Automatic Elimation For This Offense...

I just watched an episode where the challenger was hoping to make good use of all the knowledge he'd "garnished" over his career.



Build a man a fire, he's warm for a day. Light a man on fire & he's warm for the rest of his life!

Gnocchi hi is not common to most people and there's no such thing as a typical American.

The dish has no feelings or concept of disrespect. It's an inanimate object.

What's happening is, people that care about pronunciation and proper terms are aggravated by people that don't use them. But what they forget is, other people mat have lesser standards about those things, might simply be used to pronouncing things the way they've grown up saying them, or don't have the intelligence or motivation to correct themselves. Some of them do it because they think it's cute and these days no one is really correcting people in the workplace, so it continues.

It used to get on my nerves, too. But I just consider the sources. A lot of TV chefs and contestants aren't well spoken and don't care. like Gordon Ramsay saying "FILL-its" instead of "fill-LAYS" for the word fillet. Or saying "scollops" for scallops. now I just expect it and smirk. I see the humor in it.

It can go th other way, too. I get annoyed at pompous chefs that go out of their way to pronounce things perfectly to the point you just want to slap them. Giada de Laurentis and Martio Batali comes to mind. Lol

Also, just because people have a job tite, doesn't mean they're the best at it. Most people are pretty lax these days.

Thank you! In fact, I'm over pronunciation shift, with Italian pronounced like French or German; Spanish pronounced like Italian; and French pronounced like who knows what.

I'd like to be a pessimist, but this is a luxury I cannot afford.—Joseph of Cordoba