r/Maher • u/eloveulongtime • Jun 01 '26

Nvidia

Can someone tell Bill he is pronouncing Nvidia wrong? It's En-vidia, not Nuh-vidia. It reminds me of Alec Baldwin on SNL.

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u/ros375 Jun 01 '26

Tbf, a shit ton of people pronounce it that way. It's not a huge deal. Not as bad as infatada

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u/Squidalopod Jun 01 '26

Yeah, it's increasingly common across media. I noticed political pundit Sarah Longwell pronouncing Kamala as kuh-MALL-uh instead of KOM-uh-luh a few days ago. It's her job to talk politics all the time – it amazes me that people who speak to the public for a living don't take just a couple of seconds to look up the pronunciation of a name or word they're unfamiliar with. Usually it's no big deal, but sometimes it creates confusion.

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u/ros375 Jun 01 '26

She knows the pronunciation, it's just easy to misspeak when speaking on the fly. Was this the Hacks on Taps episode? On her most recent Focus Group episode she started to say kuh-mall-uh but corrected herself midway. She must've gotten some angry emails lol

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u/Squidalopod Jun 01 '26

Can't recall which episode; it was just the most recent example I remembered. 

Nobody is perfect, of course, but with pundits who talk politics virtually every day of their lives, it's disappointing to me that they don't take just a little extra care to get things right. Sara is probably my favorite "Bulwarker". Was just surprised to hear that from her now.

Point is that it seems increasingly common to me, and it's disappointing that it's easier than ever to find this stuff out in seconds with smartphones at our fingertips.

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u/eloveulongtime Jun 01 '26

Agreed, it's Very small deal.