University graduation MC brutally mispronounces student names | Dan Abrams Live
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- A graduation speaker at Thomas Jefferson University's commencement ceremony for nursing students mispronounced multiple common names including Thomas, Jessica and Allison. The university apologized and confirmed the speaker only received the phonetic spellings of the names. NewsNation’s Dan Abrams asks, “What were they thinking?”
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Imagine getting your diploma from someone who can't read!!!!!
It was on purpose
DEI
This is why Liberalism is insane. What you have here is simply equity and diversity, not MERRITT....
This is a perfect example of diversity or equity, not (merit). EMBARRASSING
She was following directions. Like to see her textbooks after her professor suggest student highlight
Who did they have? Someone who can't speak English correctly?
DEI
She did it on purpose
I believe she was just stupid.
The irony of an illiterate reading out the graduation names for a college is (chef's kiss)
Makes me wonder if they can read
Sounds like an impediment
Yeah, no.
Sounds like they didn't get a qualified person for the simple task of reading common names.
I gotta say, this is awesome. Better than those long, useless, fun-less, dizzying speeches at graduations.
Tahmoomay here. Whaddyamean noone's named so???
Announcer sounds like Biden's younger sister.
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, POLICE OFFICERS AND FIREFIGHTERS HAVE HAD TO DEAL WITH IT FOR YEARS.
my boy Thomas
Timmmaaaayyyy
A-aron huh? 😅
the best part is that the school name is Thomas Jefferson University, and she can't even pronounce Thomas right!
Thomas? You mean Tomome
A-A-Ron? Is A-A-Ron here?
Totally 😂
Ladies and gentlemen: The next President of Harvard University.
100%
It took 6 minutes for them to stop! That's the problem. People need to have a backbone and stop the craziness. Really even 6 names were too many!
Maybe hire an English speaker?
💯!!
And an EDUCAYED one too
DEI strikes again...
Oh, the Liberals can't have that. It goes against their insane diversity or equity narrative. Do you mean hiring off of merit makes more sense? Who'd have thought it? 🤔
She blatt
The "unfortunate error" absolutely does reflect the attitude of the school towards their graduates.
I wouldn't send my dog to the school...
there you have your diversity
@@jenscheibner792Your dog doesn’t need “that school.” Dogs are brilliant if you understand their behavior, language. I get them. I just don’t get these people
Who vetted the announcer needs to be fired, I hope the announcer was not educated at this university, what an advertisement for this school of learning!!!!
I learned elsewhere that she has a master degree from another university in the U.S. and that English is her first language.
@@waynebollman what's the name?
What could explain this....a speech impediment or a learning disability ? I don't wish to jump to harsh conclusions before knowing all the facts. Some people do have difficulties speaking for various reasons, including partial or complete deafness.
The announcer wasn't doing this on purpose or for a public stunt. She was given name cards that were in phonetics and ONLY phonetics. For example, the name "stephanie" would look like "stef-uh-nee".
man the regret in their eyes, they just paid 200k for a degree from a bunch of people who can't even pronounce english names.
welcome to america
😆😆😆👍
@@lunarlight3131 And it's only going to get worse.
Thought they were celebrating the Key and Peele skit
That was my first thought too! ua-cam.com/video/Dd7FixvoKBw/v-deo.htmlsi=X6jOh8iOs8FaiaTH&t=19
When key and peele substitute teacher skit comes to life.... 😂😂😂😂😂
I actually feel bad for the students who worked hard to graduate from university, only to have their name butchered the way she did or be part of a joke she thought was funny. She shouldn't have been hired to call out the names.
Ridiculous, what a disgrace.
Who was the speaker? Whats their ethnic background?
DEI
They sound AA to me.
Exactly what you expect
College educated american. Obviously.
Who the heck can’t pronounce Thomas…at Thomas Jefferson university?
DEI
DEI grifters
Is this being done on purpose!?!
