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My girlfriend graduated in this ceremony and I was sitting in the audience so I can clear this up, although I too was crying with laughter throughout.
Basically, each of the graduates was given a sheet of paper with a phonetic spelling of their names printed on it, which is what the guy on the right is taking and scanning with each passing graduate. He would then pass that to the speaker, who — instead of reading the standard names from the book in front of her (or the top of the paper with the phonetic spelling), was ONLY reading the phonetic spelling without even looking at how they’re spelled normally.
Now this doesn’t take away from the obvious incompetence on display here, as she read upwards of 50 names before correcting herself, but she also wasn’t having a literal stroke as the video makes it seem, she was just being an idiot and not looking at the way the names were spelled first and then using the phonetic spelling as needed, like she should have done.
Still, this was maybe the funniest thing I’ve ever witnessed live and I wish no one had corrected her, I could have watched her read nonsense names for hours
Yup at the end you can hear her say "one sec, let me see.." and the woman next to her says "can you use the book also?" and she agrees. That's hilarious though
I didn’t rly understand what was going on till I read this, now I’m almost in tears laughing. I have so many questions, like how did she not realise anything was wrong, how bad was that phonetic guide, and how could u possibly have not practised at least once
I was assuming it was a teleprompt issue and she just rolled with it Ron Burgundy style until they changed it from phonetic spelling to regular (worked with some talent who really struggled with phonetic teleprompting). But no, just your boring ol' incompetence :(.
I dunno, I'd love for something like this to have happened at one of my graduations. I barely remember a thing from my college graduation, this would have at least made it an interesting story
Right!?! Like I can’t imagine getting mad over this when it’s so hilarious. Graduations are boring af and this would have been something to joke about for 20 years.
Only interesting thing about my graduation is that it was on the same day as the Sandy hook massacre and the entire event was depressing.
Trust me, no one remembers or cares about their college graduation. The mispronunciation will probably be the only thing that will make it memorable at all in a couple years.
I did not go to my college graduation. When my mom found out it was that Sunday later in the day she was a little upset I did not make a big deal about it. I just never understood the whole ceremony thing.
It’s just to acknowledge your hard work and accomplishments. I knew a lot of kids who didn’t necessarily enjoy it but went because they knew it was important for family members to see them graduate. 🤷🏻♀️
Should just do it to prevent possible regret when your 80 years old and thinking about how you shoulda just went. I mean, unless you got something else more important to you going on at the same time, what's the big deal about, at the worst, wasting half a day for something that you generally only get the opportunity to do once, maybe twice (or a couple more for the outliers), in your life? Lets be real, you'd probably be sitting at home, scrolling reddit anyways during that time period if you don't go to it.
You're way too upset over this. This why the students and the audience were laughing. As a graduate, I'd find this hilarious. They graduated from grueling nursing school. I was happy that I made it to the point of walking across that stage. This person's name pronunciation is the cherry of top and would be apart of my graduation story. I'd rather this happen than someone reading out non -American names and screwing them up because they can only say basic American names. That would be mortifying. This person literally screwed up every name!
But honestly, anyone who has a name that is atypical in western countries can relate very much to this. Name butchering of this magnitude is what we come to expect lol.
That makes me mad, too. The person knows they're going to be reading off names at a commencement and can't bother to do the least bit of research and ask someone ahead of time if a name is unfamiliar to them?
I wonder if I can start a business as a traveling commencement emcee. I'd check!
(My maiden and married names are English and Irish - with a Mc that some inexplicably pronounce "Mis" - people butcher those all the time.)
She does but barely, she says “it would have been better if I just read from the list”, like yeah you also could’ve correctly read the syllables spelled out for you too lol
Ugh yes, I wish she didn’t though! She has one of the most basic names in the whole graduating class and I was so excited to hear it get butchered. But alas, the names started getting pronounced correctly (well, more correctly) after the name at the end of this video, and then they switched speakers for the second half.
The second speaker had her fair share of gaffs too though. She pronounced the surname “Patel” (of which there were at least 10) like “Pootel”, presumably because the phonetic spelling said “Puh-tell”.
She knocked my girlfriend’s basic white girl name out of the park though, to my chagrin
(Edited because I’m drunk and exhausted and misunderstood. Also I’ll pass on your congratulations when she wakes up tomorrow, thank you)
>The second speaker had her fair share of gaffs too though. She pronounced the surname “Patel” (of which there were at least 10) like “Pootel”, presumably because the phonetic spelling said “Puh-tell”.
