I can't believe they gave her a phonetic spelling list. Reading phonetic names quickly, back to back and on the spot would be the worst thing ever.

@p-__

19 күн бұрын

My farts are better than Charlie's farts

@spaceface124

19 күн бұрын

I can't believe she got only a phonetic list and still went through with the assignment. Maybe should have asked for a copy of the program instead

@Tune33338

19 күн бұрын

she got the british pronunciation too

@ScreamingMouse-qe3ti

19 күн бұрын

This seems like such a bad way to handle things. My school had the Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages read out the names to minimize the chances of butchering them.

@Lee-fw5bd

19 күн бұрын

new public speaking nightmare unlocked

Who the fuck thought it was a brilliant idea to just hand her the phonetics without their actual name? I feel so bad for her, and it's honestly not her fault.

@p-__

19 күн бұрын

My farts are better than Charlie's farts

@FlutistantLamb

19 күн бұрын

I agree

@cray8on

19 күн бұрын

Don’t know about u but if I was her and saw those bullshit cards, I’d immediately leave. I’m not going to ruin the ceremony and embarrass myself. She objectively has some blame

@Thund3rDrag0n12

19 күн бұрын

​@@cray8onshe's just doing her job and working with what she was given. If she just walked away she'd most likely be fired

@Gatherway-Duo

19 күн бұрын

The plan was probably for it to be a list of the names spelled normally + the phonetics, but whoever was in charge of preparing the document SOMEHOW managed to produce a list that contained only the phonetics, which means that they took it all the way from whatever office it was printed from to the stage without a single person taking one moment to glance at it and make sure everything was in order. Truly incredible.

I would have literally announced it in the booth. “Apologues students, but whoever typed this list for me misspelled all your names.”

@RayMan208

18 күн бұрын

I can't tell if you're making a joke or simply don't know how to spell "apologies" correctly.

@SheriffBurrito

17 күн бұрын

@@RayMan208clearly a typo.

@RealCoolstriker64

17 күн бұрын

@@SheriffBurrito a very ironic typo

@KenseiAo

17 күн бұрын

@@RealCoolstriker64sometimes autocorrect changes words when you don’t want it to and sometimes it just says “fuck it, idk wtf you are trying to spell” even though I think it should be obvious 😂

@gay4pay882

16 күн бұрын

@@KenseiAorookie mistake to be using autocorrect in the first place.

My college had a great system. Right before walking the stage, you would say your name into a closed loop mic that only the presenter could hear. He would then immediately repeat what you said into the mic for the auditorium to hear as you walked onto the stage. This eliminated issues with reading the names or memorizing anything. You could also give him preferred names and middle names if you wanted.

@saltiestsiren

18 күн бұрын

That's so smart!

@ruigerd

18 күн бұрын

So nobody told their name was xXxUberHaxor69xXx in the mic,

@Stinger913

17 күн бұрын

Wow. Makes me appreciate the system my college used. This isn’t even the best practice. Best practice as my uni did is to have all students record their name pronunciation weeks beforehand and the announcer prerecords the names. It’s phonetic but you are literally giving them the pronunciation of your name and spelling online while also saying a voice clip of it yourself. Then as you go up you just scan a barcode and the recording plays as you walk across. All automatic, no live announced needed necessarily. Though I recall there being one I imagine as a backup and for the few people who didn’t do this process. But it really should’ve been prerecorded even if it’s a small college. I’m 90% sure we could check how their recording sounded too online, so if it don’t sound right you can tell them. 😂

@tennisontower8003

17 күн бұрын

@@Stinger913 I actually prefer the way my school did it. I didnt have to go through the trouble of getting my name recorded correctly during finals. Plus, the commencement gowns had nowhere to hold anything, including a phone or printed barcode. Putting something into my pockets underneath wasnt a quick or graceful process, and many female classmates didnt have any pockets at all. During the stage walk, you used both hands to hold the diploma and shake hands with the dean. It is also simpler technologically, which can be less confusing overall

@thejackbox

17 күн бұрын

Mine did the same thing. Texas A&M University.

Never once has Thomas had his name mispronounced before until now

@JayIsOkay420

19 күн бұрын

Hoe may! Hoe may are you here

@hahnie490

19 күн бұрын

@MalecUTTP npc

@BJGvideos

19 күн бұрын

Might have gotten "Tomas" a few times, with the emphasis on the second syllable. But that's still a real name that real people have.

@p-__

19 күн бұрын

My farts are better than Charlie's farts

@stephengrigg5988

19 күн бұрын

It's the name of their damn school 😂😂

This has to have felt like some kind of nightmare for this woman. I can't imagine being given a card with phonetic spelling without foreknowledge. What a blunder, man.

@p-__

19 күн бұрын

My farts are better than Charlie's farts

@LynnLyns

19 күн бұрын

frfr i hate phonetics spelling

@ukitkatcello6306

19 күн бұрын

While they can be useful, goodness, not during a high-pressure situation where you need to be able to actually read the word

@luiginumbers6268

19 күн бұрын

@@ukitkatcello6306they’re good when you have the actual name there as well as a point of reference

@meowateyourchips7417

19 күн бұрын

The cards had the actual name along with phonetics that were in plain English and not IPA.

