Originally Posted by Jack4688`
I've just been watching the British Eurosport coverage of Day 1 - it would be so much better if they got rid of Carlton Kirby. As a commentator he is fairly bad but not the worst in the world but he cannot pronounce anything remotely foreign! Here are some of his mispronunciations:
Vaclav Pech - "Vaclak", "Vaplav"
Beppo Harrach - "Harrash", "Horrach"
Buamschlager - "Baumschlanger" "Boomschalnger" he even said "a clanger from Baumschlanger" - it doesn't work because his name isn't BaumschlaNger!!!
Kajetan Kajetanowicz - "Ketjan Kajetanowicz" How can he manage to say those differently when its the same name with '-owicz' on the end?!
Freistadt - "Freestadt"
Now I know most people don't care about failing to pronounce things and it can be hard with names in a foreign language but if you're going to get things wrong at least be consistent! They had the MotorsTV WRC guy interviewing the drivers at the end of the stage so they should get the Scottish guy who does the main commentary for the WRC too - none of the WRC and ERC events are on the some weekend...
*Rant over*