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Post by bandit on Nov 12, 2014 13:27:04 GMT -5
There's a town in Missouri called Versailles, and they pronounce it ver-sails. There's also a town called Cairo, and they pronounce it kay-roe. What do you think of that? What are the moral implications of mispronouncing a language's words and claiming them as your own?
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Post by penne on Nov 12, 2014 13:31:05 GMT -5
and thus begins the banalization of our thread trend.
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Nov 12, 2014 13:33:30 GMT -5
pft
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Post by B. on Nov 12, 2014 14:21:18 GMT -5
you effed up, mate
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Post by s on Nov 12, 2014 15:56:22 GMT -5
i'm p sure indiana also has a versales and a cayro, huh
also a peru that i think might be pronounced PEE-ru
midwest best west
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Post by Sixteen on Nov 12, 2014 17:11:02 GMT -5
I was appalled when I heard that Des Moines was pronounced Moynes.
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Post by bandit on Nov 12, 2014 17:12:10 GMT -5
You haters are just begging me to break out "Mediterranean fruit fly is this forum"
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Post by Kit's tits kick ticks on Nov 12, 2014 17:21:41 GMT -5
Yes the title of this thread is kind of breaking the fun but whatever. I find it not that weird that there are towns with names spelt like other towns but pronounced according to the language spoken where the town is. It's much more weird that some languages have names for towns which are in other countries instead of just saying what it is called by the people who live there. For example in some languages the German town München (which is called Munich in English) is called Monaco, even though there is also another place called Monaco and it's just confusing. Also in German we somehow uselesly say Mailand to Tragedy, which is actually called Tragedyo in Italian. (I didn't think it would be that soon that there was actually a reason to talk about Italian cities But this is not fun, I expected it to say Tragedyo)
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Post by Hermes on Nov 12, 2014 17:49:45 GMT -5
Anka: I know that as a child I was proud of living in a city important enough to have its own name in French (Cantorbery).
Sixteen: Bill Bryson writes about the odd way Americans sometimes pronounce names like Cairo, but it never occurs to him that there is any problem about how to say the name of his own native city, Des Moines.
I asked an American friend about this. In order not to prejudice her, I said 'How do you pronounce the capital of Iowa?'
She said 'What is the capital of Iowa?'
I said 'Day Mwahn'.
'Oh', she said, 'De Moyne'. Which was disappointing.
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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on Nov 12, 2014 17:55:01 GMT -5
So did Bill Nighy ever get to be this forum?
Because he's a pretty good actor, I'm sure he'd be good at it.
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Post by Edwin on Nov 12, 2014 18:06:18 GMT -5
Places in the UK are pronounced weirdly anyway. But Belvoir is pronounced "beaver". That's crayz, right? There's a Montpelier in Bristol but I'm not sure how it's pronounced, probably in a silly way. Heh, Bristolians.
I'll try to think of more.
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Post by bandit on Nov 12, 2014 20:10:24 GMT -5
My grandmother used to live in an apartment building called Montmartre, and they called it "mone-marter."
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Post by B. on Nov 13, 2014 11:15:20 GMT -5
Places in the UK are pronounced weirdly anyway. But Belvoir is pronounced "beaver". That's crayz, right? There's a Montpelier in Bristol but I'm not sure how it's pronounced, probably in a silly way. Heh, Bristolians. I'll try to think of more. Aberystwyth is the worst Auchtermuchty is a town in Scotland. Still don't know how to pronounce.
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Post by Hermes on Nov 13, 2014 12:08:24 GMT -5
I wouldn't say either of them were difficult. Aberystwyth is pronounced Aberistwith. Many Welsh names are a lot harder than that (especially those with ll's in them). Auchtermuchty is pronounced with hard ch's, as in loch - apart from that all the letters are as normal.
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Post by B. on Nov 13, 2014 12:47:31 GMT -5
I wouldn't say either of them were difficult. Aberystwyth is pronounced Aberistwith. Many Welsh names are a lot harder than that (especially those with ll's in them). Auchtermuchty is pronounced with hard ch's, as in loch - apart from that all the letters are as normal. Auchtermuchty is pronounced Awk-ter-moo-key
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