Lancia: saying it all wrong
Discussion
Breadvan72 said:
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.
At least one of the crimes in 'Inspector Montalbano' is solved because somebody picked up the dialect spoken by one of the crims.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.
Strangely, Montalbano is the only man in Sicily who isn't into cars...! The follow up to the main series 'The Young Montalbano' was a prequel set in the '90s, imagine if somehow they managed to do one set in the '70s, Montalbano would just be a faetus but imagine the cars...
wibble cb said:
No mention of countach( said like moustache as far as I know) or Audi( North Americans insist it’s pronounced ordi, not owdi.....!
We did have Audi a bit further up, I think, but not Countach. Espada is easy to say, but I mention it because calling a car "Sword" is the same as calling a car "Schlong".
Jimmy Recard said:
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' die
Hyun-day
Is correct. I believe it means something like "modern".Hyun-day
Don't forget the French for MR2: emm-air-de said quickly sounds like something else.
Breadvan72 said:
I assume Gilbern, but is it Jilbern?
No.You assume correctly - Gilbern.
Just as Ginetta is not Jinetta.
More the drink (and tonic) and the famous American lady singer, surname James.
ah forget the Ginetta one, both sound the same. Just had a beer. Or two.
Edited by dandarez on Sunday 12th July 21:55
Turbobanana said:
Don't forget the French for MR2: emm-air-de said quickly sounds like something else.
Why didn't they say "emm-air-deux" though?I was in my late teens when a school-mate put me right about how to pronounce Lancia - and embarrassingly he was born in the USA! Although he was far smarter than me as he got a place at Oxford and ended up qualifying as a barrister.
It's not car related, but some years ago I had to make a business trip to Lodz in Poland - apparently it's actually pronounced woodj!
Breadvan72 said:
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.
What's with Hungarian then? Are they secretly klingons?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.
We have plenty of 'novel' pronunciation up here for teasing non-locals with; Dalzell, Milngavie and Caldercruix for example.
That is correct. Imagine the argument over the map amongst a bunch of migrant nomads coming from the east at some time in late Antiquity. "No, no, we turn right". "No, No, we turn left". One lot go right and become the Suomi (Finns). The other lot turn left and become the Magyar (Hungarians). Thus Finnish is not a Germanic/Scandinavian language like Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish; and whereas Polish, Czech, and other languages of that region are similar to one another, Hungarian is quite distinct.
The loneliest language is, IIRC, Greek, which is out on a limb on its own.
The loneliest language is, IIRC, Greek, which is out on a limb on its own.
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