[ExI] dr suess

[William Flynn Wallace]

Do the Japanese around you use elision in pronouncing their names?  Or do
they pronounce them like we do, for instance in Matsuoka we would pronounce
it with the emphasis on the o.  ?  bill w

On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 7:55 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> Perhaps you have heard that Dr. Seuss is the next one in the crosshairs of
> cancel culture.  Personal insight on that: in 2014 our local superintendent
> was going around to the elementary schools for Dr. Seuss day, doing
> readings and such.  He chose “If I Ran the Zoo.”  In that book, he
> encountered the comment “…as helpers who all wear their eyes at a slant…”
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> Oops.
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> The superintendent wasn’t aware that was in there, nor were we.  Most of
> the students in that school are Asian.  The Superintendent = Cary Matsuoka.
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> spike
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