“zoobat pale” is a wild Pokémon

@HaliaxOfTheChandrian

19 күн бұрын

To be fair, most pokemon are wild pokemon :p

@acuteangina705

18 күн бұрын

With a weakness to Prank Video-types

@RyTheGuy713

18 күн бұрын

Is that some sort of shiny variation I haven’t heard about yet

@blueseaslug9068

17 күн бұрын

Shiny zoobat 🤩

@RonofArr

17 күн бұрын

I'd drink a beer named that

I graduated last year and they forgot my diploma. Literally. They were calling up each graduate for English philology (my major) and i was waiting for my name and suddenly they were like "and now Spanish philology ". Luckily our professor was handing them out and she saw how confused I was and came to me. She got pissed, went downstairs for a bit and came back with my diploma. I tend to say that they left the best for last. ✨️✨️

@Dragoneye2427

18 күн бұрын

I've got a crazier story from when I graduated community college last year: We had a disabled guy on a wheelchair who was told during the practice ceremony that he would have a certified helper escort him up to the podium on graduation day. Well, on graduation day, that guy is nowhere to be found, so when they call up his name, there is an awkward silence until someone finally escorts the poor man himself, and the crowd solemnly claps.

@dkznikolaj7013

18 күн бұрын

I tried the opposite. i dont remember why, but i thought i wouldnt get a diploma thing cause of some choice i made, so iwas just watching the rest of it, and suddenly my name got called really fucking strange times.

@danielhanna19

18 күн бұрын

How did that even happen

@sporeham1674

18 күн бұрын

@@danielhanna19 Human error

@AmusedCoffee-ym3gb

18 күн бұрын

They forgot you. You weren't even last.

Not being able to say “Thomas” while also being at “Thomas Jefferson” is diabolical 😂

@DontReadMyPicture478

19 күн бұрын

Don’t Translate! อย่าอ่านชื่อฉันนะ…

@moze_-

19 күн бұрын

These bots are wild bro, but yeah absolutely lmao.

@Mat7920H

19 күн бұрын

Many people (like myself) like to read off the names' pronunciations through their normal spelling. Not everyone can read phonetic spelling.

@pixlyJolt

19 күн бұрын

@@moze_-ngl the first one almost got me, I’m ashamed to admit

@nymphmythic454

19 күн бұрын

Beat me to it

This is literally that key and Peele bit

@JayIsOkay420

19 күн бұрын

Holy shit you’re right 😂😂 daquandafadus the third

@p-__

19 күн бұрын

My farts are better than Charlie's farts

@Doofy138

19 күн бұрын

penguinz0 needs to stop! He needs to take a break or retire! 😂 I make better content..

@tusk.fish09

19 күн бұрын

These replies are so horrible oh my god

@rickmont1613

19 күн бұрын

@@tusk.fish09 I only see bots in Charlie's comments for some reason

"Where do you work?" "I work at TA MU MAY - JAY FA FUSO University"

@3dness449

12 күн бұрын

😂 😂😂 The most underated commet. Super honest.

She read that shit like she was trying to say a legend of Zelda shrine out loud

@PiraticOctopus

17 күн бұрын

Tah Mu May Shrine 😂

@bmacthecat

16 күн бұрын

Tbf Zelda shrines are pretty easy Lakna rokee Ha damahar Oman au Ta’loh naeg All pretty easy if you think for 1 second

@TheGoldenDunsparce

15 күн бұрын

​@@bmacthecat Lack nah rookie Ha! Damn harr Omen awooo Teh long neck Nailed it!

@ghost-husband

12 күн бұрын

Lmao, why is that so accurate

For those that don’t know. The IPA transcription of Thomas looks like /tɔməs/ Edit: I didn’t realize they meant they broke it down by syllable pronunciation not phonetic transcriptions, welcome to IPA tho

@coleeckert6182

19 күн бұрын

While confusing for people who've never seen all of the IPA characters, I'm dumbfounded how she got some of these pronounciations. Tomamay? How does tɔməs become tomamay?

@water1987

19 күн бұрын

@@coleeckert6182she was stuttering

@twat3789

19 күн бұрын

⁠​⁠@@coleeckert6182try reading that live in front of a tonne of people having never seen half those characters before, you’d probably stutter a bunch too. She didn’t say Tomamay, she said Tom-mu-mes, because when she got to the latter half and was uncertain, so she tried again. The mu bit is her first attempt, mes is her second. Alternatively, based off how she was pronouncing the other names, it sounds like they weren’t spaced properly. Thomas Micheal would have been written out something lile to-mɑs-mɪ-xaɛl, which could fairly easily be read to sound like to-mu-may since you have literally nothing to go off

@meowateyourchips7417

19 күн бұрын

The actual name was on the cards. The phonetics were not IPA that requires people to learn it first and it was just spelled in plain English like SAIR-uh vuhr-JIHN-yuh BREH-nuhn. The picture of the card can be found in the article by washington post's article.

@RouxLioux

19 күн бұрын

Oh, so Thomas

A list of graduates, entirely in phonetics, is wild. Whoever gave that to her is the epitome of incompetent.

@SomaCruz500

19 күн бұрын

It’s almost like they set her up. Don’t wanna put that idea out there, but that sounds like a purposeful recipe for disaster.

@meowateyourchips7417

19 күн бұрын

The actual name was on the cards. The phonetics were not IPA that requires people to learn it first and it was just spelled in plain English like SAIR-uh vuhr-JIHN-yuh BREH-nuhn. The picture of the card can be found in the article by washington post's article.

@effmltalks

19 күн бұрын

So then how/why did she fuck up so bad? 😂 ​@meowateyourchips7417

@aregulargenericname8794

19 күн бұрын

​@effmltalks Stress or She's dumb

@Ilivedbih

19 күн бұрын

​@@meowateyourchips7417 That was a lie lol, there were ONLY the names in phonetics. Again, that was a spread lie, don't know why ppl keep spreading it.

They should make the list public so we can try at home like a fun little game.

The fact that she had the phonetic spelling AND the regular spelling is what gets me. A graduate from the school posted a picture of it and it has both spellings. You would of thought she would of started reading the regular spelling but I guess not lmao

@Raven-bz8kl

11 күн бұрын

exactly thats what confused me too she had both phonetic and regular- I have no clue what she actually did 💀💀

@drakeisaskinwalker5104

Күн бұрын

Everyone else seems to think she only had the phonetic spelling. Where did u see that Tik tok?

