Lancia: saying it all wrong

[Turbobanana]

Breadvan72 said:

The loneliest language is, IIRC, Greek, which is out on a limb on its own.

Or Welsh, spoken only in bits of Wales and Patagonia.

[anonymous-user]

But Welsh does at least have its relatives in Ireland, Scotland, Cornwall, and Brittany. I gather that Greek does not have much of a family, although of course Latin and post-Latin languages including English use Greek loan words.

This takes us neatly back to Lancias, with their Greek Alphabetti Spaghetti model designations (along with posh Roman lady names for cars).

[citizensm1th]

I would counter your Greek with Euskara (basque)

[hidetheelephants]

Breadvan72 said:

But Welsh does at least have its relatives in Ireland, Scotland, Cornwall, and Brittany. I gather that Greek does not have much of a family, although of course Latin and post-Latin languages including English use Greek loan words.

This takes us neatly back to Lancias, with their Greek Alphabetti Spaghetti model designations (along with posh Roman lady names for cars).

Where does Montecarlo fit then?

[anonymous-user]

It's a boring little town full of trashy dheads in between France and Italy. HTH.

[Justin Case]

I suggest that you all need a break from this. Where better to relax for a few days than the delightful North Devon village of Woolfardisworthy.

[Equus]

Justin Case said:

I suggest that you all need a break from this. Where better to relax for a few days than the delightful North Devon village of Woolfardisworthy.

Dangerously close in pronunciation to Wolseley, which back when we actually had a car industry must have confounded the Italians as much as Lancia does us?

[anonymous-user]

And The Wolseley, formerly a car show room, is now a restaurant full of trashy dheads of the sort who probably think that Monte Carlo is a cool place!

[Lily the Pink]

Breadvan72 said:

It's a boring little town full of trashy dheads in between France and Italy. HTH.

It's the destination of the best historic road rally in Europe. When you get there you find that it is, indeed, full of trash - not to mention bling.

[Justin Case]

Wolseley never stood a chance. While Lancia named one of their finest efforts after the Roman road between Rome and Pisa, in the days of Dixon of Dock Green the English make named its flagship after the road that links Doncaster with Grimsby

[4rephill]

wibble cb said:

No mention of countach( said like moustache as far as I know)......

Nope! - The correct (Italian) pronunciation sounds like: "Koon-tuck"

https://www.lamborghiniregistry.com/Forums/Countac...

As noted in the link, it tends to be pronounced: "Koon-tash" in English, but it's not really correct.

(I used to annoy an Italian Friend by deliberately pronouncing it: "Koon-tash" - He used to shout at me: "It is tuck, not tash!.....it is pronounced Koon-tuck!, not koon-tash!.......Koon-tash means nothing in Italian!" )

[Mr Tidy]

Breadvan72 said:

The loneliest language is, IIRC, Greek, which is out on a limb on its own.

I don't think so, but then my education included Latin and ancient Greek.

Plenty of Greek words made it into current English, like phobia, metropolis, kudos, plethora and anything starting with "tele" - they just used a different alphabet!

[anonymous-user]

That is true, but I was thinking vaguely of this graphic of the Indo-European and Uralic languages.

Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 14th July 06:16

[anonymous-user]

I think that languages with fewer than one million speakers may have been left off for reasons of space.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/gallery/2015...

[anonymous-user]

History is harsh.

[anonymous-user]

JPvanRossem, many thanks for introducing the Tocharians. I had never heard of them before you mentioned them. A day without learning is a day wasted!

https://www.academia.edu/436107/Everything_You_Alw...

[anonymous-user]

How to say it -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D48pTaWayo

[Turbobanana]

Breadvan72 said:

How to say it -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D48pTaWayo

Thanks for that BV - a lovely little vid of one of my favourite cars. He was giving it some beans, too.

On days like these...

[Rushjob]

Turbobanana said:

Or Welsh, spoken only in bits of Wales and Patagonia.

Very close to Breton sharing a lot of words, old Gaulish language still spoken in Brittany. The name for Wales in French is Pays de Galle ( literally Country of the Gauls )

[anonymous-user]

The Romans went postal on the Druids at Anglesey. The Romans usually gave not one toss about the religions of conquered peoples, but Druidism was political, and also practised human sacrifice, and that pissed the Romans off. Well, that's what the Romans told us, anyway. The Druids' version is unknown as they all get offed.