If you're going to drive and Italian car...................

[Robert060379]

..........for the love of Cows learn how to say the fking name correctly!!!!!!


Thick people should not be allowed Italian cars. I was watching a "Discovery Turbo" show earlier about Lancia Betas and one owner was on about his car being a Volu-mex. Grrrr! Tw@! Volume-x not Volu-mex. Some other bloke was on about his Alpha Rome-e-o My-toe. I couldn't take any more and changed the channel, and watched a Top Gear repeat on Dave. Volu-mex sounds like one of those weight gain drugs. John Major/Trainspotter voice "I used to be a weedy gimp til I tried new Volu-mex. Now I'm a beefcake and women dig me". Why do people say Larn-sea-ah?

Anyway feel free to sound off at anything fellow Italian car owners do that annoys you (don't get me started on the concourse guys).

[Elderly]

Robert060379 said:

Thick people should not be allowed Italian cars. ........ Some other bloke was on about his Alpha Rome-e-o My-toe.

Anyway feel free to sound off at anything fellow Italian car owners do that annoys you.

I thought it was spelled 'Alfa' .
By the way, I'm also a little confused by your thread title - "If you're going to drive AND Italian car ......."

Stones and glasshouses

[alfabadass]

I thought it was rrrome-ayo?

[jimmyjam]

Whats wrong with Larn-sea-ah?
Is this not just a regional pronunciation problem as opposed to the difference between Pawsh and Pawshah?

[Robertf]

Weird thread.

Its Lan-chi-a to italians.

You say potato...

[Muzzlehatch]

I returned home one evening to see a telephone message written by my stepdaughter.

It read: "Simon called from the Lunch Here club. Please call him back."

[wrinx]

Elderly said:

Robert060379 said:

Thick people should not be allowed Italian cars. ........ Some other bloke was on about his Alpha Rome-e-o My-toe.

Anyway feel free to sound off at anything fellow Italian car owners do that annoys you.

I thought it was spelled 'Alfa' .
By the way, I'm also a little confused by your thread title - "If you're going to drive AND Italian car ......."

Stones and glasshouses

Same thought was running through my head

I've heard "Volumex" rather than "Volume-x" many times...the way it's written leads to Volumex imho.

...but then I drive alpha remeros so what do I know

wrinx

Edited by wrinx on Tuesday 1st September 19:27

[Mr2Mike]

Robert060379 said:

Anyway feel free to sound off at anything fellow Italian car owners do that annoys you .

What annoys me are the ones that start pointless threads about the way various names should be pronounced.

[lambogenie]

the Alfa / Alpha thing is much more annoying for me.

[Robert060379]

I wrote it as it was pronounced on the programe. Alfa is of course Al-fa not Alpha Alf-ha.

Nobody's mentioned the model snobs how the 'grale boys snub the HF owners, or how the box shape Fiat Panda still isn't regarded as a classic, or the 159 Wagon mini-cabs, or the..................

[Muzzlehatch]

Robert060379 said:

I wrote it as it was pronounced on the programe. Alfa is of course Al-fa not Alpha Alf-ha.

Nobody's mentioned the model snobs how the 'grale boys snub the HF owners, or how the box shape Fiat Panda still isn't regarded as a classic, or the 159 Wagon mini-cabs, or the..................

You need to use proper phonetic characters, otherwise it's hard to know how you're trying to express the pronunciation. i.e. ɑɭɸə (and not ɑʎɸə)

Then everyone will speak it exactly how you want it to be heard, as each character represents an exact sound.
Good link here: http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/b...

Regarding 'grale boys and HF - the integrale is an HF, so everyone should be happy. Just don't spell it intergrale"!

[Robertf]

I hate it when people shorten integrale to 'grale. I think Integrale means "complete" so 'grale might mean "plete" which is sort of silly....

....like this thread.

[jamieboy]

As above, people who say 'grale when they mean integrale. :shudder:

Likewise Fezza, Maser, Lambo, etc.

Edited by jamieboy on Sunday 6th September 09:47

[DJC]

But I only say 'grale because I know it annoys silly ppl who get annoyed about it.

[jamieboy]

Oh, I've thought of another - people who say "ppl" when they mean "people".

[funwithrevs]

Robert060379 said:

Why do people say Larn-sea-ah?

I think that is how their marketing department used to sell it.

Much like, when I was a kid, it was "Nestles Milky Bar", Anglicised with no accent on the 'e'.

I get frowned at by Italians for using the English pronunciation of Lancia, but then have been called a pretentious tw*t by English friends when I used the Italian pronunciation near them

[robsti]

Lan-cha is the Italian and "white-hen" is the engerlish way! oh Y10 by the way!

[Big_Kahuna]

Old friend of my wife's Gran always called my Alfa (when I had one) an Alfa Romero - that's right Romero - I still laugh to this day