Where's A-Aaron at !?

@darcidious99

19 күн бұрын

U-um actually, its Aaron sir

@christopherchilaka6009

19 күн бұрын

It's Aaron

@sky2highvyonder595

19 күн бұрын

YOU DONE MESSED UP A-AARON

@BigA207

19 күн бұрын

Hey

@aaronpare1853

19 күн бұрын

I'm here

Imagine showing up to a reading competition and your opponent suggests the names are only written in phonetics.

@CasualCat64

19 күн бұрын

I’d be fine since I have an iq more than 5. How do you mess up Thomas and Sarah even in phonetics it’s easy. Especially for someone who’s supposed to be a professor. Embarrassing.

@zeroghost115

19 күн бұрын

​@@CasualCat64ok redditor

@nebulisnoobis102

19 күн бұрын

@@CasualCat64…have you seen phonetics?

@43021

19 күн бұрын

@@CasualCat64 / ʃʌt ʌp /

@CasualCat64

19 күн бұрын

@@nebulisnoobis102 …have you seen the cards? They did not use IPA. Sarah was simply “Sare-uh” and things like that. Don’t defend this tool especially since the normal name was present above in bold.

She seems to be (sometimes) combining the first name with the first syllable of the next name. Hence, Marissa Lynn = Marisilin Allison Nicole = Allisuna Cole Also seems like the card sometimes represents the schwa as a u or uh, which she then pronounces 'oo' So we get Allison Nicole = Allisoona Cole (not sure why the 'Ni' becomes 'na'... maybe the Ni is represented as 'Nacole') Stephanie = Stephoonie Jessica = Jessikoo Thomas = Ta moo may (although I don't know why it didn't end up as Tamoos)

@Mdautkreix

18 күн бұрын

Best comment

@semisixx4967

15 күн бұрын

This needs some likes.

@frightfullycleanfrightfami9618

10 күн бұрын

It sounded to me like she maybe was using Spanish sounds to the phonetics, which could account for some of the unexpected pronunciations.

Wait the name of the uni is Thomas Jefferson? “Where do you work?” “Tom-moo-may university”

@jaysven6153

16 күн бұрын

Yeahhh that’s the thing. Even with phonetics being confusing, there’s just no way to confuse “Thomas” especially when your university (that you work at) is named after a President named Thomas.

Taumoohmay will surely remember this forever.

@flyrehash5124

19 күн бұрын

honestly I think it's hilarious and all of the grads will have a great story to tell 5-10+ years down the line

@Evanz111

19 күн бұрын

“It’s Thomas >:c”

@baanaanaana

19 күн бұрын

no it was tohmoodmay

@CombatOstrich

19 күн бұрын

"You done messed up, Taumoohmay"

Ruined my graduation by just not graduating.

@Doofy138

19 күн бұрын

penguinz0 needs to stop! He needs to take a break or retire! 😂 I make better content..

@vrpower4616

19 күн бұрын

Fr

@bossannova

19 күн бұрын

@@Doofy138takin a shit right now

@AtibaVV

19 күн бұрын

Ssame

@p-__

19 күн бұрын

My farts are better than Charlie's farts

My friends last name is Geissler, and when she graduated the ceremony guy pronounced it “Gay-Slur” with a pause between both syllables and everything.

My college graduation memory: In a field house where the A/C couldn’t keep up with the heat and amount of people. Some dude 15 mins into the 2-3 hour ceremony starts letting it rip and gassing the whole section. People playing detective trying to figure out who the hell is farting based on dissipation.

I was so confused how she was struggling so much. I then looked up what phonetic spelling was. I myself would struggle 100x more pronouncing a name I know in phonetics than a name I’ve never seen just spelled out.

@meowateyourchips7417

18 күн бұрын

That’s IPA standard but that’s not what was given to her. She was given actual names and phonetics that were in plain English.

@bunnyrabi

18 күн бұрын

​@meowateyourchips7417 yea, but honestly that was a bad choice. If i was in charge i would never give phonetics underneath classic English names, depending on the person that would end up confusing people. I remember in my high school our teacher would only write phonetics for uncommon American names or foreign names. I dont know who thought giving her the name + phonetics of every single name was a good idea. Since usually if i see phonetics under a name i am assuming its not a commonly pronounced name.

@fatcat1414

15 күн бұрын

​@@bunnyrabi The spirit of it might've been to not alienate certain students for having unusual names, but I agree it's weird.

@JigglyPuff_JesusChristLovesYou

11 күн бұрын

@@meowateyourchips7417it seems as tho she was not given the original names

"Dude your name's Thomas, no way anyone would mispronounce that" "Well, actually..."

@p-__

19 күн бұрын

My farts are better than Charlie's farts

@stephengrigg5988

19 күн бұрын

Yeah... the *Thomas Jefferson* University.....

@Veledeen

19 күн бұрын

Shout out to all the Tuh-homas out there!

@thaloblue

19 күн бұрын

They gave her a card that unnecessarily phoneticized the names. So instead of Thomas it was literally written as “ˈtɒməs” and instead of Marissa it was “ /məˈrɪsə/“. Borderline gibberish if you don’t have very specific education.

@347Jimmy

19 күн бұрын

​@@thaloblue I think you're right, it had to be full phonetic alphabet to cause that kind of confusion

I was once the escort at a quinceanera, and when the announcer called me up to start the dance ceremony he called me "Carmen". Still plagues me to this day.

