How would you pronounce Kristalina Georgieva? The first name of the managing director of the IMF is easy enough for English speakers. The second is another matter entirely. For years, I have heard people pronounce it with one and often two soft Gs, like the sound of the ‘s’ in measure...
“I can make a deal with President Xi,” he pronounces and up go the indicators of “the Markets”. “Little Rocketman went too far and I have to blow fire and brimstone on him,” the redhaired one in the Whitehouse tweets and “The Markets” plummet because WW III could be only a...
Musk is certainly no stranger to the spotlight (or to cracking a joke). He's had cameos inIron Man 2,The Simpsonsand Rick and Morty --as Elon Tusk. And then there are the viral moments:taking a toke on Joe Rogan's podcast, that could-almost-have-been-a-comedy-rout...
“Johan was talking with Bob about the Canadian scene for months. Maybe for longer so I told them to go there,” she says, enthusiastically. The pair flew out to Quebec’s annual music festival Pop Montreal and began speaking to the organisers to figure out how it all worked. Bob was ...
most GPS units offer text-to-speech functionality, which means that they pronounce street names for you. (For example, instead of telling you only to turn left in 500 feet, the device will instruct you to turn left in 500 feet onto Elm Street.) Text-to-speech used to be a high-end ...
Iran could categorically reject such demands and pronounce itself unconstrained by the terms of the JCPOA—or publicly take the high road, perhaps working with Europe to preserve the outlines of the deal. Either way, though, it is very likely that Iranian hard-liners, already upset about conces...