Pronunciation Pricks (1 Viewer)

[the strange guy]

Your Ma's salty piss really brings out the flavour of the tomatoes, I find.

 

[ravishinrikrude]

that piss has been filtered through the salt rocks of the michigan basin i'll have you know! she doesn't just piss in the pot.

 

[ratmonkey]

and deduce that you also hate darkies, nig nogs

Aren't they the same?

 

[ratmonkey]

Trevor Welch and his Ree-all Madrid.

George Hamilton is grand, he tends to check his pronunciation with the locals and knows what he's saying.

 

[CitySickness]

Actual conversation with taxi driver in New Orleans:

- So, where are you from?
- Dublin, in Ireland.
- Where? Arlen?
- Ireland, Eye-err-land, you know it?
- Never heard of it. Is that in England?
- No, but it's a small island to the west of the UK... at the far edge of Europe? Where Irish people come from?
- Oh, OK. No, I'm not familiar with it. Do you use dollars there?
- No, our currency's the Euro. A lot of European countries use it.
- Euro? Is that like the pound? Or more like a dollar?
- [long, bemused explanation]
- And do you guys have roads in Arlen?
...

 

[coast to coast]

Or if he's just scored a screamer from outside the box.

Correct!
Can you imagine if Marco Tardelli gee-ed up the team by recreating his 1982 World Cup final goal celebration in the dressing room before every game - you'd feel invincible.

I dunno why I feel a responsibity to pronounce names as they should be, but I do, even though I don't expect foreign types to be able to pronounce my name... and despite it only having three letters, they've struggled...

 

[Unicron]

Correct!
Can you imagine if Marco Tardelli gee-ed up the team by recreating his 1982 World Cup final goal celebration in the dressing room before every game - you'd feel invincible.

I dunno why I feel a responsibity to pronounce names as they should be, but I do, even though I don't expect foreign types to be able to pronounce my name... and despite it only having three letters, they've struggled...

I've found more that Irish people can't pronounce my (our) name. They can't manage the diphthong and say "eeen" instead.

 

[coast to coast]

I've found more that Irish people can't pronounce my (our) name. They can't manage the diphthong and say "eeen" instead.

Too true. We have it rough....
That said, Brazilians came out with "Yam" and this French Canadian woman wasn't even able to start the word, she just looked freaked out.

 

[Space]

You lads should see what happens when you complicate it further by putting a C in front of it. Moose however, everybody gets.

 

[coast to coast]

Actual conversation with taxi driver in New Orleans:

- So, where are you from?
- Dublin, in Ireland.
- Where? Arlen?
- Ireland, Eye-err-land, you know it?
- Never heard of it. Is that in England?
- No, but it's a small island to the west of the UK... at the far edge of Europe? Where Irish people come from?
- Oh, OK. No, I'm not familiar with it. Do you use dollars there?
- No, our currency's the Euro. A lot of European countries use it.
- Euro? Is that like the pound? Or more like a dollar?
- [long, bemused explanation]
- And do you guys have roads in Arlen?
...

The first part of this happened to me also, though I didn't stick around to finish the second part of this conversation.

I was walking in New York up through Harlem and these guys were sitting out on the step in classic fashion and asked us two honkies "where we were from boy?"

"Ireland"

"Harlem? You ain't from Harlem!"

"Eh...."

 

[therealjohnny]

"You don't look Irish"

 

[Scientician 0.8]

"I've been on this planet long enough to know there ain't a place called Irelant"

 

[Moods For Mallards]

In fairness, when we Irishers say 'Ireland' it does sound like 'Uhrlind' a lot of the time. An entirely different product to the vowel blanket of the American pronunciation.
The confusion is almost inevitable.

 

[Lolo]

In fairness, when we Irishers say 'Ireland' it does sound like 'Uhrlind' a lot of the time. An entirely different product to the vowel blanket of the American pronunciation.
The confusion is almost inevitable.

You have to learn to tell Americans that you're from "Eye-er-land". I have to confess when I was in the States I gave in and started talking about wadder and budder instead of watttther and butttther as well. They don't get that middle-class Irish soft T at all, they think it's an "sh" sound.
"Busher? What's busher?!"

 

[CitySickness]

Best way of avoiding confusion is just to say that you're Irish. Or Ugandan, if you're from Uganda.

 

[therealjohnny]

Say with weary sigh "I'm a citizen of the world"

eliminating the need for further explanation, as they'll think you're a cunt and stop talking to you

 

[Space]

I find wearing one of these t-shirts every time I leave the country works a treat.

 

[therealjohnny]

I'm thinking of getting this

begob

 

[Space]

I'm thinking of getting this

begob

how much is it?

 

[Lolo]

Best way of avoiding confusion is just to say that you're Irish. Or Ugandan, if you're from Uganda.

I once went for a flat in New York and the Russian landlady, who'd been in America for 20-odd years, looked at me blankly when I said I was Irish. She seriously had no idea what I was talking about. Where did she think all the New York cops were from?! And what the feck did she think was going on every March 17th????