I remember when Michelle Bachman was in front. Then it was Newt Gingrich and so on.

syllable - like he says

nom·i·nee
ˌnäməˈnē/

but, when you ask to hear pronunciation - they accent the last
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=nominee

As if it were spelled "nomimy" rhyming with "hominy". Heavy stress is given on the last syllable in my dictionary. Though the word sounds perfectly normal to me with heavy stress on the first and medium stress on the last.

That's why the stress mark is subscript. Note the superscript stress mark before the last syllable, indicating primary stress.

Dictionary.com gives "nom-uh-nee"

Kenyon & Knott's Pronouncing Dictionary of American English (the definitive source, IMO) gives the stress on the last syllable. Kenyon & Knott's uses the International Phonetic Alphabet, so I can't reproduce it here... and they don't give an alternate pronunciation.

for InSUREance. Sounds ignorant.

Oh...another... MOTtoe for motto

Judge us by our brains and words instead of the way we pronounce things. We think pak mah cah sounds weird, so guess we're not as judgemental as others. (?)

I'm really sick of people saying "southerners", like it's every one of us, are ignorant because we speak with a different accent. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

If you're down here, then YOU are the one saying it incorrectly. God, I'm so sick of this shit on DU.

else who is saying a word incorrectly, you fit right in. But, here's what I don't understand (and using this example, NAY' TOE (like it is two words), because I have never heard anyone else say it that way anywhere else)...why people don't notice that everyone else they hear when traveling elsewhere - while watching news, commentary, events, etc. is saying it differently. Like it or not, the people who are saying it correctly - judge you as not being perceptive enough to realize you are not saying it correctly.

I was a waiter here in Atlanta, and I've waited on some New Yorkers that I would like to spit on. Such rude people.
People down here in GA are very hospitable and friendly. Many of us are Dems and Liberals too. So watch it.

IPA indicates a long a as in base (too lazy to copy IPA characters) followed by long o as in code, which in "pidgin phonetics" would be as you typed it.

what I am describing is an accent on TOE. Nay TOE. Mot TOE. Like each is two words

With the accent on the second syllable, ve-HIC-le.

how to speak English.

were two peoples divided by a common language.

Let's not even mention the British dialects.

If the ignorance was inherently and intrinsicly in the sound of how the word is pronounced, then everyone everywhere would agree that INsurance etc sounds ignorant. But that is clearly not the case. No dear, the label "ignorant" is a quality that you impute and project onto the sound that you hear. The ignorance is in you. Go study the heart sutra.

But when I lived in Fayetteville, NC when I was in High School everyone commented on how "funny" I sounded. And when I was in Boston everyone said I sounded like a foreigner, like I was British or something.

And I was brought up in Mexico and let me tell you that the Spanish speaking countries all have VERY different accents. You can tell what country the speaker is from by their accents, just like you can distinguish between Southern English, New England English, Irish and Scottish English, British English and Australian English.

We all sound weird to someone.

Personally I love different accents. I think it makes us all interesting.

Everyone learns to pronounce words as they hear them growing up.

How do you pronounce the word comparable? Is it with the accent on the the o or on the first a? I hear it pronounced both ways all the time. People pronounce it the way they hear it pronounced when they first hear it.

Scary prospect.

He's a radical supply sider. He is extremely anti-labor. He believes anything Wall Street wants they should have.

Electing Kasich would be about as bad as electing Jeb.

He seems like the only adult in the room compared to the rest of their clown car. That's very dangerous for us.

Trump could win with 16% of the vote. Wow.

Except, possibly, Donald Trump. His support is pure racism. The cost to the nation's eroding capacity to engage in responsible self-government vastly outweighs any short-term political benefit to the Democratic party.

Seems to me if damage to responsible, serious government is the issue, every one of those candidates will continue the erosion.