The cards she was given had their actual names AS WELL as the phonetic spelling though

That was a straight set up mission the school did to that lady lmao

@Piercing_Mitez

19 күн бұрын

you got swarmed by a bot

@CasualCat64

19 күн бұрын

Above the phonetic spelling is the actual name in big bold letters they shared screenshots. She knew what it was she was reading phonetics for 10 mins before realizing there’s no set up

@maddog2622

19 күн бұрын

Maybe a mission for a 2nd grader

@isaiahromero9861

18 күн бұрын

Nah she was just very dumb

This lady is gonna start summoning demons with these pronunciations

@p-__

19 күн бұрын

My farts are better than Charlie's farts

@Ramsey276one

19 күн бұрын

Bayonetta: I think I will not be a substitute teacher here...

@globsterjail8195

18 күн бұрын

She actually did summon a demon onto stage. Luckily, it was quickly ushered out before it could do damage so that the next graduate could be presented.

@anthonylesley982

17 күн бұрын

Lol

@Jetfox967

13 күн бұрын

Some random demon: Who has summoned me?

8:09 not the lady being absorbed into the window in the advert 😭

charlie's description of graduating at 3:40 is disturbingly accurate to my own lmfao

My university had a very good system for this. The presenter had the list of names ahead of time and had marked evey one she was not 100% confident in. If your name got marked you were directed to go see the presenter at a table in the corner. You were also encouraged to go talk to the presenter if you had what may look like a normal name but was pronounced differently. The presenter herself had you pronounce your name to her several times, she would take notes and then one of the people helping her would record a clip of you saying it. My guess is, if the presenter's notes were not enough to jog her memory on how to pronounce it, there was someone right beside her to queue up the recording for her to give a quick listen. All in all it was very well thought out and precisely executed. One of the few things my university actually did right.

@GSKArip

19 күн бұрын

At my highschool, well known students were the ones who read your name and you could choose one of 3. You’d hand them a name card with how your names spelled, and then below how you’d pronounce. If they didn’t know for sure once you handed it over they’d ask just to make sure. Thought that worked pretty good but idk how well that would work in larger class settings (even though we were a class of 250 it’s much larger for college)

@Compound7

19 күн бұрын

I’m not reading that but I agree

@imAngzy

19 күн бұрын

​@@Compound7tiktok attention span right here lmao

@urphakeandgey6308

19 күн бұрын

That sounds like she went above and beyond her job description.

@adamgerald849

19 күн бұрын

I read 1/2 of that and that's just basic, common sense and planning. This is what every human being with an IQ of at least 90 should be able to do without being told. I'm not surprised this college didn't do that because colleges are getting dumber. This staff probably has less intelligence than a class of seventh graders because even they could have executed this better.

The issue is the phonetic list probably didn't distinguish the end of one name and the beginning of a middle or surname. Which is why they was added syllables at the end of the name.

@katherinescott1324

19 күн бұрын

No there would be spaces

@Dynoids

18 күн бұрын

There should have been spaces, but they said in their post that they had errors with the list on top of only having thr phonetic names instead of both. It seems like the phonetics were the ONLY thing up there on top of errors with them. But really the dean/director or anyone should have paused the ceremony and just had the students whisper their name to someone or hand out papers to write them instead of letting the ceremony keep going like that.

@Cotif11

18 күн бұрын

That doesn't explain how (tahmissmykalkanehvahree) became (ta-moo-may)

@Dynoids

18 күн бұрын

@@Cotif11 Yeah lol, still fumbled hard

@MrSpleenface

18 күн бұрын

@@Cotif11 It was probably written TAH-muhs MY… which getting tahmoomay from isn’t like… crazy? I think she also thought the capitalized sounds were the word breaks, rather than going by dashes

When I graduated highschool I was sick at the time but I was powering through it (pre covid times obvi) but someone was giving a speech and we had to stand for it for whatever reason and I nearly passed out I ended up laying on the cool pavement back stage and then I got in a wheelchair and shoehorned on stage and got the wrong diploma. I'll never forget it at least

This is what my dad sounded like when he was having his stroke

They basically just made her play Mad Gab instead of just giving her names

@p-__

19 күн бұрын

My farts are better than Charlie's farts

@stephengrigg5988

19 күн бұрын

Just.. eviscerated by bots 😂

@skylerheart1257

19 күн бұрын

​@stephengrigg5988 I was expecting replies under them but after reporting this is all I see. Nice😂

@PlatinumDragonFish

19 күн бұрын

I hate these bots sm

@stephengrigg5988

19 күн бұрын

@@skylerheart1257 well 3 are still showing as of now, but you got one deleted so far.

Imagine going through all that work and graduating and it ends with them just butchering the shit out of your name

@DaveSmith-pc4ul

19 күн бұрын

Ngl I’d find it funny as fuck

@p-__

19 күн бұрын

My farts are better than Charlie's farts

@solidskullz5736

19 күн бұрын

@@DaveSmith-pc4ul fair, having your name said wrong doesn’t mean you don’t graduate or something lol

@Nyakomata

19 күн бұрын

Weird, i remember my university 11 years ago had this shit down, we went in the week before and wrote our stuff down phonetically, and it all worked out, idk what new system of phonetics they decided to use here.

@Doofy138

19 күн бұрын

penguinz0 needs to stop! He needs to take a break or retire! 😂 I make better content……

That school set that poor lady up to look as dumb as possible. I feel bad for her

i wonder how many ppl got a lifelong nickname through that

I love that the broadcast let her announce the name and then reveal what it actually was

@CasualCat64

19 күн бұрын

Above the phonetic spelling is the actual name in big bold letters they shared screenshots. She knew what it was she was reading phonetics for 10 mins before realizing…

@Camazotz-kz9wr

18 күн бұрын

@@CasualCat64 Who shared screenshots? How'd they get them?

