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http://www.smh.com.au/comment/tony-abbott-opposition-leader-bites-tony-abbott-pm-20140214-32r1i.html
The last paragraph was really interesting about pronunciations, that is pretty terrible isn't it?
I flicked around the radio and TV dials. No one came within a bull's roar of getting Kerobokan right, let alone the Balinese capital, Denpasar, or the resort precinct of Seminyak. For the record, it's not Ker-Robber-kan. It's Kra-BOKE-un, a light accent on the second syllable, as it generally is with Bahasa Indonesia. D'n-PAHS-ar, not DEN-pasar. I don't expect the commercial lot to get it right but you'd think the ABC might give it a go.
Nitpicking, perhaps. Yet the same reporters are aware they'd be laughed off the air if they pronounced, say, Illinois or Arkansas or Connecticut phonetically. Because it's only Indonesia, developing nation and all that, near enough is good enough. We Australians are hopelessly bad at our neighbours' languages.
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@donnashuggy wrote:What does it matter?
Because it is incorrect. If a child pronounces a word incorrectly they are generally corrected, why not politicians and newsreaders?
I'm with you donna, pronunciation might seem irrelevant, just like correct spelling etc, but language is how we communicate - maybe I'm just a stick in the mud but do we really want it to get to the point where we can no longer understand each other and speak and write in initials. (OK that may be taking the point a little far down the road but it's raining and I'm a little restless.)
and our own - Whar are you doin on sundy me and the hubs are gunna go to dha club eh - 
Yes I have been but don't really remember. I love the way the New Zealand Sky news always pronounces Maori language beautifully. Well I think they are doing it correctly.
This is poor form though for journalists, I hope his article makes them think about getting it right.
He is very shallow isn't he? I wonder what he will come out with next as a diversionary tactic?
What about the fiefighters battling the fies?
Pie Pighters battling Pies of course 
