Buttigieg 2020
Related: About this forumRon Perlman - The five stages of Buttigieg
The 5 stages of @PeteButtigieg
1. Who?
2. South Bend?
3. What did he say?
4. Rhodes Scholar, war hero, openly gay, supremely American.
5. Pitch perfect, innovative, brilliant, inspirational.
I’m evolving...
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True Dough
(21,464 posts)that includes "how do you say his name?" That stage was inevitable and it's not over yet because there are still large segments of the population that haven't been Pete-ucated. But I get tired of people stumbling over his name. I don't know how he doesn't!
IndyOp
(15,719 posts)Announcing his candidacy last Sunday he mentioned wondering as a teenager whether his name would be stumbling block for the rest of his life. 😀
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honeylady
(159 posts)patricia92243
(12,898 posts)we will look back and think "why was that so hard?"
If we as a nation can say "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" without a blink of an eyelash, Buttigieg will be a snap.
IndyOp
(15,719 posts)For weeks I practiced boot-edge-edge, but it didn’t come naturally unless I visualized the phonetic spelling while I said it.
And now - just as you said I can’t understand why I had such trouble with it.