Klarinet Archive - Posting 000304.txt from 1999/07

From: Ken Wolman <kwolman@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Nickname for Seiji Ozawa?
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 16:55:44 -0400

At 02:23 PM 7/10/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Did anyone else catch this? I was watching CNN Headline News about 10:30
>(EDT) this morning when a report about Seiji Ozawa's planned retirement was
>aired. The news anchor's pronunciation of his name sounded like "Segue"
>Ozawa, or something very similar. Does anyone think this has a chance of
>becoming a nickname, and if so, would Ozawa be amused, offended, or
>indifferent?

Probably it means the guy reading the news was an illiterate, or at the
very least had not been coached in Japanese names.

It could've been worse. If it IS a nickname, at least "Segue" has
something to do with music. Thank God Maestro Ozawa's nickname is not
Bubbles....

Ken

Kenneth Wolman kwolman@-----.net
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"For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, neat, and
wrong."
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