useless Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 I pronounce Valencia, Valenthia I've no Idea why it's not on purpose, it just must be the way I heard it as a child and it's stuck. Is it possibly a speech impediment? How would you pronounce thauthageth? No it's not a speech impediment. It's because that's how I heard it pronounced as a child and so it has become hard-wired into my brain to say it that way. I would pronounce thauthageth like thawthaagef. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Getting disciplined at work for my injured finger just before Xmas. Bastards, I asked to view the risk assessment of the machine and it says for danger 'Possible death, illness or injury' and then likelihood 'Likely to happen in prolonged use', risk 'high'. So I say why doesn't it have a proper guard where the conveyor belt meets the moulder and they just say 'well you shouldn't put your finger near it' and as I've signed the training they discipline me for misconduct. It was just a fecking accident, every single other piece of equipment that has moving parts has a guard on it for a reason. Raise a grievance and report the incident to the HSE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 I'm watching live updates on Twitter of the local council voting on building a new ground for my local non-league team and they're mostly voting against despite recommendations from the planning committee. It's soul destroying to see a team I grow up with potentially dying, as I don't think rejection is survivable. They want to build it in between a roundabout, a park and ride and a dump yet the main objections are about noise for equestrians and woodland. NIMBY bastards all of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 making bets with people when ive had way to much to drink. was out friday and bumped into a lad who works down our place and hes a liverpool fan and me being the stupid knob i am made a £5 bet that we would beat them, thing is i knew we would get beat and i probably knew when i was making the bet. he reminded me of it today as i was working with him, doh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 People using the Spanish pronunciation of places when discussing their holiday in a Birmingham cafe. "I absolutely loved 'Valenthia'" Piss off I always pronounced the Arsenal player as Terry Henry ( as in how you'd pronounce Henry Cooper) People would say "who ? " ( As if there is any other arsenal player with a similar name they could mistake him with !!) I'd say you know the French clearing in the woods and they'd say oh you mean " t airy 'on re " I'd say no his name is Terry Henry he's just being pretentious 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 En-Ree / Henry I think is valid. The T-airy / Terry thing doesn't work though as they are different words though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troon_villan Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 The French way of Tee airy onree just rolls of the tongue better. Terry Henry just sounds like Lenny's jailbird younger brother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 21, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted January 21, 2015 With names, I think the rule would generally be how they pronounce it. If you met a french guy and they told you their name was Thierry or David or Michelle you wouldn't call them Terry or Dave or Michael/Mike just because you're English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eames Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 (edited) The pronunciation thing comes up a lot IMO there are simple rules. Peoples names as Stevo said should be pronounced correctly (or the closest approximation your wonky tongue can manage Places foreign words etc should be treated consistently. If you are going to say "Baaaach-rain" for Bahrain, you have to say "Par-ee" for Paris. 100% local pronunciation 100% of the time, or 100% anglicised. One or the other. Edited January 21, 2015 by Eames Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zak Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 The pronunciation thing comes up a lot IMO there are simple rules. Peoples names as Stevo said should be pronounced correctly (or the closest approximation your wonky tongue can manage Places foreign words etc should be treated consistently. If you are going to say "Baaaach-rain" for Bahrain, you have to say "Par-ee" for Paris. 100% local pronunciation 100% of the time, or 100% anglicised. One or the other. Agree with 1 and should agree with 2 but id probably kick the guy who says "Par-ee" in the nuts for being a right word removed but then id have similar desires for someone who pronounces the Ls in Marbella. Ll in spanish is a y sound i.e me llamo Zak (pronounced me yamo) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eames Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 The pronunciation thing comes up a lot IMO there are simple rules. Peoples names as Stevo said should be pronounced correctly (or the closest approximation your wonky tongue can manage Places foreign words etc should be treated consistently. If you are going to say "Baaaach-rain" for Bahrain, you have to say "Par-ee" for Paris. 