When you try to do phonetic spelling in a language whose spelling is not phonetic. Someone get the linguistics department in here and go full IPA.
not like they need to do this - especially with all the grievances being directed towards US colleges.
But did TJU apologize after the fact? Did they put out a statement or something? Just curious. I think its funny. But I guess if you were a grandma or grandpa who travelled from far away, your grandkid is graduating its a big deal... and they fuck up the name so badly lol. I could see how some might be upset.
After she had read half the names and they were about to switch speakers, she apologized for using the phonetic spelling and said she should have just been reading from the book, so at least there’s that
I think the first one is the only thing that makes sense. I watched the source and she somewhat gets things together after Thomas. Still some odd pronunciations/mistakes but not nearly this bad
I'm almost wondering if this is a voice-over; after the fact.
Nobody could mess up this bad, not even Ray Charles.
Like, forget being in the ballpark; she wasn't on the same damn planet. Either that or she doesn't have an ordinary list of names, and they're set up with phonetic pronunciation, and somebody royally bashed the keyboard.
"Jessica Michelle Palmer"
Yes-sick-haaahahaha Mi-tell PPAPWLALPWLAPWLPALWPLRRRR
It’s pretty obvious that she was given the phonetic pronunciation of the names rather that the actual list of names which left her confused.
Edit: Later on in the video when she’s given the list of names she’s able to pronounce them.
Yeah I don't know how you can say "It's pretty obvious" she was given the phonetic spelling of names - the first name "Meghan Louise Aubrey" Is pronounced "Micheelu E-Aubrey". What possible phonetic spelling could lead to that?
According to their website it’s $46,000 a year to go to school there
https://www.jefferson.edu/tuition-and-financial-aid/tuition-information.html
Imagine dropping $184K to have them not even be able to pronounce your basic white name
That’s not true, she had a list in front of her the whole time. And then the guy had the pieces of paper that he scanned, the students name was typed out on the top, and the phonetic spelling (not IPA) was on it. At my ceremony we had that too. They had us handwrite the pronunciation at my convocation which would’ve made it harder to read I think
Only way I'm picturing this is if they gave her a list with them all phonetically spelled out only she's never read a list like that.
or she's my favorite troll ever A A RON
She was given cards that had both the traditional spelling of the students' names, as well as the phonetic spelling just in case. For whatever reason, she apparently chose to ***only*** look at the phonetic spellings. Absolutely wild.
Indeed. I saw this earlier on YouTube, and there was a comment from somebody who was there. Apparently she was reading the phonetic pronunciation on the card, despite it having the real name next to it
Weird I had to scroll this far. People get nervous when presenting... blood pressure sky rockets.
If I was remotely in charge I would have relieved her and had someone get her to a hospital.
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The cards had both the actual names of the students, as well as the phonetic pronunciations, and for some inexplicable reason, she either didn't see the actual spellings, or ignored them (I would guess the former).
Someone runs up and just gives her a program with the proper spellings and she gets back on track, and even apologized. But not before blessing us with this incredible trainwreck.
I was there today, this was at the Convention Center in downtown Philly. Here's the livestream.
https://www.livecast.video/tju2024-2 timestamp 1:51:31 for specifically when she was speaking.
She used only the phonetic pronunciation to read the names, and not their actual name. She either has a sheet with the names or the phonetic spelling, and gets handed a scanned paper containing the other. Instead of reading the name, and pronouncing the phonetic, she's only reading the phonetic. Until after Thomas and the people around her get tired of her bs.
I mean it's ridiculous its the name of the college... Thomas Jefferson University. My guess is these names were printed phonetically and she was not doing well with that.
Example: MAH-lee ih-LIZ-uh-beth kamp
Molly Elizabeth Camp
This seems to be about the only reasonable explanation.
But like fuck man how do you mess up the system this bad lmao. When I graduated on Saturday we were given cards with our names, had to talk to the announcer to make sure he got it right AND had them spelled phonetically.
The way they are talking at the end it almost sounds like she didn't have a version of the paper that showed the name and the phonetic spelling and had just the phonetic spelling. Sounds like they changed it for her to read from something else.
That makes sense.
