Boy, girl, green red headed gender neutral alien?
Apr 30th 2018, 4:56 pm
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Re: Boy, girl, green red headed gender neutral alien?
... It really gets my goat to hear even the pretty decent English commentators continually say Mar-oo-anne Fellaini (especially after the way that knob did us this evening) or Chamakh if I cast my mind back. Like poor old Emmanual Eboue was always called Eb-ooey instead of Eb-way etc etc... And don't get me started on my favourite pet peeve of Madinat being idiotically pronounced Maddy-nat!!! (It's just the word Madina, meaning city, which has to have a "t" stuck on the end when it's followed by a name).
You monolingual Anglos have a lot to answer for, especially given how unforgiving you are when people struggle with the ridiculous irregularities of English pronunciation.
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You monolingual Anglos have a lot to answer for, especially given how unforgiving you are when people struggle with the ridiculous irregularities of English pronunciation.
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However, I do remember an English commentator (I can't remember who) saying live one air of a foreign player: "Yes, we know it's pronounced [proper pronunciation], but we'll continue call him [bastardised pronunciation] anyway". Classic.