I just can't take pleasure in the continuing shift of tolerable open political dialogue toward extremism and corporatism in our country. Romney declares 42% of Americans are deadbeats (in that case, not exactly openly) and he still comes close-ish to becoming the President of the United States. So that enables the GOP and Tea Partiers to go further. Trump declares explicitly that immigrants from Mexico are murderers and rapists, and he sees a bump in support. This goes on everywhere, which is why cutting Social Security/Medicare benefits is now an open topic, rather than political death. The further the right pushes the dialogue into topics that:

1) Keep people squabbling over petty issues, meaningless to their corporate backers but great for distraction - god, guns, gays, 'race', abortion.

2) Subtly meld those issues with anti-viable government concepts (insufficient taxation so that undesirable government functions are subject to the chopping block, all forms of welfare are just helping deadbeats, etc.)

the further our Republic sinks toward corporate hegemony.

We'd be celebrating pizza as the national food these days.

And furthermore, ol' Newt had trouble with his pronunciations because he was talking out his ass - as he'd always done before.

They are cowering before him.

He is like an out of control child emperor.

Larger damage than the Republicans will admit. He is defining them as anti immigrant, racist shits. Which of course they are, but they like all of that to be more covert and less openly stated.

They prefer to telegraph their racism to that part of their base subtly. Trump is forcing them to openly either agree or disagree with his racist crap. If they disagree, they turn off that part of their base, and if they agree they turn off everyone else.

with this moron: He is saying out loud what they and the base all actually believe but won't say. That's why they do not dare call him out. This is highly entertaining.

he can't be knocked out by "revelations" in the way that a normal candidate can.

The Republicans would have to screw him out of the nomination with procedural unfairness,

Trump could drag the nut vote out of the republican party

Not stunning if it is par for the course!

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trail a neurosurgeon, a guy who has filed for bankruptcy 6 times and a woman who nearly ruined a company
I wonder what Bill Buckley, Barry Goldwater, Dwight Eisenhower, Gov Dewey, Howard Baker, Nelson Rockefeller and Goodwin Knight would think

Cursed are the right wing nut jobs they are not worthy to inherit anything.

... of friends who id as republicans. They both agreed Trump is batshit crazy, but they like that he's not the establishment and that he's not afraid to say what he thinks. Maybe they're so disappointed in the same old occupants of the clown car that they're just looking for a wild card. They seem to LIKE that he's turning their party inside out. Very odd.

...they are all LOVIN' on The Donald.

Weird, but, understandable, if you look at the rest of the GOP Klown Kar Kandidates, I guess.

... and pretty open minded on social issues. But electing a "businessman" to run the country like a business is right up their ally. I tell them all the time that they are the most dangerous conservatives on the planet because of that philosophy, but they think I'm just joking.

The goal is to send a businessman like that to DC to bankrupt and destroy the Federal Govt.

I knew at least once, but I had no idea six times.

That should be a meme, what you just wrote in your subject heading.


Cher

is a recipe for complete disaster. Like going to a podiatrist when you need a brain surgeon.

It did not work too well and they had to back off. Lots of outsourcing of good long time government people and loss of institutional history.

I ask them which company? Enron? Chrysler? WorldCom?

Then I ask them what percentage of businesses fail within TWO years? (It's about 80%). Do they want the government run like that?

Then I say the US, not run like a business, is over 200 years old and still going strong. NAME ONE BUSINESS, JUST ONE, that can say the same?

That usually shuts the dumb f--ks up.

... with Stewart leaving TDS, I don't know where I'll go for comic relief!

I don't think he anticipated this craziness. Not that I think he'll just do TDS all over again, but something with bite and sting in a new way. He has to realize that we need him now more than ever...

about getting out of the race. He was originally in the race to make the rest of their candidates look halfway sane. But as the polls are showing this is now going to far.

Maybe he'll run as independent.

He could win. I give him less than a 10% chance, but his chance is not zero. He sucks all the air out of the GOP race, nobody else is able to lay a glove on him, and he rides a populist wave of resentment to the nomination. Then Hilary (assuming she's the nominee) gets an unrecoverable October surprise, or has a serious health crisis, or something.