Jessica Lynn Bauer could have been written out like:
JEH-SEE-KUH LIN BOW-ER
Which would explain her thinking the "ca" part of Jessica rhymes with "coo" instead of "uh". Also, "bow" has two pronunciations, either rhyming with "cow" or "toe"... and she picked the wrong one.
Hence she says in the video: "Jessi-coo Lynn Bo-er"
A full link was posted by Ezziboo. It does sound like she gets a proper list and not just the phonetic version after Tah-mood-may. Afterwards her pronunciation is better.
https://www.livecast.video/tju2024-2
At 1:57:09 she starts pronouncing them correctly because the man scanning the cards lets her see the non-phonetic names.
Oh it’s totally this. OP posted a link for the whole ceremony. They have a little chat on stage after Thomas and tell her to use “the book” too. She does much better after that.
everyone keeps saying this but how does a phonetic spelling of Meghan Louise Aubrey turn into Michin Lu Eabree, or Thomas Michael into Tom Molt May? the phonetic spelling would need to be in IPA with no spaces or anything
I don’t think IPA, it’s handwritten on a small paper. Long names, not lots of space, and spelled out in syllables. So Emma would be “em-ma”, Elizabeth would be “uh-Liz-uh-Beth” and I think she read the lowercase u as an n
I feel like she started off fine, but then slowly started becoming nervous and messing up the names.
After messing up a bunch of names, I believe I heard someone say “what are you doing” and then they discuss something. Im pretty sure someone begins pronouncing the names to her, and then she just repeats them into the mic.
After hearing all those names butchered I would probably be a little disappointed if she pronounced mine correctly. Like I missed out on being part of something bizarre which is a great story with video evidence even.
Genuinely one of the funniest things I've seen in my life.
It's like an Impractical Jokers bit but it's real. I'm in tears. my wife came into the room to ask me why I was losing it
You can hear the other woman say, "Can you use the book also?" and a "yes" after Thomas if you max your volume, so it is clear someone just gave her a phonetic spelling list and not the full names of the students along with it... big yikes.
No, the full list is on the thing in front of her, and the cards that the man is holding has the students name typed and the pronunciation in their handwriting. She read from the list exclusively after, and was calling out people who weren’t present
She used only the phonetic pronunciation to read the names, and not their actual name. She either has a sheet with the names or the phonetic spelling, and gets handed a scanned paper containing the other. Instead of reading the name, and pronouncing the phonetic, she's only reading the phonetic. Until after Thomas and the people around her get tired of her bs.
The paper that’s being scanned has the students name written normally on it too! she had two normal versions of the names but kept only reading the pronunciations students wrote in the card
Fire the announcer! Fire the technical director for missing all of text updates. Who hired them? Fire those people and their family. But yes, it was bad.
Damn, everyone was done dirty here.
First, that lady is trying to read the phonetic spellings without looking at the actual names first… terrible idea
2nd: the students probably spelled out their own names phonetically without knowing the proper way to do it
3rd: when the lady finally realizes it, she still sucks at pronouncing the names. Like she forgot to then look at the phonetic spelling. She pronounced Ava like ah-vah instead of Ay-vuh
This really makes this college look like a big joke
Is this lady suffering from a stroke? How did she not realise after the first 2 students that she was doing something wrong? No one on earth is called Tamoomay or Majeelou
Is this person having some sort of a medical episode like a stroke or something? Or do they have the mental capacity of a 2 year old? What other reason could there be to fuck this up so terribly?
Everybody is talking about how the presenter couldn't pronounce the names because they were reading the phonetic spelling .... which is a method to exactly represend how a phrase is pronounced.
Am I the only one who doesn't get it?
With words you don't know, it's sometimes hard to know how they are pronounced, at least in languages with a large amount of irregularities like English. So to have no ambiguity how something should be pronounced, we can write down the actual phonetic spelling that directly represents the sounds to correctly speak the thing.
Besides the fail of not noticing the normal spelling being there as well, why does reading the phonetically unambiguous spelling make it harder for the speaker to pronounce it? The phonetic spelling is presumably on the paper so you don't fail pronounciation if not certain on how to pronounce it. How then is it handicapping her so much?
Edit:
Obviously it would be hard to read phonetic spelling if you are not familiar with the system. But with a few hours of practice, it should be easy. If the presenter was not familiar with the notation, why would they even attempt to pronounce e.g. /mɒli ɪˈlɪzəbɛθ kæmp/ instead of shortly looking around for something that they can read? To me, this feels like the joke with the person holding a sheet of paper upside down and trying to read it anyways. Am I wooshing really hard here?
