Old So What

  This channel, which if you watch it, you’ll know is really a multitude of diverse channels, should definitely come with a warning label, a game plan…something! Anyway, it has a multitude of flaws.   One of which is that it allows AI (Artificial Intelligence), to pronounce words without the benefit of oversight by an intelligent being of some sort. This makes for a scenario of constant mistakes. Also, in what I would call a lazy effort, the channels pull up photos that do not belong with the story being presented.   The characters usually look similar to the people, but are not necessarily the people being discussed. Probably no one cares about this but me.   And I end up yelling at the tube in an effort to correct the mis-identification that is being disseminated, “No, that is not Ida Lupino, it’s Dinah Shore”!

  The Island of Grenada is pronounced in English as Gruh na duh with a long “a” as in the words: “gate” and “date.” Not Gruh nah da (a city in Spain). (Actually, I think both are OK but the island and cruise ships say the long A version.) With apologies to grammarians, my computer will not comply with the proper symbols for all of this, although I know what they should be...I think!