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Posted: 5/2/2011 8:15:38 AM EDT
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Hell of a thread you got here, OP.
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Posted: 5/2/2011 8:15:43 AM EDT
[#2]
It's how he learned to pronounce it when he went over there on a passport that wasn't issued by the United States.
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Posted: 5/2/2011 8:20:09 AM EDT
[#3]
Also, that's definitely the correct way to pronounce Pakistan (I'm from India, that's how everyone in the region pronounces it). Pack-e-stan is just incorrect, sorry.
ETA: Glad to see that the usual educated responses are filtering in 
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Posted: 5/2/2011 8:21:04 AM EDT
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It's apparently impolite to ask about that.
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Posted: 5/2/2011 8:21:48 AM EDT
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Quoted:
It's how he learned to pronounce it when he went over there on a passport that wasn't issued by the United States. |
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Posted: 5/2/2011 8:25:12 AM EDT
[#6]
That is how a Muslim pronounces the word....
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Posted: 5/2/2011 8:27:51 AM EDT
[#7]
Our president is retarded.
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Posted: 5/2/2011 8:28:14 AM EDT
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And Iraq isn't "eye-RACK." It's "ear-ROCK."
But then again, we Americans can't even get the pronunciation of Iowa and Missouri right. 
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Posted: 5/2/2011 8:28:50 AM EDT
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That is how a Muslim pronounces the word.... +1 |
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Posted: 5/2/2011 8:32:39 AM EDT
[#10]
Does it really matter? Nuclear, nuculuar; Paahkeeston, Packistan.
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Posted: 5/2/2011 8:33:13 AM EDT
[#11]
FWIW, my Economics professor in college was a cousin of the late Benazir Bhutto, former PM of Pakistan, and he pronounces it the same way as BHO.
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Posted: 5/2/2011 8:35:37 AM EDT
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Quoted: Its just bizarre isn't it? His roommates at Occidental College were Pakistani (as in, they lived there). He probably learned it from them. He visited Pakistan on an unexplained trip during a period of US-Pakistan tension (1981 - the year he transferred from Occidental to Columbia) when US citizens were barred from travel to Pakistan and the Pakistani authorities were supposedly not admitting Americans on US passports. He visited his college roommate. He spent three weeks. It appears that it was possible to visit on a US passport by getting a visa in India at a border crossing. His college roommate's influential family might have pulled strings. |
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Posted: 5/2/2011 8:37:10 AM EDT
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Quoted:
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Its just bizarre isn't it? His roommates at Occidental College were Pakistani (as in, they lived there). He probably learned it from them. He visited Pakistan on an unexplained trip during a period of US-Pakistan tension (1981 - the year he transferred from Occidental to Columbia) when US citizens were barred from travel to Pakistan and the Pakistani authorities were supposedly not admitting Americans on US passports. He visited his college roommate. He spent three weeks. It appears that it was possible to visit on a US passport by getting a visa in India at a border crossing. His college roommate's influential family might have pulled strings. It's also possible he had an Indonesian passport at the time, considering he was adopted by his Indonesian step-father. |
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Posted: 5/2/2011 8:39:48 AM EDT
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I have a Christain client from Pakistan. He pronounces it "Pock-e-stan". Says he hated it there.
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Posted: 5/2/2011 9:12:24 AM EDT
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Quoted: I have a Christain client from Pakistan. He pronounces it "Pock-e-stan". Says he hated it there. Yeah but our president isn't from Pakistan, he's from Kenya. Why does he go out of his way to pronounce it that way? |
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Posted: 5/2/2011 9:20:15 AM EDT
[#16]
Indonesian accent?
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Posted: 5/2/2011 9:20:16 AM EDT
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Quoted:
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Its just bizarre isn't it? His roommates at Occidental College were Pakistani (as in, they lived there). He probably learned it from them. He visited Pakistan on an unexplained trip during a period of US-Pakistan tension (1981 - the year he transferred from Occidental to Columbia) when US citizens were barred from travel to Pakistan and the Pakistani authorities were supposedly not admitting Americans on US passports. He visited his college roommate. He spent three weeks. It appears that it was possible to visit on a US passport by getting a visa in India at a border crossing. His college roommate's influential family might have pulled strings. No. This is a false internet rumor with no basis in reality. The US State Department issued travel warnings during the 80s about Pakistan. At no point were US citizen actually prevented from traveling to Pakistan on US passports, either by the US or by Pakistan. |
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Posted: 5/2/2011 9:36:51 AM EDT
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Its just bizarre isn't it? only to racists.
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Posted: 5/2/2011 9:57:46 AM EDT
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"Dat big-eared, brown feller on da TV der don't be soundin' like me and mah peoples. He done talks funny!"
 I'll trust the Ivy-leaguer who used to lived in Pakistan and Indonesia regarding his pronunciation of the name. He may not be a good president, and he may be downright dangerous to us economically. Fact is, he might even be presiding over the very economic decisions that spell our downfall! Hurray! However, the motherfucker knows how to pronounce "Pakistan." |
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Posted: 5/2/2011 9:59:53 AM EDT
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And Iraq isn't "eye-RACK." It's "ear-ROCK." But then again, we Americans can't even get the pronunciation of Iowa and Missouri right. eye-oh-wah? miss-ery? |
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Posted: 5/2/2011 10:01:05 AM EDT
[#21]
Pock-E-ston.
That's the way they spell it on Barry's teleprompter. 
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Posted: 5/2/2011 10:01:27 AM EDT
[#22]
It's like how non-Texans don't know how to pronounce 'the Brazos River'.
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Posted: 5/2/2011 10:03:10 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/2/2011 10:08:32 AM EDT
[#24]
He pronounces Pakistan correctly and then fucks up the word Navy Corpsman 3 times in the same speak.
Tells you something. |
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Posted: 5/2/2011 10:23:44 AM EDT
[#25]
Doesn't bother me as much as news people who pronounce Spanish names and locations with the accent.
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Posted: 5/2/2011 10:33:38 AM EDT
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And Iraq isn't "eye-RACK." It's "ear-ROCK." But then again, we Americans can't even get the pronunciation of Iowa and Missouri right. Mizurah! Actually....I've never heard someone screw up the pronunciation of Iowa.....Des Moines is another story. |
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Posted: 5/2/2011 10:34:26 AM EDT
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He pronounces Pakistan correctly and then fucks up the word Navy Corpsman 3 times in the same speak. Tells you something. That's what I was gonna say. |
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Posted: 5/2/2011 10:37:44 AM EDT
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I call it "Fudge-Pack-iss-tan."
Fuck 'em. |
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Posted: 5/2/2011 10:57:08 AM EDT
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Let me be the first to dupe you
http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=1180051 18 hours into the whole "Osama is Dead" frenzy, and you guys should know by now that almost every topic you might think of has already been covered. |
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Posted: 5/2/2011 11:31:44 AM EDT
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obama is a moranic douchebag
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Posted: 5/2/2011 11:41:28 AM EDT
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doop-o-matic
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