{"id":1052,"date":"2005-04-13T20:04:20","date_gmt":"2005-04-13T19:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2005\/04\/13\/crimebotch"},"modified":"2005-04-13T20:04:20","modified_gmt":"2005-04-13T19:04:20","slug":"crimebotch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2005\/04\/13\/crimebotch","title":{"rendered":"Crimebotch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the process of watching the BBC&#8217;s Crimewatch programme which appears every month.  I couldn&#8217;t help noticing that the BBC&#8217;s presenters could not pronounce two Muslim names:  Ahmadi and Ostadzadeh.  The second, in particular, they butchered totally &#8211; something like &#8220;Ostadzedaa&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The correct pronunciations are: <strong>Ah<\/strong>-madi (the H may be strongly aspirated) and Ost<strong>ad<\/strong>-zaad&eacute;.  The first is Arabic-based, the second is Persian.<\/p>\n<p>You might think that this is a trivial complaint, but if they&#8217;re wanted for something serious, people need to know what the suspects are actually called, how they are called.  Anything ending with &#8220;zadeh&#8221; is recognisably Persian, while the presenter&#8217;s rendering wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC actually sometimes butchers very common names, including names of people who receive constant news coverage.  During the Ukrainian election coverage, people commonly mispronounced the name Yushchenko.  That shows laziness in learning about the people you&#8217;re reporting about; this may make their anti-crime campaign markedly less effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the process of watching the BBC&#8217;s Crimewatch programme which appears every month. I couldn&#8217;t help noticing that the BBC&#8217;s presenters could not pronounce two Muslim names: Ahmadi and Ostadzadeh. The second, in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-gY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}