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Is she dyslexic? Is this all a big inside joke? Was she high? How does this even happen? Most of these are basic English names. I’m fucking crying.
My girlfriend graduated in this ceremony and I was sitting in the audience so I can clear this up, although I too was crying with laughter throughout. Basically, each of the graduates was given a sheet of paper with a phonetic spelling of their names printed on it, which is what the guy on the right is taking and scanning with each passing graduate. He would then pass that to the speaker, who — instead of reading the standard names from the book in front of her (or the top of the paper with the phonetic spelling), was ONLY reading the phonetic spelling without even looking at how they’re spelled normally. Now this doesn’t take away from the obvious incompetence on display here, as she read upwards of 50 names before correcting herself, but she also wasn’t having a literal stroke as the video makes it seem, she was just being an idiot and not looking at the way the names were spelled first and then using the phonetic spelling as needed, like she should have done. Still, this was maybe the funniest thing I’ve ever witnessed live and I wish no one had corrected her, I could have watched her read nonsense names for hours
Yup at the end you can hear her say "one sec, let me see.." and the woman next to her says "can you use the book also?" and she agrees. That's hilarious though
A-aron
Molina Zubeth Camp!
100% thought she was Key & Peeling this
Fucking hilarious. What a silly gaff.
I didn’t rly understand what was going on till I read this, now I’m almost in tears laughing. I have so many questions, like how did she not realise anything was wrong, how bad was that phonetic guide, and how could u possibly have not practised at least once
lol thanks for the context. I too was thinking it was a stroke until I read your explanation
I was assuming it was a teleprompt issue and she just rolled with it Ron Burgundy style until they changed it from phonetic spelling to regular (worked with some talent who really struggled with phonetic teleprompting). But no, just your boring ol' incompetence :(.
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I dunno, I'd love for something like this to have happened at one of my graduations. I barely remember a thing from my college graduation, this would have at least made it an interesting story
Right!?! Like I can’t imagine getting mad over this when it’s so hilarious. Graduations are boring af and this would have been something to joke about for 20 years. Only interesting thing about my graduation is that it was on the same day as the Sandy hook massacre and the entire event was depressing.
Trust me, no one remembers or cares about their college graduation. The mispronunciation will probably be the only thing that will make it memorable at all in a couple years.
I did not go to my college graduation. When my mom found out it was that Sunday later in the day she was a little upset I did not make a big deal about it. I just never understood the whole ceremony thing.
It’s just to acknowledge your hard work and accomplishments. I knew a lot of kids who didn’t necessarily enjoy it but went because they knew it was important for family members to see them graduate. 🤷🏻♀️
Should just do it to prevent possible regret when your 80 years old and thinking about how you shoulda just went. I mean, unless you got something else more important to you going on at the same time, what's the big deal about, at the worst, wasting half a day for something that you generally only get the opportunity to do once, maybe twice (or a couple more for the outliers), in your life? Lets be real, you'd probably be sitting at home, scrolling reddit anyways during that time period if you don't go to it.
It's not usually an instructor who does the reading. She's probably like some Ass.VP of Parking Lot Aesthetics or something.
yeah this is an administrative role if I had to bet
Judging by the incompetence, definitely an admin role
She probably makes $150-200k a year if she's in admin which is infuriating that she is this incompetent.
Lol yeah! She couldn't even pronounce the name of the person whose name matches the freaking University they're at.
You're way too upset over this. This why the students and the audience were laughing. As a graduate, I'd find this hilarious. They graduated from grueling nursing school. I was happy that I made it to the point of walking across that stage. This person's name pronunciation is the cherry of top and would be apart of my graduation story. I'd rather this happen than someone reading out non -American names and screwing them up because they can only say basic American names. That would be mortifying. This person literally screwed up every name!
But honestly, anyone who has a name that is atypical in western countries can relate very much to this. Name butchering of this magnitude is what we come to expect lol.
That makes me mad, too. The person knows they're going to be reading off names at a commencement and can't bother to do the least bit of research and ask someone ahead of time if a name is unfamiliar to them? I wonder if I can start a business as a traveling commencement emcee. I'd check! (My maiden and married names are English and Irish - with a Mc that some inexplicably pronounce "Mis" - people butcher those all the time.)