@lrizzard

18 күн бұрын

​@@Camazotz-kz9wr its on washington post, theres a photo of one of the students' cards, you can see how it was written

@CasualCat64

18 күн бұрын

@@Camazotz-kz9wr magic

The world is back to normal. Charlie is back in a white shirt.

@Doofy138

19 күн бұрын

penguinz0 needs to stop! He needs to take a break or retire! 😂 I make better content..

@Phantom_N1H1

19 күн бұрын

E

@p-__

19 күн бұрын

My farts are better than Charlie's farts

@Idk_byebye

19 күн бұрын

@@Doofy138 😐

@thegoofygulagbros.8576

19 күн бұрын

​@@p-__STOP, SERIOUSLY DUDE OR BOT AHHH 😑, NO ONE FUCKING CARES. QUITE LITERALLY STOP SPAMMING THIS ON EVETY SINGLE FUCKING VIDEO.

doing gods work by giving all those easy to say names a taste of what us hard names have to go through

Here’s the thing tho. Phonetic spelling is important and my graduation had all the English professors spell our names phonetically if they are hard to pronounce. I have four names and my last name is hyphenated and very complicated Italian. BUT they had another English teacher VERSED in phonetic spellings do the announcing of every grad. And she came by and rehearsed them if we had had them spell it out

@t.c.4321

6 күн бұрын

It's not important

What's your Fantasy Name: Step 1) Have your name Step 2) Have this lady say it out loud

@ashcore95

19 күн бұрын

you would have to get the school to write it phonetically first.... she knows how to speak, did you watch the video?

@Gamingderpmonglers

19 күн бұрын

​@@ashcore95way to miss the point of the joke bro.

@shockmazta3116

19 күн бұрын

@@ashcore95 They never said anything about her ability to speak, are you stupid?

@unusedmonkey4435

19 күн бұрын

Still better than my school who got the graduation date's wrong by a year

@rabbitttz

19 күн бұрын

@@unusedmonkey4435date’s what wrong?

My university made us put our pheotic name in our submission to walk, they then showed the graduation card to us on our day of graduation that had our spelled out name and pheotic spelling to confirm they got both right. How did the school mess up that bad by not going something that easy

@p-__

19 күн бұрын

My farts are better than Charlie's farts

@ticklemebreathless1394

19 күн бұрын

Exactly. Just feels lazy imo.

@Cooltatsfede

19 күн бұрын

Sorry you have all the bots replying to your comment, I'm just here to point out that you misspelled phonetic

@coco-wc1cz

19 күн бұрын

They did do this, exactly this, u can see the cards on Washington Posts article the announcer just chose not to read the damn non phonetic spelling for whatever reason

@andeggbreaks

19 күн бұрын

They literally did exactly this

The pronunciation debacle at the graduation will definitely make it more memorable for everyone. It's unfortunate for the students, but at least there's a unique story to tell.

@mcnamaraky

19 күн бұрын

This. It's pretty hilarious to have a completely normal name be totally butchered. Like they're reading Mandarin while knowing like 3 letters in Mandarin. It is a hilarious story for later on and definitely would make it more memorable for me. I would find it hilarious to be honest, so hopefully these kids are able to laugh about it and not fixate on it negatively.

@xeno703

18 күн бұрын

of course the bot comments to farm engagement

@noah-xt9tx

18 күн бұрын

A human did not write this comment bro

All that I got for my college graduation was a virtual one due to the 2020 pandemic. I would've taken this over the virtual one because it would've been more memorable and something to look back on fondly. I do have a bit of a complicated last name, but i don't mind if someone messed it up. I hope those college graduates have amazing careers.

6:54 As a Speech-Pathology major, I can confirm that some of these phonetics are not easy for someone who isn't experienced to read. Like in jessica for example, the whole name would be transcribed as this /dʒɛsɪkə/. How would the school expect someone without some sort of linguistics or phonology background to read these accurately and quickly? That being said, she is still adding extra sounds that are not present in the transcription and this would be my personal hell if I had to rapid fire read names like that. End rant

@vmofu7317

19 күн бұрын

Girl it is not transcribed like that, cmon

@MiruyaChan

19 күн бұрын

​@@vmofu7317 It absolutely is.

@ragtag8241

19 күн бұрын

@@vmofu7317❌🚨❌

@annette_lu

19 күн бұрын

I don't think it was even transcribed in IPA, I remember reading that they just spelled it out like "jeh-sih-ka" or something similar. It would have 100% made things worse for me too, I have no clue how anyone could think this was a good idea

@jackspedicy

19 күн бұрын

Why even put her if she has these issues?

Charlie is right. They will remember this forever. During my eight grade graduation, I put my wrote my middle name on the call sheet as “Danger”, but I didn’t bother with phonetic spelling because…I live dangerously. The announcer pronounced my middle name as “Dang- er” and my family still brings it up to this day

@vanjazed7021

19 күн бұрын

Oh dang

@adamantium7279

19 күн бұрын

​@@vanjazed7021 er

@ItsJustSeb

19 күн бұрын

Thats a banger alright.

@vanjazed7021

19 күн бұрын

@@adamantium7279 he truly lived dang-er-ously. A ur-chin.

@rocknroller4186

19 күн бұрын

At least they didn't call you dangler 😂

Why would a university just expect a person couldnt read, so they hand them cards with a bunch of stupid shit written to hope a person could pronounce what they wrote?

I like that you look into the actual context behind the situation instead of just reporting it

I thought it might have been some elaborate final test for the nursing students - see if any of them checked if she was having a stroke or similar.

6:43 She gets "Alisoona" because there's also no separation between names. So her middle name, Nicole, the "Ni" is blending in to the end of "Allison". That's also why she says "Cole" next, "Alisoona Cole" from "Allison Nicole".

@dyerseve3001

19 күн бұрын

Right, this was more than just phonetic, it was phonetic with no spacing between first, middle and last name. TJU release the fucking note cards!

