Sopranos.) This makes Hot Big Head annoying.
Now I am guilty of being better than most in that I can somewhat understand and use a language which is not English. However whenever I say "bratwurst" or "sauerkraut", unless every other word in that sentence is also in German, I say "bratwurst" or "sauerkraut" as you would expect an American to say "bratwurst" or "sauerkraut." It's not becuase I fear ridicule from my peers, (like I'd give,) its because I wouldn't be treating other languages fairly. As I cannot pronounce Spanish, Greek, Swahili or Swedish words correctly, why draw a line?
And for Christ's sake, if you're going to be so pretentious as to insist on pronouncing ethnic words ethnically, please make sure you are doing so CORRECTLY.
Capisca?
1) movies like Con Air and Roadhouse which are not only on 14 times a week, but have all the swears and boobs edited out. (Along with commercials every 2 minutes.)
2)Yankkkee games (year round, courtesy of YES.)
3) Cold Case Files, Forensic Files, and other detective based shows, (which are good, except for the fact that they are on late.)
4) Food Network.
Now, Food Network is great. I like food. I like TV. I like Mark Summers. Perfect! Bad part about Food Network: Everyday Italian, hosted by Annoying Big Head. Annoying Big Head is hot, but that's the extent of her appeal. I don't mind the fact that she can't really cook, or the fact that she only has a TV show because she is the granddaughter of Dino Delaurentis. (SIC?) I mind the fact that she does the super annoying Italian-American fake Italian pronunciation thing; saying Italian words and leaving the last syllable off. (So "prosciutto" becomes "proshoot", "mozzarella" becomes "mootzarel", and "ricotta" become "rigot". It's fucking irritating.)
Now I'm not Italian, I speak no Italian, and I've never tried to learn Italian. However I was sure that this pronunciation was incorrect. I did some internet research and it turns out my ASSumption was correct, and that Italians do in fact pronounce EVERY letter in EVERY syllable in EVERY word. Turns out this dropping of syllables thing is something that American "Italians" do. (Thank you Sopranos.) This makes Hot Big Head annoying.
Now I am guilty of being better than most in that I can somewhat understand and use a language which is not English. However whenever I say "bratwurst" or "sauerkraut", unless every other word in that sentence is also in German, I say "bratwurst" or "sauerkraut" as you would expect an American to say "bratwurst" or "sauerkraut." It's not becuase I fear ridicule from my peers, (like I'd give,) its because I wouldn't be treating other languages fairly. As I cannot pronounce Spanish, Greek, Swahili or Swedish words correctly, why draw a line?
And for Christ's sake, if you're going to be so pretentious as to insist on pronouncing ethnic words ethnically, please make sure you are doing so CORRECTLY.
Capisca?
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