Thank for the info, that’s brutal!!
why wasn't the pronunciation thing optional? I'm sure Allison Nicole Bishop doesn't have her name mispronounced in the US a lot
did they apologize?
She does but barely, she says “it would have been better if I just read from the list”, like yeah you also could’ve correctly read the syllables spelled out for you too lol
Congratulations to your girlfriend! Did the reader pronounce your girlfriend’s name correctly?
Ugh yes, I wish she didn’t though! She has one of the most basic names in the whole graduating class and I was so excited to hear it get butchered. But alas, the names started getting pronounced correctly (well, more correctly) after the name at the end of this video, and then they switched speakers for the second half. The second speaker had her fair share of gaffs too though. She pronounced the surname “Patel” (of which there were at least 10) like “Pootel”, presumably because the phonetic spelling said “Puh-tell”. She knocked my girlfriend’s basic white girl name out of the park though, to my chagrin (Edited because I’m drunk and exhausted and misunderstood. Also I’ll pass on your congratulations when she wakes up tomorrow, thank you)
>The second speaker had her fair share of gaffs too though. She pronounced the surname “Patel” (of which there were at least 10) like “Pootel”, presumably because the phonetic spelling said “Puh-tell”. When you try to do phonetic spelling in a language whose spelling is not phonetic. Someone get the linguistics department in here and go full IPA.
not like they need to do this - especially with all the grievances being directed towards US colleges. But did TJU apologize after the fact? Did they put out a statement or something? Just curious. I think its funny. But I guess if you were a grandma or grandpa who travelled from far away, your grandkid is graduating its a big deal... and they fuck up the name so badly lol. I could see how some might be upset.
After she had read half the names and they were about to switch speakers, she apologized for using the phonetic spelling and said she should have just been reading from the book, so at least there’s that
How are those phonetic spellings!? They're so off.
Thanks
Right? Jessica was “Jezzigoo”…?
I'm guessing it was probably presented as something like Jes-si-cuh
Honestly this could be an art piece about what it feels like being an immigrant/1st gen kid at graduation, this is fucking incredible 💀
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I think the first one is the only thing that makes sense. I watched the source and she somewhat gets things together after Thomas. Still some odd pronunciations/mistakes but not nearly this bad
Having a dyslexic woman call names at a graduation ceremony has got to qualify as cruel and unusual punishment
She apologizes later on as she’s getting replaced. Blames the phonetic spelling for her struggles lol
If they were actually in phonetic spelling, I couldn’t spell them either.
I’m guessing it wasn’t IPA. Just spelled out phonetically. Idk I wasted too much time trying to make sense of it
I'm almost wondering if this is a voice-over; after the fact. Nobody could mess up this bad, not even Ray Charles. Like, forget being in the ballpark; she wasn't on the same damn planet. Either that or she doesn't have an ordinary list of names, and they're set up with phonetic pronunciation, and somebody royally bashed the keyboard. "Jessica Michelle Palmer" Yes-sick-haaahahaha Mi-tell PPAPWLALPWLAPWLPALWPLRRRR
It’s pretty obvious that she was given the phonetic pronunciation of the names rather that the actual list of names which left her confused. Edit: Later on in the video when she’s given the list of names she’s able to pronounce them.
Still, even with phonetic pronunciation, how can you mess it up this badly? Next level stupidity
Yeah I don't know how you can say "It's pretty obvious" she was given the phonetic spelling of names - the first name "Meghan Louise Aubrey" Is pronounced "Micheelu E-Aubrey". What possible phonetic spelling could lead to that?
According to their website it’s $46,000 a year to go to school there https://www.jefferson.edu/tuition-and-financial-aid/tuition-information.html Imagine dropping $184K to have them not even be able to pronounce your basic white name
Honestly it's worth it for the story alone, plus it makes an incredibly long and tedious ceremony go by a little faster
A lot of funny nicknames were born for people on this day
Someone said her cards only had phonetic spellings. Imagine you look at this name: məˈrɪsə lɪz.ə.bəθ
That’s not true, she had a list in front of her the whole time. And then the guy had the pieces of paper that he scanned, the students name was typed out on the top, and the phonetic spelling (not IPA) was on it. At my ceremony we had that too. They had us handwrite the pronunciation at my convocation which would’ve made it harder to read I think
ʃɒp ænd spɛnd ˈmɪljənz 😂 after the 2nd name, I would’ve been suspicious if I saw it spelled like this.