@OsirusHandle

19 күн бұрын

lmao this is just a funny screw up then hardly ruined 😂

@moterinsun

19 күн бұрын

Marissa Lynn Barabazon-Carr --> məˈrɪsə lɪn Brabazon kɑr Victoria Elizabeth Bruce --> vɪkˈtɔriə ɪˈlɪzəbəθ brus Allison Nicole Bishop --> ˈæləsən nɪˈkoʊl ˈbɪʃəp

@rattlestormrepublic4874

19 күн бұрын

Even if that were the case it would be "Alisooni"

@Name..........

19 күн бұрын

​@@rattlestormrepublic4874 not if her middle was a name with an A, her last name is Nicole. They don't usually use middle names as the last name dueing graduation

I went to this school for a semester and transferred out. I can confidently say that this video is the perfect representation about how everything at TJU went.

Critical mentioning my graduation feels like a fever dream lmao

@-BL1NKY

19 күн бұрын

Congrats Rhee-Ah-Nih-Nih!

@p-__

19 күн бұрын

My farts are better than Charlie's farts

@TheJoxterr

19 күн бұрын

I'm curious, what was the overall reaction fron the graduates? did any get mad or smthn? edit: typo

@Space-1255

19 күн бұрын

My condolences you had to go through that

@Ocelotmaniac

19 күн бұрын

As a St. Joes about to be graduate, my condolences because what on earth did they do??? They set that woman up.

Imagine getting ready to read students name out loud and the paper they give you looks like this; - /dʒɑn/ - /ˈmɛri/ - /ˈmaɪkəl/ - /ˈdʒɛnɪfər/ - /dʒeɪmz/ - /ˈsɛrə/ - /ˈdeɪvɪd/ - /ˈɛməli/ - /ˈkrɪstəfər/ - /ˈdʒɛsɪkə/

@Redemption643

18 күн бұрын

Took me a bit but I think I got most of them.

@feevrdreams

18 күн бұрын

Yeah that’s so crazy. Took me a sec to kinda sound it out

@bulcanworks

18 күн бұрын

“dean, michael, sara, david, emily, christopher..” man i don’t know what the fuck is going on with the rest

@kingcobraarchie

18 күн бұрын

I can figure a few of them out, but doing it in a rush is a nightmare

@aditya5162

18 күн бұрын

@@bulcanworks the d looking things are j's

Having the phonetics of the names only is like assembling a puzzle without the original picture. I feel bad for the presentor and i ridicule the school for thinking a phonetic only list was how they should have handled it.

There's still got to be more to this story. The phonetic spelling of Thomas is not Tuhmoomay. And the phonetic spelling of Elizabeth is not Lee.

Honestly this is so much better than a regular graduation now your graduation is famous for being the funniest in history lmao

@p-__

19 күн бұрын

My farts are better than Charlie's farts

NOT ONLY is this the former high school class of 2020 finally getting to have a graduation, they also CHOSE to study nursing DURING THE PANDEMIC.

@HPraccoon

19 күн бұрын

They're just doomed to suffer through graduation ceremony fuckups

@kob6912

18 күн бұрын

High schoolers graduating is so unserious. In the UK you get your exam results at home from a website and you collect your certificates from the front office of your school a few months later. If you’re lucky you get a letter.

soooo glad my shcool had an acting professor who was also a speech coach announce the names. he nailed ALL of them

So I graduated from this college 6 years ago. We had to indicate how our name was pronounced on the forms to graduate. Plus, there's many graduations for each separate college at Jefferson, like business, etc. This wasn't new, and no other speaker has messed up badly enough to make the news. She needs to stop blaming other people.

As someone who's graduating high school this Sunday, I felt a mix of emotions watching this video.

@brianmidkiff5408

19 күн бұрын

Congrats!

@jessejames457

19 күн бұрын

In the moment, when you're handed the diploma, you WILL forget how to smile. Please remember this. GL man 🎉🎉

@_DrinkMoreWater_

19 күн бұрын

Who the fuck graduates on a Sunday? I thought they were always on school days usually Friday.

@chriscofer6780

19 күн бұрын

​@@_DrinkMoreWater_ I graduate on Saturday on the 25th

@alexxxx2190

19 күн бұрын

hey im graduating saturday congrats

0:21 Thomas is literally in the name of the University…

@p-__

19 күн бұрын

My farts are better than Charlie's farts

@Doofy138

19 күн бұрын

penguinz0 needs to stop! He needs to take a break or retire! 😂 I make better content..

@ub6o7

19 күн бұрын

Lmao yeah

@astrolightingyt4531

19 күн бұрын

@@p-__why even do this you don’t gain any money or much fame

@alexacharney

19 күн бұрын

​@p-__ wow assh@le, you can repeat post! Copy and paste, I'm impressed

Any Giants fans here who remember when they had that kid as a guest PA announcer who introduced Russ Davis as "Roos" Davis? I love how we collectively decided to run with it and started cheering him on with "ROOOOOOOS!!" from that point forward until he retired. 😂

That’s insane. I’ve graduated twice now and both times the announcer was given both the normal name and a phonetic spelling submitted by the student only if they felt it was necessary. For example my name ends in a short I sound, and I submitted a phonetic spelling to ensure they didn’t pronounce my name with a long I sound. This seems to be standard for all schools. What was Jefferson thinking?

