Alex de Tokeville

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He was so out of his league. I watch these videos and just feel bad for him. It's like watching American Idol auditions.

 

Listen to Obama's tone and feigned confidence when pronouncing this name -- he obviously has no idea who this guy is or his contribution to society. He's just reading what someone else wrote for him, as usual. But there is something to be learned here. Listen for the tone of voice, the intonation, the body language of Obama deceiving. Now, this is a mild form of deception, but it's deception nonetheless, in that Obama would like you to believe he knows what he's talking about when discussing de Tocqueville. But observing these attributes when he's deceiving enables you to know when he's trying to deceive you in the future when he repeats these tones, body language, etc. So we can learn something from this. Obama thrives on deception and manipulation and uses every trick the book to do so. It's important to know when he's doing it and when he's not.

 

Not really seeing the problem on his pronunciation, which is pretty standard for Americans saying de Tocqueville without actually adopting a french accent to say it. And, considering the butchery normally wrought upon french names in the US, this is fine.

Now that I think of it, if he did a better rendering, we'd probably have a thread about him being too cosmopolitan, like when people complained about how he said Pakistan.

 

Man! You are so smart.

 

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Why is this thread worthy?

 

I'm sorry, I should've posted the video with two Ketchup Bots. Obviously, basso takes the lead role here for posting a pointless video and FV Santiago is the smaller ketchup bot due to his rambling, talking point-riddled post that he'll never address again.

 

I can't make fun because the first time I said the name Albert Camus in a philosophy class, I said it as though he was just your average middle-American.

I even knew he was French, but somehow it never occurred to me that this would change the pronunciation of his name.

My professor had to restrain himself from face palming.

 

If you hate your neighbor, play this loop really loud. Soon that neighbor will be gone

 

Alex instead of Alexis? Ok, I'm still not seeing the big deal. Alright, I'm moving on.

 

I thought the liberals were the intellectual elitists.