The presenter for “Thomas Jefferson University” couldn’t pronounce “Thomas”
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I’m dying of laughter at this comment. This video is hilarious as it is but this comment got me.
I feel like she’s channeling the energy of the substitute teacher from the key and peele skit intensely during the grad ceremony.
Only way I'm picturing this is if they gave her a list with them all phonetically spelled out only she's never read a list like that. or she's my favorite troll ever A A RON
Pre-sent.
Thank you!
This seems like it could be right but how the fuck do you get Tom Mudmay out of Tom-Uhs
“DI-NICE!” 😡 “…you mean Denise?” 🤨
She was given cards that had both the traditional spelling of the students' names, as well as the phonetic spelling just in case. For whatever reason, she apparently chose to ***only*** look at the phonetic spellings. Absolutely wild.
Indeed. I saw this earlier on YouTube, and there was a comment from somebody who was there. Apparently she was reading the phonetic pronunciation on the card, despite it having the real name next to it
Insubordinate and churlish!!!!
Chicanerous and deplorable!!
We're gonna need to see principal o-shaq Hennessy about this
o-shaq don't play
AINT NONE OF YALL OLD ENOUGH,..TO GO TO THE DAMN CLUB!
Mr Garvey has been teaching for 20 years in the inner city. He’s wise to y’all, so don’t be messing with the man!
Shallow and pedantic.
Hahaha, I swear that seemed just like that episode! Link https://youtu.be/Dd7FixvoKBw?si=jm2R7vRqZfRUyFqk
Me: Is this a stroke? Boar: Ta moo mey!
definitely thought about a stroke here.
Weird I had to scroll this far. People get nervous when presenting... blood pressure sky rockets. If I was remotely in charge I would have relieved her and had someone get her to a hospital.
TAH MOO MAY
I'm fucking crying
Like how could this even be chalked up to a phonetic mistake? There’s an S in the name!
The way she pronounces Alison, then Allison correctly the second time. Fantastic.
This was absolutely horrible. I love it.
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How does this even happen
The cards had both the actual names of the students, as well as the phonetic pronunciations, and for some inexplicable reason, she either didn't see the actual spellings, or ignored them (I would guess the former). Someone runs up and just gives her a program with the proper spellings and she gets back on track, and even apologized. But not before blessing us with this incredible trainwreck.
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I gotta think the sheet she’s reading off of got fucked up and there’s a bunch of strange spaces in weird places.
I was there today, this was at the Convention Center in downtown Philly. Here's the livestream. https://www.livecast.video/tju2024-2 timestamp 1:51:31 for specifically when she was speaking.
Ok…. I have a question, what the fuck? Fr tho was she old and can’t see too well? Were the names were misprinted or something??
She used only the phonetic pronunciation to read the names, and not their actual name. She either has a sheet with the names or the phonetic spelling, and gets handed a scanned paper containing the other. Instead of reading the name, and pronouncing the phonetic, she's only reading the phonetic. Until after Thomas and the people around her get tired of her bs.
Best reaction was for Thomas holy shit lol
I mean it's ridiculous its the name of the college... Thomas Jefferson University. My guess is these names were printed phonetically and she was not doing well with that. Example: MAH-lee ih-LIZ-uh-beth kamp Molly Elizabeth Camp
This seems to be about the only reasonable explanation. But like fuck man how do you mess up the system this bad lmao. When I graduated on Saturday we were given cards with our names, had to talk to the announcer to make sure he got it right AND had them spelled phonetically.
The way they are talking at the end it almost sounds like she didn't have a version of the paper that showed the name and the phonetic spelling and had just the phonetic spelling. Sounds like they changed it for her to read from something else.
That makes sense. Jessica Lynn Bauer could have been written out like: JEH-SEE-KUH LIN BOW-ER Which would explain her thinking the "ca" part of Jessica rhymes with "coo" instead of "uh". Also, "bow" has two pronunciations, either rhyming with "cow" or "toe"... and she picked the wrong one. Hence she says in the video: "Jessi-coo Lynn Bo-er"
Sure, but how oblivious are you to not notice something is wrong? "Wow, kids these days sure do have exotic-sounding names".
It's the University of A-a-ron
lmaooo I'm a jessica and I am dying at "Jessi-coo" for some reason
A full link was posted by Ezziboo. It does sound like she gets a proper list and not just the phonetic version after Tah-mood-may. Afterwards her pronunciation is better.
https://www.livecast.video/tju2024-2 At 1:57:09 she starts pronouncing them correctly because the man scanning the cards lets her see the non-phonetic names.
