Comments by "1midnightfish" (@1midnightfish) on "BBC Timestamp" channel.

  1. Those experimental archaeologists seem like a cool bunch of people... I really enjoyed watching them at work
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  2.  @helenamcginty4920  Ever heard of people - particularly highly educated people who speak in public for a living - making at least an effort to pronounce foreign words properly? Particularly the name of one of the world's best-known artists, whose work is currently being discussed.
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  3.  @helenamcginty4920  False equivalence. Londres and Germany are not mispronounced words: these are alternative names for cities and countries. Other examples are the English Rome and Florence for Roma and Firenze. Some languages also have alternative names for some fictional characters and real people from history, but the Medici family (and Michelangelo) don't have an English equivalent, and someone who is as highly educated in the subject as this guy should really make the effort to approximate the actual pronunciation of these names.
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  4. I was literally shouting that at my screen.... it HURTS
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  5.  @jujutrini8412  And as an English-speaking Italian person, that annoys me immensely. There is simply no excuse for an educated person who is speaking publicly about their specialism to continuously mispronounce key words like this guy did in the video.
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  6. @donlimoncelli6108  The fact that you had to make such an example demonstrates that this is in fact an issue. Greek and English are literally different languages, while "Medici" and "Michelangelo" are proper names that do not have a translated equivalent in other languages - so while it is indeed not illegal to mispronounce anything, it is ignorant and embarrassing for an expert to routinely mispronounce words he presumably uses a lot in the course of his work. There is also a more specific issue here, that of anglicising the pronunciation of non-English words. With the dominant role the English language plays in the world, there is something colonial about English speakers not making any effort whatsoever to pronounce foreign terminology in a way approximating the actual pronunciation, and I think that's what got so many people fired up in this thread... So I would like to thank you all for the demonstration of anglophone entitlement.
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  7.  @CaffeinatedWizard  Again, thanks for confirming that it is an issue by denying it with such irrelevant examples. That guy should know how to pronounce those words, and it's cringey that he does not.
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  8. Thank you, that honestly hurts my ears every time I hear it... only reason I'm in this comment section!
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