Olympic city silliness
Is anybody else as worn out as I am by references to "Torino" in connection with the current Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy? I can understand it in an Italian language story, but it makes no sense anywhere English is being written or spoken. I suppose the whole thing is just another example of awkwardness in the name of political correctness, but when is the last time you heard "Roma" used instead of "Rome?" If you're going to use "Torino," how can you continue to use "Rome," or for that matter "Italy?"
My favorite mixed message was a report from ESPN's Lisa Salters that began "Welcome to Torino, Italy. It may not be Venice or Rome, but..." Italy...Venice...Rome? Can you say that on TV?
Complicating the issue for those who have reached my age is that any time we hear "Torino" we think of an ugly 1970's Ford.
posted by Gary Collard @ 4:29 PM
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NBC has definitely been riding shotgun on the anti-Christian bandwagon lately, but the mix of organizations who call it Turin/Torino is pretty random overall. "Daniel" was pretty embarrassing and I'm sure the Crucifixins thing will be too (did not know that they were running it before Good Friday, that's pretty transparent). You might say NBC is "proud as a peacock" of their anti-religious bigotry.
Then again, I'm going to guess that we won't be seeing any attacks on Islam on NBC. Bigotry's not quite as fun when the targets fight back.
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