President Trump. Wonder what Putin would think of that?

With so many candidates, the Republican convention will be deadlocked. This is because they have proportional distribution of delegates in the largest states. Donald may very well have one of the largest blocks. Romney will be chosen as the compromise candidate.

Where does Trumps support go when he fizzles out? And where does Carson's go when he flames out?

If you go to Free Republic, you will see how much they love him. To us he is a mad man, to them he tells it as it is. He knows TV so the debates will be easy for him, there will be no oops moment for him. He has name recognition in the primaries, and Jeb can not run away from his last name on the ballot. We may not understand why he is so strong in the polls, but the RNC does, and that is why they are not a happy bunch at this time.

everything he says would be an oops for ANYONE else (unless, as the RudePundit riffed, Trump starts talking about F'ing Ferrets)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026959715

He could come out and admit he fucks sheep, or ferrets as the case may be, and no one would so much as raise an eyebrow. Everyone already knows he's the lowest kind of shitweasel in existence who is capable of doing or saying absolutely anything.

He has no surprise or shock factor. It really is funny.

Except the monkeys are ram-fed full of meth and Red Bull.

be Jeb's VP choice?

...President and Vice President have to be from different States.

One of them could make a move to another state. Cheney lived in TX when Bush picked him. Cheney then moved to WY.

is that Florida electors can't vote for both.

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/apr/16/lawrence-odonnell/president-vice-president-same-state-allowed/

It was coming out of the Boston media market and no doubt aimed at southern NH voters.

It was a hot mess of an ad--mushy, flag waving, lots of buzzwords, fuzzy family-ish pictures, obligato minority children in quick shots, smiling people, lots of blah blah....still have no idea what his point was.

He's trying to "make an impression" ahead of the primaries. The impression I got was VAGUE and UNFOCUSED!!!

Funniest thing I ever saw at a White House Press dinner -- the very last line..."decisions that would keep me up at night"

They whole thing was delicious.

Jindal before Pataki?!

like. Didn't Obama's trend line grow up, big picture. the more people saw, the more liked him. These people have reached their peak of likability before the whole thing has even started

I guess 0% doesn't register on charts

but when the majority of them tend to back the worst offender of the group, they really shouldn't get confused when people consider the GOP the party of racists and morons.

I think anyone who supports the republicans is bad because in doing so they are backing a lot of evil actions. Many do so for the tax cuts, their own personal gain, at the expense of brutalizing the poor and bankrupting the nation. To me that is very bad indeed.

do so because they WANT to brutalize the poor, and bankrupt the nation !

Can't imagine Faux keeping this to 10 candidate limit- when Christie, friend of big business, is #11. Just glad Perry and Trump make the list as they are such loons, they will be entertaining to watch, for the short time until they implode again.

He has studied and prepared this time. Besides he has his professorial glasses.

Maybe call in the firm that did the London metro map. I think they might also have done the NYC subway map.

The only problem is that all those lines lead, as is the case with all Republicans, nowhere. Just ending up at a dead end.

non-racist candidate, at the same time pulling all the looney-bigot-fringe into the gop fold.

Donald Trump's ego. I hope the GOP party leaders piss him off enough to run on a 3rd party ticket and split the republican vote.

If it were, Bush would know to attack Trump's comments immediately; not wait two weeks.

This is Trump running to promote himself, and finding he can appeal to the real Republican voters. Nothing more.

and behave, con artist are always conspiring and scheming. So that's just normal for them. It's just going to take the rest of us, who do not think that way to not play into their Congame, cause they always have at least 1 Congame going. A Congame is a conspiracy.

He is the repug's worst nightmare... themselves in a mirror!

The Donald has ZERO chance of being elected, should he somehow bluster his way to the nomination. But that won't happen, either.

nearly 16% of likely Republican voters are really really stupid and really really racist, which is the same thing, really!