@mtg979

18 күн бұрын

She was also given both the actual names AND the phonetic names

I would have been so concerned as a nursing student on this stage cause the way she pronounced Thomas actually sounds so much like someone starting slurring their speech right before a massive seizure... this hole thing is unbelievable 😭😭😭😭 Ps: I'm not a nursing student I just meant it as 'if I was'

@purplepixie274

19 күн бұрын

I was thinking that, or a stroke, I'd be calling an ambulance 😅

@terrormilk384

19 күн бұрын

​@@purplepixie274*Ta meuh may*

@user-ui5cj8oq8o

19 күн бұрын

There is no way you're a nursing student spelling whole wrong

@terrormilk384

19 күн бұрын

@@user-ui5cj8oq8o I'm not I meant just as in as if I was

@vasconcelos7356

19 күн бұрын

This "hole" thing? 🤨

You can really tell when someone commented in the first 0.6 seconds of the video cuz they are all insulting the way she says thomas when literally charlie explains why less than 3 minutes in

@p-__

19 күн бұрын

my farts are better than Charlie's farts

@caloxya4139

19 күн бұрын

oh god yeah, mildly annoying fr

@meowateyourchips7417

19 күн бұрын

⁠Charlie didn’t look for pictures of the actual cards that are already floating around online. The actual names were indeed on the cards. The phonetics were not also IPA standard which requires a person to learn first and it was just spelled in English like SAIR-uh vuhr-JIHN-yuh BREH-nuhn. Even if only the phonetics were on the card, I personally would have been able to pronounce it somewhat correctly.

@meodrac

19 күн бұрын

@@meowateyourchips7417 I've seen the video of the girl showing the name card for her name, the only explanation I could think of that doesn't involve supposing that the reader was a complete and utter imbecile was it's a Steve Harvey incident where there was something blocking the top part of the cards when she had them. But even then, after 3 names, she should have thought "Hold up, wait a minute, something ain't right!"

@meowateyourchips7417

19 күн бұрын

@@meodrac One explanation could be the person who was supposed to do the job wasn't available at the last minute and they had to just pull in whoever.

6:40 I don’t think they had spaces between first and last names. The “Allisoona” she says here was probably written with a soft u instead of an o, and she probably got the ending “na” from Nicole. With no spacing between words, there is no way to tell whether or not her name is Allison Nicole, or Allisoni Cole. I don’t think she’s trolling

I really feel bad for her. This wasn't her fault at all and I believe someone was trying to make a fool out of her. I hope the students weren't upset with her about it either.

"Balakay? Where is Balakay at?" "My name's Blake..." "Are you out of your goddamn mind?"

@JonoLB

19 күн бұрын

Lmao. One of the best parts of that skit. Wheezing 😭

@baldtoes

16 күн бұрын

balarke 🤤😈

Me when the teacher tells me to read at loud in class

So, according to the card I saw on The Washinton Post, she had cards with the names spelled AND phonetically....and also, the phonetics were hard to mess up if you read them the way they were on the card. Sair-uh Vuhr-jin-ya Brehn-nun and you read out...“Sigh-eer Oo-voon-jean-june Bree-nun" girl...what?!

I was in the crowd for this. My sister was graduating for nursing. Let me just say, the crowd was not quiet. It was utterly baffling how bad she was fumbling. The amount of times she had messed up just the name Elizabeth is insane! Me and many others in the crowd were periodically yelling to stop or swap with someone else. One dude yelled “get it right”, and from there it ramped up and more people joined, it was wild! Luckily, when my sister went up, someone else was reading the names. Who knew this would happen, and for such a damn big event too! Oh, and as for the phonetic spelling: my sister said that one of her professors went up to point out to her to just say the names themselves, but she kept either ignoring him or not understanding what they meant, which is where the problem arises.

@Gencinnamon245

19 күн бұрын

God, that must’ve been completely horrible witnessing through all of that. I feel bad for those people

@milesmccue9388

19 күн бұрын

Oh no some people got their name said wrong. Womp womp

@DoodleDoo2

19 күн бұрын

@@milesmccue9388 do you cut ur finger with how edgy you are

@marannebbeling9799

19 күн бұрын

@@milesmccue9388 Agreed 100%. But I'm also very prone to cringe, so this would still be excruciating to sit through on the basis of pure cringe. In fact, I have yet to see the video, because I'm even cringing over a continent away by the thought alone lmao

@madsmikkelsen7161

19 күн бұрын

I was there too, my mom was graduating. Crowd was 100% not quiet haha

EXACTLY the Key and Peele skit, I cannot believe this is real life lmaoooo Did she call any Blakes Balakay? Any Jaquellans?

@p-__

19 күн бұрын

My farts are better than Charlie's farts

@FrameByFrameG.O.A.T

19 күн бұрын

Any Tim-oh-thees?

@sierraacharlie

19 күн бұрын

Dee-nice?

@irlporygon-z6929

19 күн бұрын

jayquellin

@mrtrollnator123

12 күн бұрын

​@@sierraacharlie😂😂😂

It's also worth noting that not only did they give her only the phonetic spelling of the names without anything else, but they also didn't tell her that they were the phonetic spellings.

@Keeki95

17 күн бұрын

Weird. People in this comments section are saying there are published pictures of the cards also having plain English on them as well. Are you certain they only had the phoenetics, or are you assuming what you've heard is true? Personaly I'm going to wait until I've seen the cards to believe either way.

My graduation for high school was so sad. Nobody was cheering for me at all, it's was dead silent for 5 seconds, and then the pity cheer came in to stop the awkward silent.

@mrtrollnator123

12 күн бұрын

😢

You see, "Tom-Muh-May??" is the name of those masks that give you extra lives in crash bandicoot

@p-__

19 күн бұрын

My farts are better than Charlie's farts

@pairot01

19 күн бұрын

it's actually "AkuAku"

Sounds like the school pranked her by giving her the names spelled phonetically while sacrificing the graduates' pride lmao

@devonwilliams2423

19 күн бұрын

What I don’t understand is this is a grown ass woman, you pause, “excuse me I have the wrong name list “ resume Like wtf lol

@gahaha8565

19 күн бұрын

Nah that has been proven false, she had access to the names too, its diversity hire, they wanted the most ethnic person and she did as well as you would do reading names at a Nigerian graduation..