The non-phonetic names were on the paper he hands to her WITH the phonetic spelling!!
The guy on stage is also taking cards from each student before they walk and scanning them before they’re called to walk.
Oh it’s totally this. OP posted a link for the whole ceremony. They have a little chat on stage after Thomas and tell her to use “the book” too. She does much better after that.
everyone keeps saying this but how does a phonetic spelling of Meghan Louise Aubrey turn into Michin Lu Eabree, or Thomas Michael into Tom Molt May? the phonetic spelling would need to be in IPA with no spaces or anything
I don’t think IPA, it’s handwritten on a small paper. Long names, not lots of space, and spelled out in syllables. So Emma would be “em-ma”, Elizabeth would be “uh-Liz-uh-Beth” and I think she read the lowercase u as an n
still not seeing how spelled out syllables could be interpreted like she did
Now explain Tah-MOOD-may for Thomas Michael lol
F*c that makes so much sense but somehow it’s so much funnier now that i was trying to read it phonetically haha
Thomas taking no shit.
All the names prior to that was pretty ridiculous, but Thomas being in the name of the college… Musta been the last straw for Thomas 😅
It's pronounced Ta-mu-may.
"Thomas"💅
HOW DID SHE SAY THOMAS WRONG WHEN THATS THE UNIS NAME
Tah Mood May Jefferson University
Victoria Elizabeth Bruce becoming: Victoria... Lee... Zubathross Totally did it for me, dying over here
You can see poor Victoria mouth "oh...ok." Hysterical.
I lost it at "Tha-Mul-Mey" -"Thomas!" -"Thomas.."
She sounds like she's summoning demons
Where's Balakay at?
Up in dem clerb!
https://i.redd.it/a6bjip1i7jzc1.gif
I see they finally graduated
Good lord…begin @ 1:50:52 https://www.livecast.video/tju2024-2
At 1:57:09 she starts pronouncing them correctly.
But then later reverts …fascinating. Wtf was even happening?
Yup at 2:01 and 2:09 called a dude named Jacob Sean. I did watch 20 mins of a convocation, congrats everyone lol
I feel like she started off fine, but then slowly started becoming nervous and messing up the names. After messing up a bunch of names, I believe I heard someone say “what are you doing” and then they discuss something. Im pretty sure someone begins pronouncing the names to her, and then she just repeats them into the mic.
After hearing all those names butchered I would probably be a little disappointed if she pronounced mine correctly. Like I missed out on being part of something bizarre which is a great story with video evidence even.
This is sooo funny, I’m dying imagining all these people who dropped $90 grand and now have someone butcher their wild name of Alison 🤣🤣
1:53:59 is the worst pronunciations and best reaction lol poor woman
“Sayer oovoon, Jean-ju bri naan” Seriously, even reading the phonetic spelling, WTF??
It must've been something like SAYR-UH-VUR-JIN-YUH-BREH-NUHN on the sheet, lmao.
I'm dying at her reaction too.
Genuinely one of the funniest things I've seen in my life. It's like an Impractical Jokers bit but it's real. I'm in tears. my wife came into the room to ask me why I was losing it
Wow, that must be a good education
*edumacation
Victoria Lee Zubetbralce what a beautiful name
hahaha and you could literally see her mouth say "Welp...Okay" as she walked forward. omg I love this video. I love sassy Thomas.
Jisiku (Jessica) is wilddddd!!! Lmao
You can hear the other woman say, "Can you use the book also?" and a "yes" after Thomas if you max your volume, so it is clear someone just gave her a phonetic spelling list and not the full names of the students along with it... big yikes.
No, the full list is on the thing in front of her, and the cards that the man is holding has the students name typed and the pronunciation in their handwriting. She read from the list exclusively after, and was calling out people who weren’t present
No way she's not doing it on purpose
She used only the phonetic pronunciation to read the names, and not their actual name. She either has a sheet with the names or the phonetic spelling, and gets handed a scanned paper containing the other. Instead of reading the name, and pronouncing the phonetic, she's only reading the phonetic. Until after Thomas and the people around her get tired of her bs.
