Lancia: saying it all wrong
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LunarOne said:
And nobody can pronounce Hyundai. I'll give you a clue. It's definitely not "Hi 'n Die"!
For a brief period I was going out with a Korean girl who made me learn how to say it because it annoyed her when I said Hi 'n' dieHyun-day
She also said that even in Korea SsangYong has a reputation for making ugly s
teBreadvan72 said:
Yup, he is from The Abruzzo, so a total pleb!
PS: Also a QC who is Mr Football Law, who has bought back his grandfather's old farmhouse and restored it, and grows vines and olives in the ancestral village, where he now spends his summer. Not bad for a lad from the mountains.
Yeah, I spent 4 years in Milan, with some time in Puglia and Sicily. Italian is the only language apart from English, where I can pick up accents and regional variations. Love it, always expressive and engaged. Well maybe except Trentino.PS: Also a QC who is Mr Football Law, who has bought back his grandfather's old farmhouse and restored it, and grows vines and olives in the ancestral village, where he now spends his summer. Not bad for a lad from the mountains.
Edited by Breadvan72 on Saturday 11th July 17:52
Your mate sound like a good guy for a night out. I had a Swiss Re reinsurance relationship manager in Milan who was from Sicily. Every time he was in Milan we had dinner. It never got him any extra business, but he was great company and we had some superb meals. What more could you want in life?
Modern Italian is, I believe, basically a development of Renaissance Florentine, the language of Dante. Regional variations are considerable, and Sicilian, and a few other dialects, are pretty much distinct languages. See also Provencal and French, Catalan and Spanish, Scots and English (I said Scots, not Gaelic), high and low German, and so on.
All of the Romance languages are mostly Latin subjected to the effects of time and locality, of course, but they have diverged quite a lot over the last two millennia. English, a non Romance language, is whacky because it has chunks of Latin but is very Germanic, for obvious historical reasons. Polish is a whacky combo of Latin and Slavic, and so on. Languages are mega interesting.
All of the Romance languages are mostly Latin subjected to the effects of time and locality, of course, but they have diverged quite a lot over the last two millennia. English, a non Romance language, is whacky because it has chunks of Latin but is very Germanic, for obvious historical reasons. Polish is a whacky combo of Latin and Slavic, and so on. Languages are mega interesting.
Stuart70 said:
Yeah, I spent 4 years in Milan, with some time in Puglia and Sicily. Italian is the only language apart from English, where I can pick up accents and regional variations. Love it, always expressive and engaged.
I have no interest in foot ballbut I would like to know why in Italy
ithe team is called A.C. Milan and not A.C. Milano?
indigochim said:
I recently found this out too, I suspect I'll just carry on mispronouncing it like the many other brands that I've anglicised.
Seeing theStratos Strato's in that period video clip looks like it's straight out of Dr Who or some other sci fi It must have looked so futuristic in the day.
FTFY.Seeing the
indigochim said:
I recently found this out too, I suspect I'll just carry on mispronouncing it like the many other brands that I've anglicised.
Seeing the Stratos in that period video clip looks like it's straight out of Dr Who or some other sci fi It must have looked so futuristic in the day.
Totally agree re the Strato’s.Seeing the Stratos in that period video clip looks like it's straight out of Dr Who or some other sci fi It must have looked so futuristic in the day.
In France I read once that Lancia is pronounced Long-say-r
vixen1700 said:
Cit-trun?
Cit-trone?
See-troh-enn. The troh is the tricky bit.Cit-trone?
When Panini first appeared in this country I used to enjoy ordering a panino.
"You mean Panini?"
- "No thanks, I only want one of them"
Then I stopped doing that because causing anything from mild confusion to outright loathing in others gets a bit dull eventually.
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