tony barnert

While I love your show, and never miss it, I have a trivial suggestion regarding language—in particular the pronunciation of places. For example, some of your people pronounce “Afghanistan” with the guttural representation of “fgh” appropriate to that language. Similarly, “Pakistan” is pronounced differently than, say, the way Judy and Geoff say it. The point is, this is not simply an affectation, but also an error—one does not pronounce “France” with an “a” like the way the French say it; or “Cuba” as “Cooba,” the way the Cubans say it. It is not an issue of a mark of kinship or affinity, but simply wrong.