@branch737

19 күн бұрын

@@gahaha8565 so uh, how do you know all that?

@MimiUsagichan

19 күн бұрын

@@gahaha8565bro is “woke”

@gahaha8565

19 күн бұрын

@@branch737 ppl shared what the cards looked like, also the lady is obviously not a native speaker

This should be one of your challenges in TOC

Honestly, the fact that nobody thought she was having a stroke is kinda terrifying,…

Not stopping is the thing that gets me 😂 Like just turn to your boss and be like “YO, WTF. REAL LIST, PLZ 🙏 THANKS”

@jessehcreative

19 күн бұрын

If I was early on in presentations, I would have grabbed the mic and the cards and asked for someone to read them out right.

@toastyscoot5580

18 күн бұрын

@@jessehcreative she’s in a booth bro Sealed away and hidden There is no stopping fate

my college graduation was right after the brunt of the pandemic ended, so it had no ceremony or party, it was just a handful of people in a line taking a bunch of pictures, but I went there with 0 intention of taking pictures and honestly didn't even know there were going to be pictures, so I wore some long jhorts and a pair of dirty sneakers, and now all have to remember that day are a bunch of wackass pictures of me looking like a homeless teen runaway junkie. I *wish* they were announcing names and the person doing it called me Quandale Dingle or something, that would've made the occasion actually worth smiling about

@donnish3326

19 күн бұрын

Drip or drown my friend, drip or drown...

@FreshTillDeath56

19 күн бұрын

At least you even got a graduation. They canceled ours.

@40088922

19 күн бұрын

@@FreshTillDeath56 mine had been cancelled too, they eventually decided to change the date, but by this point, it was just something to say it happened at all. like I said, I didn't expect to even take pictures, I legit thought I was just gonna pick up the diploma and leave

I’m studying for my master’s degree in linguistics and frequently come across phonetic spellings and even I’d probably have issues reading those out loud correctly immediately

In middle school, I was super involved with the spelling bee. I was one of those kids who studied for it and everything. In high school, I was an editor for a student magazine. In college, I majored in English. I still don’t know how to read phonetic spellings.

5:23 from now on this is my username

@zyansheep

19 күн бұрын

Omg you actually did it xD

I thought it was the White Woman struggling to pronounce some "ethnic" names but she is struggling with THOMAS 😂

@timmiller1

19 күн бұрын

It feels like that was the point, like “let’s show the white people how it feels” kind of thing.

@rudysmith1552

19 күн бұрын

​@@timmiller1mainstream American culture has nothing but contempt for white Americans it cares more for white Ukrainian then white Americans the best singing White American can do is youth is White Privilege in higher sexual market place value to go to another country to Ashley live a halfway decent life that doesn't involve Kartel people or 13%ers

@Jack93885

19 күн бұрын

​@@timmiller1I think they chose phonetic spelling because they thought it would make it so everyone's name is pronounced with the same proficiency. They were right, I just don't think they expected to be right by mispronouncing everyone's name regardless of how common it might be.

@MrJames1034

19 күн бұрын

​@@timmiller1 Everyone blames White people for not being able to pronounce a name like Uvuwevewe Ogwewumbwem-Osas correctly but nobody gets mad at Japanese people for not being able to prounce "William Wallace" correctly. That's a racist double-standard.

@Ahmed-og2jm

19 күн бұрын

@@MrJames1034 Thank you for exposing the horrors of this unjust world 🙏🏼

The most ironic part of this is that this is from Ta-moo-may Jefferson University.

At least they got to walk. My graduation happened during Covid and because of rain, they skipped the walking altogether

Allison phonetics is wild there’s a few variations Al-li-son, AL-i-suhn, AEL-ih-SahN, or al-uh-suh n

@norbertsreignofterror9418

19 күн бұрын

This is why you do IPA, wtf.

@anthonylesley982

17 күн бұрын

Lol

@NotoriousFoxxx

13 күн бұрын

IPA is bad ​@@norbertsreignofterror9418

2:18 Oh no this is exactly how much respect the school has for its graduates.

@dinazidan7909

19 күн бұрын

no multiple ppl from the graduation posted their cards, and they had both the phonetic & regular spelling lol

as someone who graduated yesterday, this warms my heart

When I read the title I thought it was gonna be about the Chiefs player commencement speech

*accidently casts a spell to summon a demon* 'Whomst has summoned the almighty one '

@crembels

19 күн бұрын

*Hands the Almighty One a degree in nursing *shakes hand "Congratulations!" *takes photo Almighty one: "Wh...?"

Gotta say, that _is_ a interesting way to remember a class. Because i remember that my CTC Teacher showed us the Key&Peele skit about the "Substitute Teacher," not long before a fire drill. And during that, i would be called ALE-x.

What’s with the graduation shit this year? The USC disaster, the Butker speech and now this

Woman, EVEN THE NAME OF THE SCHOOL IS THOMAS, how hard could it possibly be?

@Gogettor

17 күн бұрын

I know it was said a thousand times but it still makes me smh

@jaysven6153

16 күн бұрын

I don’t know how anyone is standing up for her… phonetics is confusing but… if you’re a professor you should absolutely know how to read in phonetics.

My graduation 2 years ago was slightly different. Bad parts: I was stressed out because my zipper on the gown broke during the ceremony and I was tearing up slightly frantically trying and failing to zip it up. I for some stupid reason skipped out on the graduation party and is one of the biggest regrets of my life. Good parts: My elementary school principal was one of the people I shook the hands of and I gave the principal of my high school a big hug. I also got a hug from my crush.

Tom-moo-may jef-far-san oni-var-sity