he may have been a stutterer, and was trained mostly out of it.
I think it’s funny the way Colin Powell pronounces his name!
Wow, you sure seem to be getting bent out of shape about a typo. If you notice, my post was edited. I re-wrote a lot of it, but it seems that I failed to catch that. The sentence originally read something like “It’s not just the name I’m annoyed with, it’s the whole trend of making unique names…” But with the way the post concluded, I ended up repeating myself a little, so I re-wrote a few sentences… and that was a typo that got left behind. If you notice, I go on in that post to talk about how everyone (Black, Latino, White, etc.) are on this kick of ruining perfectly good names and words just for a unique sounding name.
Typo? What key did you hit wrong to produce this typo, the “it’s not just the blacks” key? I think you mean it’s an editing error, but I think it’s fair to say that original, unedited text (or text left in by editing accident) can be psychologically revealing.
And she’s the one getting “bent out of shape”. I mean, it’s pretty obvious how “the blacks” would be read. And I can understand it being an editing mistake, but I’d expect a reply like, “ah, dammit! I had edited my post and the sentence was originally (blah). That looks way worse than what I meant!”
God dammit, what’s wrong with those people? Can’t they just hurry up and act white already?
I saw a birth notice for someone with the middle name “Perseffany”. I like the way it retains the name while removing the elegance. Nice touch.
(Google doesn’t bring up the notice but it does bring up a 2004 post on the boards where I complained about it - obviously that one has been bugging me for years) 
My daughter is friends with a girl named something similar. I can never remember if it’s Bree-Ann, Bree-Anna, or Bree-Ahn, so I just say Brian.
Do I act white enough for you, SFG? I don’t even listen to rap. 
Yes, but you’ve brought up the fact that you’re Black before. That’s just *so *gauche.
The “p” isn’t silent if you’re going by the German pronunciation. It sounds like the “pf” in “stepfather.” Although the usual English pronunciation of this is “Fifer,” I can imagine “puh-fifer” and “pee-fifer” as variations (although the latter is a bit more of a stretch.) This is much like how a German name with an “ö” or “oe” sometimes gets pronounced as a long “o”, sometimes as an “ay”, but not usually as an actual “ö.” Or sometimes how German names with a “z” get pronounced as an English “z” or sometimes as the German “ts.” (See: Mozart, Schweizer, etc.)
Really? Dammit.
I am not Black. I’m black.
Well go wash it off, then!
Too far? 
I won’t release the bees.
This time.
… Ominous!
If I had said I’d NEVER release the bees, you’d have come back with “But you can’t be trusted! It’s in the FAQ!”
[Mutters something about weekly cross-burnings, moves on]
You have an FAQ now? And who, exactly, maintains such a thing? If it’s you, that seems awfully covenient.
Of course I have a FAQ. How else I am to spread misinformation about myself?