I thought that at first but the university put out a serious apology so it wasn't a skit or a joke. This lady learned to read in a public school where she was taught to memorize words without learning the letters or their sounds. This makes it very hard to read names because they are words you don't see everyday and might not have memorized. It was only a matter of time until these early 2000s kids grew into adults and now here we are... 30% of highschool graduates now-a-days only read at a 1st grade level... I know a teacher who says her special ed students from 20 years ago performed better in every subject than her regular students do today, plus all honor classes were removed from the district in the name of DEI.
Common Core education is a disaster.
Who's idea was it to pronounce the graduates' names in a messed up way intentionally? I smell a publicity stunt for viral video
She butchered the most common names. Definitely on purpose 😂
@@doxoxo779 That's what I thought at first too until the university put out an apology.
That's what I thought (it was intentional). Her accent sounds like very western, not Indian, Chinese or any other distinctive accent... still these are very common names, hard to believe someone who works @ university (no matter what background) never heard of them or have hard time pronouncing them.
I swear it sounded like she tried to hold back a chuckle a couple of times 😂
@@3abbosi It has been confirmed that her first language is english and that she is a college graduate....... who cannot read with or without phonetic spellings right beneath the actual words.
When educators are not even EDUCATED to read... SMH...
DEI
It was a long time coming. I saw the warning signs with "common core". Then by 10-15 years ago a point of no return had been reached and in such a way where there can be no doubt it was purposeful. Now all one needs to do to see what that purpose was, and then learn what happens next, is go research "Mao's cultural revolution".
This might be a funny video but it also speaks volumes. I hope this help more people see what's actually going on behind the scenes here that lead to this.
Who needs a phonetic spelling for "Thomas" or "Jessica"?
Someone who is completely or near completely illiterate.
@@waynebollman Or possibly someone who is trying to mock and humiliate American, and more particularly Caucasian, students.
@@waynebollmanOr possibly someone who is intentionally mocking and trying to humiliate American (and more particularly Caucasian) students.
Lolo where I live, many pronounce Jessica Yessica, so 🤷🏻♂️😂
@@ryanyuk Nobody cares where you live.
What in the world? I would be pissed if that were my child going to get their diploma.
I have been in that situation where I was the one responsible for announcing the students' names as they walked up to get their degrees. Long before the graduation date I asked for a list of names. For names that I was unsure of the pronunciation, I contacted students directly to make sure I would pronounce their name correctly. I practiced that list for over a month before graduation. My belief: Students had an investment in that college/university, and the least we could do for them on their special day was to pronounce their full name correctly.
Exactly, this is a big moment for them (or should have been) This woman made a mockery of the ceremony
Exactly! Contact the students directly to get the correct pronunciation. OMG Poor kids and their families. I wouldn't want to tell anyone I graduated from Thomas Jefferson University after this. 😮
@@DavidCox3521 Three years ago we attended the graduation of a grandchild.
The person reading the names of the graduates made no effort even to try to pronounce the students' names correctly.
One young man actually grabbed the mic and said, "You took my money but can't even be bothered to say my name correctly.
We're nothing to you but a fat paycheck."
He screamed his name into the mic while the audience cheered.
@@FlexibleFlyer50 Good for him... Thomas did try to correct her...
This is absolutely disgusting
No it’s hilarious
I would have replaced her immediately after she mispronounced the first graduates name INCORRECTLY. What was she thinking if not thinking @ all. This goes for the faculty also. Don’t find this to be humorous @ all. Time to go back to school lady & get learned.
This had to be a setup. Someone most of passed a fake list of names, sounded out differently, just like the, San Fran Airport crash and news report names of the airline crew which were a joke!
I've been a PA announcer at sports events and an emcee at various large functions. I always scan the list of people's names in advance to see if there's any possible doubt about pronunciations and ask what is the correct way to say them well before I turn on the microphone. It's common courtesy. This woman obviously could not care less about accuracy.
Someone has to have pranked the announcer... right? It's one thing to mispronounce some syllables, and another to not know where the first name ends and the middle name begins.
This diploma must be as valuable as used toilet paper. Couldn't someone on the staff stop this woman and have someone replace her that could read? Shalom
100%
It was done on purpose
I really thought is was done on purpose, some sort of sinister joke, or a protest of some kind.
Could not have written it funnier on SNL
Key and Peele skit, look it up...
