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Good example KDDDD!Originally posted by kendoddsdadsdogsdead View Post
Nobody other that Guillem Balague call them that. We all call them Valenseeya don't we?
We're happy to mis-pronounce that - but not when it comes to players names apparently.
We can't have it both ways - so in the meantime I'll continue to Anglocise (sp) players names.Liverpool born and bred.Comment
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Yes we can.Originally posted by Howard_lfc View Post.
Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.
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I jokingly added that, since my school Spanish didn't come in handy when I went to Baza in Andalucia for the first time. Quickly realising that we needed to blend in by dropping the text book crap, we had a better time conversing. Same when I moved to Germany and found myself speaking like the digital voice announcing the stops on the bus. There is a term used for when countries adopt their own version of the originator's name. At the moment I can't be arsed trawling through Wikipedia, so if anyone knows this let me in on it please, since it's doing my head in.Originally posted by Howard_lfc View Post
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In that case then - people (like you!!) should stop correcting people when they mis-pronounce players names.Originally posted by Neil Young View Post
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Originally posted by Howard_lfc View PostIn that case then - people (like you!!) should stop correcting people when they mis-pronounce players names.
I don't. At least I think I don't.
I think commentators who mispronounce names are just lazy - they're supposed to be professionals after all.
My point though was that we don't need some overarching construct that takes pronunciation of everything into account. We don't need a system. So what if we say Vall-en-ssia and also Row-ool (which presumably you pronounce Rorl to rhyme with Paul)?
We can have it both ways.
Incidentally I've just realised I tend to say city names the English way yet the football clubs the foreign way (when I know the relevant language anyway). I'd never noticed that before.
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Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.
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What about Sporting Gijon in Spain?Originally posted by Neil Young View Post
Incidentally I've just realised I tend to say city names the English way yet the football clubs the foreign way (when I know the relevant language anyway). I'd never noticed that before.
That's pronounced Sporting Hee-hon !
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Originally posted by Howard_lfc View PostWhat about Sporting Gijon in Spain?
That's pronounced Sporting Hee-hon !
Yes, that one too, since I can speak a bit of Spanish it just wouldn't sound right to me saying Jee-jonn. In fact it would be silly to mispronounce it deliberately, inverted snobbery almost.
How do you pronounce Raul anyway?
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Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.
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hee hon hee hon hee honI live with Steptoe.Comment
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Je ne savais pas que tu sais parler francais!Originally posted by Mumsafan View Post.
Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.
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In Barca a few years ago I was reprimanded by a Norwegian Red. He heard me saying "John" Arne Riise, and he turned round and said "It's YON. YON. YON YON YON YON!", much to the amusement of loads of us who fell about laughing.Originally posted by axl27 View Post
So anyway, yeah, it's YON.Thanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’Comment
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oops, wrong threadThanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’Comment
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Raul as in towel !Originally posted by Neil Young View Post
Yes, that one too, since I can speak a bit of Spanish it just wouldn't sound right to me saying Jee-jonn. In fact it would be silly to mispronounce it deliberately, inverted snobbery almost.
How do you pronounce Raul anyway?
Oh aye - she's bilingual is Mums. She can tell us all to feck off in loads of different languages !Originally posted by Neil Young View Post
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Motty and Barry Davies always referred to Didi as Harman, which annoyed meComment
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I think she's lovely.Originally posted by Howard_lfc View PostRaul as in towel !
Oh aye - she's bilingual is Mums. She can tell us all to feck off in loads of different languages !.
Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.
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