Tuesday, November 11, 2025

don't be an idiot

Some people, being mentally sloppy, have trouble with surnames.

Remember, it's 

Mam-da-ni, not, Man-da-mi.
• Gavin Newsom, not Newsome.

Don't be the wrong sort of genius. Even if you don't like these people, as I don't, at least pay enough attention to get their names right. Know whom you're excoriating so that you're not straw-manning.

"Mom Donny." Got it?


4 comments:

  1. Did I do that Mandami thing? I know I f'd up Newsom and got called out for it. Anyway, I *think* I've got them both down right now. We'll see how long that lasts.

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  2. I think I've only mentioned Mamdami once, and that was in a comment on an earlier post here. So, if you didn't see it, it must have been correct.

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    1. I saw that you had incorrectly written "Mandami" in your post "The Calm Before the Storm," and a few commenters had done the same on Instapundit (and some of them regularly write "Newsome"). Use your blog's search window to search for "Mandami," as you'd misspelled it. Actually, here's the quote:

      Nothing Mother Nature throws at me could possibly be worse than, oh, say living in Mandami’s NYC.

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