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cormac ([personal profile] cormac) wrote2008-08-29 02:04 pm

Shibboleth

It should be a constitutional requirement that anyone trying to run for political office must be able to pronounce the following word correctly:

Nuclear.

Look at the word. Nuclear. Like clear. As in it should be perfectly clear how the word nuclear is pronounced.

Our current Idiot-in-Chief can't pronounce the word, and he's got his finger on the button. McThuselah's second-in-command just nukular'd in her first national address. Christ on a stick, I'm sick of this kakistocratic bullshit!
lady_songsmith: owl (Default)

[personal profile] lady_songsmith 2008-08-29 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
::puts on language geek hat::

Actually, clear is more of a schwa whereas nuclear has an active final vowel. Under no circumstances should there be more than one "u" in nuclear, though.

[identity profile] herveus.livejournal.com 2008-08-30 12:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. It takes little in the way of observatory powers to see that the 'c' and the 'l' are adjacent, having no vowel separating them.