I'm just sayin'. There's probably been all sorts of security, she hasn't spent that much time talking to him -- I can see someone to whom the rhymes-with-tortilla pronunciation doesn't come naturally screwing it up because she hasn't heard it said that often.
I hadn't actually clicked on the link -- given that she seems to have been answering the question "How do you pronounce your client's name?", I'm wrong. I thought that the link was going to be a clip of her using his name in a discussion of the case, without the pronunciation having been addressed.
I once had a writing instructor whose last name was Najera, which she pronounced with an English j and the accent on the e. She also taught Spanish; I wonder how she pronounced it with those classes.
That would make more sense as "Throatwarbler". In the non-rhotic RP accent, the two would sound nearly identical, and the semantic distance between "throat" and "warbler" is closer than between "throat" and "wobbler".
Roses are red, violets are blue
Padilla
Can't stop getting shat upon-illa
Now you know.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 4:50 PM
May be a bad thing. Balkin's counting votes, and he might have counted wrong.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 4:55 PM
Do we know the lawyer knows how to pronounce her client's name properly?
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:16 PM
Oh come on.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:17 PM
I'm just sayin'. There's probably been all sorts of security, she hasn't spent that much time talking to him -- I can see someone to whom the rhymes-with-tortilla pronunciation doesn't come naturally screwing it up because she hasn't heard it said that often.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:20 PM
well, there's Godzilla. That isn't pronounced like tortilla.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:22 PM
do you think Godzilla's lawyer got it wrong?
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:23 PM
How should Mozilla be pronounced?
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:24 PM
I'm saying God-ZEE-uh from now on.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:24 PM
Dead!
Posted by bill gates | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:25 PM
Don't you think, given that she agreed to let a reporter record her pronouncing her client's name, that she's pretty confident she's got it right?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:25 PM
How can we be sure that Padilla is pronouncing his name correctly? Or that this surprising pronunciation isn't an Al Qaeda trick, or a code word?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:27 PM
maybe they think he's more sympathetic with a mispronounced surname.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:28 PM
12 makes a good point. Maybe it's like that Craig fellow who pronounces his name "Crayg".
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:28 PM
I hadn't actually clicked on the link -- given that she seems to have been answering the question "How do you pronounce your client's name?", I'm wrong. I thought that the link was going to be a clip of her using his name in a discussion of the case, without the pronunciation having been addressed.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:29 PM
How could it possibly be "puh-DILL-uh"? This just strikes me as wrong.
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:29 PM
Maybe they're alleging a meeting in the Philippines: Padilla in Manila.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:31 PM
Some people do pronounce their own names wrong, I guess. My brother, for one.
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:32 PM
maybe he wants to sound more vanilla.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:33 PM
General preemptive announcement: Don't start one, won't be none.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:34 PM
it's a way to actually receive civil rights.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:34 PM
I suck. That's the problem with preemption, you do it hastily and the execution is often poor, at the mineshaft.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:35 PM
I once had a writing instructor whose last name was Najera, which she pronounced with an English j and the accent on the e. She also taught Spanish; I wonder how she pronounced it with those classes.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:46 PM
Smith.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 5:46 PM
There's seems to be something missing from this thread, but it's hard to point out what.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 6:24 PM
cock.
There, now it's done.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 6:30 PM
The problem with Padilla is that the P should be silent.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 11-22-05 6:41 PM
How on earth else would you pronounce Craig?
Posted by billyfrombelfast | Link to this comment | 11-23-05 11:11 AM
This is a thing with Wolfson.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-23-05 11:13 AM
The right way, obviously.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 11-23-05 11:17 AM
This is a midwest thing. (Isn't Padilla from Chicago?) I worked with a woman in Chicago whose last name was Gallegos, pronouced Gah-LAY-gus.
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Posted by NM Dem | Link to this comment | 11-23-05 11:20 AM
That makes a lot of sense. Everyone knows about the "go-ee-thee" pronunciation of Goethe St., so why not pronounc the double-l in Spanish names?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-23-05 11:37 AM
Maybe it's pronounced "Throatwobbler Mangrove"?
Posted by My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 11-23-05 12:19 PM
That would make more sense as "Throatwarbler". In the non-rhotic RP accent, the two would sound nearly identical, and the semantic distance between "throat" and "warbler" is closer than between "throat" and "wobbler".
Posted by pdf23ds | Link to this comment | 11-23-05 3:29 PM