100% local pronunciation 100% of the time, or 100% anglicised. One or the other. me llamo Zak Your grasp of language and typing is remarkable for a Llama Zak. Might want to look at your spelling and grammar though buddy. **patronisingly rubs between ears** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 With names, I think the rule would generally be how they pronounce it. If you met a french guy and they told you their name was Thierry or David or Michelle you wouldn't call them Terry or Dave or Michael/Mike just because you're English. I met a Swiss guy who introduced himself to me as Vonson. I called it him for a few days before I realised his name was 'Vincent'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zak Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 The pronunciation thing comes up a lot IMO there are simple rules. Peoples names as Stevo said should be pronounced correctly (or the closest approximation your wonky tongue can manage Places foreign words etc should be treated consistently. If you are going to say "Baaaach-rain" for Bahrain, you have to say "Par-ee" for Paris. 100% local pronunciation 100% of the time, or 100% anglicised. One or the other. me llamo Zak Your grasp of language and typing is remarkable for a Llama Zak. Might want to look at your spelling and grammar though buddy. **patronisingly rubs between ears** Way to diverge the conversation away from my insightful original post.......for ****..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Not strictly on topic, but a friend of mine (!) was staying on holiday on a small island and the small number of others there were Italian speakers. Every morning, when the Italians walked past, he would shout a cheery 'il meo nome' or some such. Thinking he was shouting a variation on 'hi! fellow holiday maker, good day!' First day he didn't get much of a reaction, but through the week more and more people took to the greeting and gave raucous call and response, even at an evening BBQ they all attended. Everyone calling 'il meo nome e' Turns out later, all week he'd been meeting people, passing by people on the beach or leaving parties etc., and shouting 'my name is'. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eames Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 The pronunciation thing comes up a lot IMO there are simple rules. Peoples names as Stevo said should be pronounced correctly (or the closest approximation your wonky tongue can manage Places foreign words etc should be treated consistently. If you are going to say "Baaaach-rain" for Bahrain, you have to say "Par-ee" for Paris. 100% local pronunciation 100% of the time, or 100% anglicised. One or the other. me llamo Zak Your grasp of language and typing is remarkable for a Llama Zak. Might want to look at your spelling and grammar though buddy. **patronisingly rubs between ears** Way to diverge the conversation away from my insightful original post.......for ****..... Ah come on....no need to spit at me. Where is your sense of humour? Sheep nut? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 With names, I think the rule would generally be how they pronounce it. If you met a french guy and they told you their name was Thierry or David or Michelle you wouldn't call them Terry or Dave or Michael/Mike just because you're English. Most people pronounce Ruud Gullit as "hullit" when Dutch people and Ruud himself actually say it more or less as it's spelt, ie with a hard g. Sort of the opposite to what happens in the above examples ie people trying to make a name sound more continental than it actually is. See also: McClaren, Steve and his hilarious Dutch accent....."eet is, how you say, Arshenal". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 21, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted January 21, 2015 With names, I think the rule would generally be how they pronounce it. If you met a french guy and they told you their name was Thierry or David or Michelle you wouldn't call them Terry or Dave or Michael/Mike just because you're English. Most people pronounce Ruud Gullit as "hullit" when Dutch people and Ruud himself actually say it more or less as it's spelt, ie with a hard g. Sort of the opposite to what happens in the above examples ie people trying to make a name sound more continental than it actually is. See also: McClaren, Steve and his hilarious Dutch accent....."eet is, how you say, Arshenal". Same with Dirk Kuyt. "Cow-t" seemed to be the generally accepted way of saying it. I saw an interview with him when he said it was basically nothign like that. More like "Hoyt" Also, Jagielka is pronounced "Ya-gielka" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 21, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted January 21, 2015 And Lodz is pronounced 'Wuj'. Swedish VTers? Gothenburg is something like 'Yutterborg', no? And what did you Norwegians think about our pronunciation of 'Jon Carew'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 I'll just use what they introduce themselves as, simples. Place names, depends who I'm talking to, if they're french, I'll say Par-ee, if it's dave from the pub, probably just Paris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 21, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted January 21, 2015 I met some norwegian girls on a night out once. After a while one of them asked me if I knew any famous Norwegians. I obviously responded with John Carew. They had no idea who I was talking about. After some detailed describing of who he was, one of them exclaimed "OH! You mean Yunn Kah-rev?" Doesn't have the same ring to it. I miss him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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