An absolute disgrace. I feel it was somewhat intentional.
You had one job 😂💀 Poor kids.
No one tried to stop her or correct the problem!!!! Even Worse...
This was intentionally done. She should be fired.
They can't read ? Is it a joke ???
I believe Adele Dazeem was part of this graduating class. Congrats, girl!
Somebody didn’t pass phonetics.
And apparently she must’ve never used a dictionary before,
I thought the announcer was having a stroke. Is she from a foreign country? Can someone explain WTF is happening?
DEI is a hell of a drug.
If she didn't have to say a bunch of bizarre Foreigners' names. She wouldn't have got all tongue-tied on the rest of them. Unless she's doing it on purpose, because He doesn't belong in that country either.
Ta Moo May Jeff Re Soon University must be proud.
Stupidity control
This is such a show of disrespect to the graduates. Whoever hired this announcer needs to get their head checked.
She did the Key and Peele skit
Devastating for students
and parents...
😂 it's not funny, but it's also funny af. Why is it always funnier when you are supposed to be serious.
the college will be sued for replacing her with someone that could read.
Dislexia or a foreigner
Neither should be have entrusted to read the names 🤦🏻♀️ what a disgrace
sounds Spanish@@AB-mx1de
Wait Wait Don’t Tell me did a bit on this. They played what she said, and asked “can you guess what the actual name is?” It was hilarious.
Who is the announcer? why do they not show who did this?
Thats DEI for you
100%
Wtf 😳
DEI hires all around us.
Even if all the names were written out phonetically for the reader, they wouldn't ALL be that badly translated. Unless they used AI to generate the pronunciation?
DEI hire strikes again. 👏
I would have stopped in my track and said that is notmy name! White guilt is a hell of a drug.
they only mispronounced the white names
Do you have a link to the full video? (sincerely asking). She may have mispronounced other names too but they edited the video to only show the 'white' names since everyone basically knows how to pronounce it correct in US (so the mistake is more glaringly obvious). Regardless they should never have hired that announcer.
Is t DEI fantastic?
It's as if Biden was reading the names.
WTF?
Way to go Thomas
Thanks for spending tens of thousands of dollars with us, here’s how much respect we have for you! I would have stopped in the middle of the stage, grabbed my diploma, and turned to the crowd and SCREAMED my name properly.
For real!
DEI is hilarious
if its in phonetics, the lady is doing such a bad job at reading them. i would like to see the apology video.
How did these students keep it together??!!😂😁
This was a joke right?!?!
phonetic spellings?? Is she illiterate?
Is she just hateful???
I don’t understand. What is the reason behind this? Did the announcer have a neurological problem? I don’t mean this in a mean way at all, I genuinely want to understand how this happened
DEI is how it happened.
the cards had below the names some unhelpful phonetic spellings & she was reading those
@@hya2in8 thank you, I was so curious to know
EDI gone awry
no, DEI going exactly as predicted
Jordan and Peel come true again.
This is what happens when you DEI hire. You'd think she would practice at home... All credibility is lost to Thomas Jefferson University & it's graduates.. I'm sorry. These students probably deserve better.
How rude
Why am I awake (so late) seeking these out, and laughing so hard? 😂😅
Even if this was phonetically spelled, the names were phonetically spelled so horribly wrong it's no wonder she messed up! But if she can't read names, why in the world was she even made announcer in the first place?! Ridiculous! The university should be ashamed of themselves.
I was waiting for Ashton Kutcher to jump out and tell them they'd been punked. Then I realized, most of them would have responded with, "Who??"
this is DEI in action!!!
DEI in action. Nice.
DEI hire?
I like how she didnt face any difficulty pronouncing the last names but struggled on pretty normal first names.
I need to see who is reading the names. I want to see. They won’t show us!
Insubordinate. And churlish!
Could have pronounced names like Shaniqua perfectly
Mr Garvey : Finally a worthy opponent
Wooot a foookeeng eeedeeoot.
D Nice? No D Nice here today huh?
DEI announcer.
😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣This presenter was probably high as a kite🪁
Thomas is the man
Bro im dead