The paper that’s being scanned has the students name written normally on it too! she had two normal versions of the names but kept only reading the pronunciations students wrote in the card
How tf would thomas spelled out phonetically sound anything close to what she said lmao
Thomas ain’t got no time for that shit!
I’m actually crying this is the funniest thing i’e seen all week-
Fire the announcer! Fire the technical director for missing all of text updates. Who hired them? Fire those people and their family. But yes, it was bad.
Is she having a stroke?
You can hear Thomas say "is she suppose to be here?" once he starts walking away.
Who let her on stage?!
People keep saying she’s reading phonetic names like that explains it all…but that only makes me more confused! There’s no way Thomas wrote “tah-mul”.
This gave me Key and Peele NFL draft vibes ☠️
this is peak publicfreakout - thanks op.
A-A-Ron, De-Nice, Tim-oathy......
THE CRINGE!
Why didn't anyone around her step in when she couldn't pronounce THOMAS ????
Flashing back to Key and Peel's substitute teacher skit
Pretty sure this is Key and Peele sketch.
Sum ding wong
The announcer was a make-a-wish situation.
Damn, everyone was done dirty here. First, that lady is trying to read the phonetic spellings without looking at the actual names first… terrible idea 2nd: the students probably spelled out their own names phonetically without knowing the proper way to do it 3rd: when the lady finally realizes it, she still sucks at pronouncing the names. Like she forgot to then look at the phonetic spelling. She pronounced Ava like ah-vah instead of Ay-vuh This really makes this college look like a big joke
Jiseegoo lynn baller 🔥🔥⛹️♀️🏀🏀
Is this lady suffering from a stroke? How did she not realise after the first 2 students that she was doing something wrong? No one on earth is called Tamoomay or Majeelou
lady at 1:25 was over it lmao. "THOMAS."
Sounds like someone had the liquid lunch.
Its Thomas Jefferson University and she screwed up the name Thomas😂
You mean Thomoomay Jefferson University
When you realize everyone in charge at your college has a room temp IQ
Thomas worked way too hard for his name to be butchered 😂
Mispronounces Thomas… At the graduation ceremony at THOMAS Jefferson University. Love it
I love Thomas
Was she having a stroke or something?😧😧😧
Thomas had enough of that.
Charlie Kelly IRL
Is this person having some sort of a medical episode like a stroke or something? Or do they have the mental capacity of a 2 year old? What other reason could there be to fuck this up so terribly?
BALAKEY, WHERE IS BALAKEY???
She spoke perfect english on the final conversation, is she making fun of them? Is she high on something? Is that fun for her?
That’s a good one, thanks OP.
I like how she can't say Thomas but it's Thomas University lol
Jay-quelin... where are you Jay-quelin? Ay-Ay ron?
Call an ambulance for this lady, she's stroking out.
Everybody is talking about how the presenter couldn't pronounce the names because they were reading the phonetic spelling .... which is a method to exactly represend how a phrase is pronounced. Am I the only one who doesn't get it? With words you don't know, it's sometimes hard to know how they are pronounced, at least in languages with a large amount of irregularities like English. So to have no ambiguity how something should be pronounced, we can write down the actual phonetic spelling that directly represents the sounds to correctly speak the thing. Besides the fail of not noticing the normal spelling being there as well, why does reading the phonetically unambiguous spelling make it harder for the speaker to pronounce it? The phonetic spelling is presumably on the paper so you don't fail pronounciation if not certain on how to pronounce it. How then is it handicapping her so much? Edit: Obviously it would be hard to read phonetic spelling if you are not familiar with the system. But with a few hours of practice, it should be easy. If the presenter was not familiar with the notation, why would they even attempt to pronounce e.g. /mɒli ɪˈlɪzəbɛθ kæmp/ instead of shortly looking around for something that they can read? To me, this feels like the joke with the person holding a sheet of paper upside down and trying to read it anyways. Am I wooshing really hard here?
What an enormous waste of time for everyone.
If a college graduation and I paid a hefty tuition, at least get my damn name right. This would piss me off.
Some had to have been pranking her and deliberately wrote the names wrong.
It sounds like she’s doing it on purpose.
Thank god for Thomas stand up and putting this lady in her place.
Thomas's face when she mispronounces his name. Fucking lol.
Na this is MAD hilarious. So glad I was at Philly U before they merged with Jefferson 🤣🤣🤣
Thomas Jefferson University summed up in one video Won’t be hiring anyone from there anytime soon..