+x=usr(1536) Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 That is all. Thank you for your support. Have a nice day. Please come again. I would hate for your bungholio to get polio. No purchase necessary; enter as often as you like. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 You say tu-may-toe, I say tu-motto. But yeah, I've never heard anyone use con-cert-o. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 (edited) One thing that annoys me about English-- if you are going to import a word from a foreign language- either keep the spelling and pronounce it according to English rules or keep the pronunciation and spell it according to the way it should pronounced, but not both! It creates too many exceptions to the rules of the language. Yes, I've been publically embarassed pronouncing "hors-de-vours" the way it is spelt if you couldn't tell ? Edited May 26, 2021 by zzip 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+x=usr(1536) Posted May 26, 2021 Author Share Posted May 26, 2021 49 minutes ago, Stephen said: You say tu-may-toe, I say tu-motto. But yeah, I've never heard anyone use con-cert-o. Not gonna name names (or provide direct links), but the offenders are pretty easy to find on YouTube with some basic searching. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+-^CrossBow^- Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 18 minutes ago, x=usr(1536) said: Not gonna name names (or provide direct links), but the offenders are pretty easy to find on YouTube with some basic searching. I'm not one of them as I was in band in high school so I know how it is pronounced hehe. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+5-11under Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 I'm very concerned about this... after my concert I'll be working in concert with my concierge in a concentrated effort to conceal the issue. 1 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 LISTEN! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Defender_2600 Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 If you are interested in the pronunciation of "concerto" in Italian, try Google Translate by selecting Italian, it is reliable. Ditto for the pronunciation of the name Mario. You might be surprised. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebor Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 20 minutes ago, Defender_2600 said: ...Ditto for the pronunciation of the name Mario... It's MAR... As in Kranmar's Delicious Mystery Appetizer... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christo930 Posted May 31, 2021 Share Posted May 31, 2021 On 5/26/2021 at 1:27 PM, x=usr(1536) said: That is all. Thank you for your support. Have a nice day. Please come again. I would hate for your bungholio to get polio. No purchase necessary; enter as often as you like. This is the least of commie-tube's problems. Only in big tech does technology go backwards. Things that used to work perfectly no longer work, everything is unpredictable and their damned rules are more complicated and unpredictable than US law. Searching now absolutely sucks., Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinks Posted June 1, 2021 Share Posted June 1, 2021 My mom asked for a fudga jeetah once. I was like mom that does not sound mexican to me...She is a American from the northern states... uff da.. I asked her if she smoked the mara jah wona in the 60s? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juansolo Posted June 1, 2021 Share Posted June 1, 2021 Don't even get me started on solder. The 'L' is not silent, and there is only one 'D'. How anyone gets sodder from solder befuddles me beyond belief. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Usotsuki Posted June 1, 2021 Share Posted June 1, 2021 It's an example of an "educated correction" - a lot of pronunciation mismatches come from this phenomenon. It gave us the "s" in island and the "b" in debt, along with the spelling "Stephen" - stuff that makes no sense. It isn't a phenomenon exclusive to English either, as French has some of these types of words too ("temps", for example). And yes, it's the explanation of "colonel" sounding like "kernel" too. The spelling in Early Modern English was, actually, "soder", which can still be seen in many copies of the KJV translation of the Bible at Isaiah 41.7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted June 1, 2021 Share Posted June 1, 2021 Things had been much easier if the Atari 7800 cartridge was named Tritone instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinks Posted June 1, 2021 Share Posted June 1, 2021 Americans call roofs rufs. Can not pronounce the oo for the life of them. Then go on to say us Canucks talk funny.. ok Forrest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MattelAquarius Posted June 1, 2021 Share Posted June 1, 2021 47 minutes ago, Jinks said: Americans call roofs rufs. Can not pronounce the oo for the life of them. Then go on to say us Canucks talk funny.. ok Forrest. That's a regional accent for "roof". Most of the States pronounces the vowels in "roof" the same way ALL Canadians drunkenly pronounce hoose, aboot, etc. Or shood I say pronoonce? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted June 1, 2021 Share Posted June 1, 2021 Now I can't get Officer Crabtree out of my head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinks Posted June 1, 2021 Share Posted June 1, 2021 Your all wrong. ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dopy25 Posted June 1, 2021 Share Posted June 1, 2021 With you on the regional thing. My wife says ruff, and also rut for roof and root. It drives me bonkers. I wonder if you see it more because of the where. SWhe is from northern Washington. I've also been to northern Maine and they have their own dialect of every freaking word, bub. That being said, my dumbass really thought it was con-sair-to, even though I took music appreciation and choir in school. I kinda tried to forget most of those times though so eh. con-chair-to it is! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juansolo Posted June 1, 2021 Share Posted June 1, 2021 (edited) Let's face it, only the Kiwi's got it right. With that sorted, I'm getting back to oiling my deck... <---- and with that post count, I may never post again... \m/ \m/ Edited June 1, 2021 by juansolo 666 posts baby! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted June 1, 2021 Share Posted June 1, 2021 But has anyone arranged one of Vivaldi's cello concertos for either TIA or POKEY sound yet? Paul did it on his ZX Spectrum once upon a time, though I still haven't figured out which concerto that is. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhomaios Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 On 6/1/2021 at 10:33 AM, carlsson said: But has anyone arranged one of Vivaldi's cello concertos for either TIA or POKEY sound yet? Paul did it on his ZX Spectrum once upon a time, though I still haven't figured out which concerto that is. You mean concerti, right? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cebus Capucinis Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 I seen every single one of these happen. They should of knowed better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+slx Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 On 5/26/2021 at 8:01 PM, zzip said: One thing that annoys me about English-- if you are going to import a word from a foreign language- either keep the spelling and pronounce it according to English rules or keep the pronunciation and spell it according to the way it should pronounced, but not both! It creates too many exceptions to the rules of the language. Yes, I've been publically embarassed pronouncing "hors-de-vours" the way it is spelt if you couldn't tell ? The trouble with that with this not having taken place for the last App. 1500 years there is no clear relation between spelling and pronunciation in English… Many languages actually change foreign words that way, occasionally words were re-spelled twice when adopted into one language from another and then yet another again. Spelling them in their native form and learning the pronunciation rules will otoh make it easier to recognise them (and read other words) should you ever travel their. In German there was quite a dispute whether changing Classic Greek „ph“ spelling to „f“ with the last big spelling reform was appropriate or an abomination of the classics, i.e. if using a Greek word with German spelling wouldn‘t out you as primitive rather than sophisticated. Contshairto feels a bit strange… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+slx Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 On 6/1/2021 at 1:22 PM, carlsson said: Things had been much easier if the Atari 7800 cartridge was named Tritone instead. That wouldn’t make the pronunciation of the i and o unambiguous, as English speakers would need to have it spelled Treetonay to pronounce it almost like Italians, unless it’s supposed to be English for „three tones“ in which case the Italians would need different spelling…. The obvious solution for AtariAge would be to make the S.A.M. pronunciation official 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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