#3942326 - 04/21/14 11:01 AM
Re: Funny How People in Other Countries Pronounce Names
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In the land of Oz, Thong means Sandals.
So if you say you are going to the beach and you don't want to forget your Thong, it doesn't mean G-String.
I was in Australia a couple of years ago and I emailed my friends in the U.S. and told them I was going to email them photos of me wearing a pair of Thongs.
LOL! I assume that you're talking about the footware that is a flat soul with 2 straps that come up to hold it to one's foot that terminate in between the big toe and the 2nd toe. I'm a native Californian and I've heard it as flip flops, thongs, and zorries but rather rarely sandals. They're jandels in New Zealand for some reason. The skimpy underwear is called a g-string in Aus.
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#3942327 - 04/21/14 11:05 AM
Re: Funny How People in Other Countries Pronounce Names
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Who cares, I don't. I like the 'accents'. When I was in Austria, if I could just get my point across in the bar, I was happy......so was she. Seems a lot of people are real picky now days has to be 'their' way. Always has been a difference in how people pronounce words, even in this country from one region to another, and in England, from one place to another, doesn't even have to be another 'country'. All the same.....'boring'. I like 'accents'.
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#3942339 - 04/21/14 12:05 PM
Re: Funny How People in Other Countries Pronounce Names
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sa-moo-rye (rhymes with eye) is the correct way that japanese people pronounce the word
karaoke is ka-ra-oh-kay
pokemon is poh-kay-mawn
as for company names, the company and public at large determines how it should be pronounced in each region it's doing business in.
the entire world pronounces nikon incorrectly. (should be knee-kon. japanese company) As Jayhawk said, I haven't heard a european pronuncing it any other way. What peeves me off is hari kari. It's harakiri.
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#3942346 - 04/21/14 12:20 PM
Re: Funny How People in Other Countries Pronounce Names
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sa-moo-rye (rhymes with eye) is the correct way that japanese people pronounce the word
karaoke is ka-ra-oh-kay
pokemon is poh-kay-mawn
as for company names, the company and public at large determines how it should be pronounced in each region it's doing business in.
the entire world pronounces nikon incorrectly. (should be knee-kon. japanese company) As Jayhawk said, I haven't heard a european pronuncing it any other way. What peeves me off is hari kari. It's harakiri. It's enough to make you commit hari kari!
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#3942371 - 04/21/14 01:08 PM
Re: Funny How People in Other Countries Pronounce Names
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I find "aluminum or aluminium" a good example of how small differences in language jump out at you. Heck, we and the UK even spell it differently.
So much depends on what you grew up with. So "aluminum" sounds natural and correct to my ear while "aluminium" sounds odd. My spell check even identifies "aluminium" as incorrect and wants to make it "aluminum".
I like the differences in national languages. It would be boring if the differences weren't there.
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#3942389 - 04/21/14 01:49 PM
Re: Funny How People in Other Countries Pronounce Names
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The skimpy underwear is called a g-string in Aus. Here, too. We also have butt floss and for the men banana hammock among others. Speaking of better sounding versions, I prefer the British version of avocado even if it more wrong than the US version
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#3942391 - 04/21/14 02:00 PM
Re: Funny How People in Other Countries Pronounce Names
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[quote=Billzilla] for the men banana hammock among others.
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#3942406 - 04/21/14 02:33 PM
Re: Funny How People in Other Countries Pronounce Names
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Nike is still Ni-Key not Nike as in bike. We've got to get this correct, people. World peace hangs in the balance!
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#3942471 - 04/21/14 04:20 PM
Re: Funny How People in Other Countries Pronounce Names
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I get stuff like that a lot traveling.
My name is Anthonynot Antonio. Yet, when I'm in latin countries they call me that. My first name is George. Not "Hor-hey."
Since we don't generally do that in America, it's always seemed weird to me. Juan in America is still Juan. We don't just assume to change it to John. You have 2 names? You don't? First/Middle.
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#3942495 - 04/21/14 04:51 PM
Re: Funny How People in Other Countries Pronounce Names
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It's not people saying a word wrong that bothers me. It's when they say it wrong but insist it's correct that does.
For example, most Americans don't say foreign words correctly, but few pretend to understand. They say it wrong, if someone corrects them they shrug, and either correct themselves or continue saying it wrong because it's "easier."
Very rarely do you see an American telling an Asian "no, you're saying it wrong!!" when they say "pokemon" and tell them "you say it like THIS."
Of course, English itself is fairly unique among languages in that you can totally mangle the pronunciation of almost every word and yet still be understood, although nuances can be lost. I don't mind accents much at all.
What I DO mind are substitutions that make them unintelligible. If you're using a word that I expect to mean something else, and I get it wrong because you assumed everyone knew that "in MY country we call those chips, not fries", THAT is maddening.
There was an episode of the New Twilight Zone in the 80s IIRC that had a grammar nazi get transported into an alternate world where everyone still spoke English, but definitions were scrambled. So instead of "lunch", the midday meal was "dinosaur". When he said to his wife, "don't you mean lunch?" she stared at him baffled and said "why would anyone eat lunch? It's just dinosaur."
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#3943229 - 04/23/14 09:52 AM
Re: Funny How People in Other Countries Pronounce Names
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It is Nike here and always was Nike until some years back people started calling it Ni-kee. I will continue to say it correctly as Nike (pronounced "Li-Kee") Of course the Greek Νίκη (meaning 'Victory') is pronounced 'Nee-keh')
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#3943231 - 04/23/14 10:28 AM
Re: Funny How People in Other Countries Pronounce Names
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The funniest thing I've heard is a Scots man trying to say "Purple Burglar alarm" find one and get him to say it
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#3943283 - 04/23/14 01:23 PM
Re: Funny How People in Other Countries Pronounce Names
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The funniest thing I've heard is a Scots man trying to say "Purple Burglar alarm" find one and get him to say it I keep trying to imagine that, saying it to myself over and over.....lol.... Can't even imagine how a 'REAL' Scots would pronounce it! I REALLY like the idea of English accents, even in England they're are several variations. How boring it would be, if we all spoke exactly the same. For a 'life time', I'll always remember that girl from England, listening to her, was like music......
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#3943287 - 04/23/14 01:28 PM
Re: Funny How People in Other Countries Pronounce Names
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It's not people saying a word wrong that bothers me. It's when they say it wrong but insist it's correct that does. I was in an Italian restaurant one time and asked for pollo (pronounced like Marco Polo) and and the waitress corrected me that it was pronounced the Spanish way (like poyo).
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#3943292 - 04/23/14 01:39 PM
Re: Funny How People in Other Countries Pronounce Names
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It's not people saying a word wrong that bothers me. It's when they say it wrong but insist it's correct that does. I was in an Italian restaurant one time and asked for pollo (pronounced like Marco Polo) and and the waitress corrected me that it was pronounced the Spanish way (like poyo). That doesn't surprise me since you live in California. I think California has more Spanish speakers than even Florida.
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#3943329 - 04/23/14 02:43 PM
Re: Funny How People in Other Countries Pronounce Names
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As CA's population is much greater, that's not surprising at all.
Now if there were more Spanish speakers in Rhode Island than Florida, THAT would be amazing.
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