Porsch-e or Porsche
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interesting thread, I like to call it porcheeser
and shout it loud in public places especially when entering or leaving the car.
you should try it somtime, works a treat when youve just waltzed past a bus stop swirling your keys around your finger at some tottie to then get near the car and scream PORCHEESER!
absolutly no one things your a tosser when you do this its great!
and shout it loud in public places especially when entering or leaving the car.
you should try it somtime, works a treat when youve just waltzed past a bus stop swirling your keys around your finger at some tottie to then get near the car and scream PORCHEESER!
absolutly no one things your a tosser when you do this its great!
DucatiGary said:
interesting thread, I like to call it porcheeser
and shout it loud in public places especially when entering or leaving the car.
you should try it somtime, works a treat when youve just waltzed past a bus stop swirling your keys around your finger at some tottie to then get near the car and scream PORCHEESER!
absolutly no one things your a tosser when you do this its great!
and shout it loud in public places especially when entering or leaving the car.
you should try it somtime, works a treat when youve just waltzed past a bus stop swirling your keys around your finger at some tottie to then get near the car and scream PORCHEESER!
absolutly no one things your a tosser when you do this its great!
Porcheeser... nice, i might try it thanks.
ahem...
"Now then, where did i put the keys to my PORCHEESER?"
I like it...
Bloke I bought my 944 off told me in no uncertain terms "Now you own one, you have to refer to it as a 'porsche-er', otherwise people in your local PCGB will laugh at you."
So, yours truly rocked up at my local TIPEC meet and asked "I say old chap, where is this porsche-er do?", and they all laughed at me.
Oh, sorry, meant to post this in the 'PCGB or TIPEC' thread ... :gets coat:
Oli.
So, yours truly rocked up at my local TIPEC meet and asked "I say old chap, where is this porsche-er do?", and they all laughed at me.
Oh, sorry, meant to post this in the 'PCGB or TIPEC' thread ... :gets coat:
Oli.
seriously - i thought you only referred to them as a Porscha if you were:
a. American
b. wearing red braces inside the M25
c. mentally retarded
I am truely shocked at owners debating which is the correct pronuciation - all i can suggest is you read what it says on the badge, or perhaps Stuttgart offers some 'correctional therapy' (no doubt in facilities left over from the 40's)
a. American
b. wearing red braces inside the M25
c. mentally retarded
I am truely shocked at owners debating which is the correct pronuciation - all i can suggest is you read what it says on the badge, or perhaps Stuttgart offers some 'correctional therapy' (no doubt in facilities left over from the 40's)
deutscher said:
hugoagogo said:
you mean München? 
I do, but I didn't know how to do an umlaut. What's the secret?
i press the key marked "ü", just above the ones marked "ö" and "ä" and under the one marked "ß"
fidgits said:
seriously - i thought you only referred to them as a Porscha if you were:
a. American
b. wearing red braces inside the M25
c. mentally retarded
a. American
b. wearing red braces inside the M25
c. mentally retarded
or
d. german
Edited by hugoagogo on Friday 22 September 17:23
Is there a bit about trying to respect the car's history and country of origin?
We wouldn't be too pleased if people from other countries changed the names of our manufacturers to fit in with their pronunciation characteristics would we?
No idea how to put foreign symbols on letters in here to demonstrate but you get my drift.
The way I see it is that this is a car company that is named after its founder, Ferdinand Porsche.
As such the correct pronounciation is the way he chose to pronounce his name.
If people pronounce my surname wrongly then I feel entitled to correct them. If someone said to me "oh, you only say it that way if you are pretentious or retarded" I'd tell them it was my sodding surname and I was the definitive authority on how it was pronounced.
So I'd argue that the way Dr. Porsche pronounced his name is probably the definitive way of pronouncing the car company. And since he was german I'd say it was the german way of "pour-shur".
As such the correct pronounciation is the way he chose to pronounce his name.
If people pronounce my surname wrongly then I feel entitled to correct them. If someone said to me "oh, you only say it that way if you are pretentious or retarded" I'd tell them it was my sodding surname and I was the definitive authority on how it was pronounced.
So I'd argue that the way Dr. Porsche pronounced his name is probably the definitive way of pronouncing the car company. And since he was german I'd say it was the german way of "pour-shur".
Edited by JonRB on Friday 22 September 19:24
deutscher said:
fidgits said:
- all i can suggest is you read what it says on the badge, or perhaps Stuttgart offers some 'correctional therapy' (no doubt in facilities left over from the 40's)
To anyone who can read German it says Porsch-er
Now I would have said the correct pronunciation is Porsch-eh with the first syllable getting the emphasis. There's only one "r" in the word.
Wikipedia has a good article on Ferdinand Porsche at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinan
Whilst obviously acknowledging that Wiki is not an authoritative source, it states that the german pronounciation is "PORSH-uh" which is pretty much how I say it.
I apologise for my earlier post which said "pour-shur" as that is a poor approximation and "PORSH-uh" gets the idea of the phonetics across much better.
Whilst obviously acknowledging that Wiki is not an authoritative source, it states that the german pronounciation is "PORSH-uh" which is pretty much how I say it.
I apologise for my earlier post which said "pour-shur" as that is a poor approximation and "PORSH-uh" gets the idea of the phonetics across much better.
JonRB said:
Wikipedia has a good article on Ferdinand Porsche at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinan
Intersting. So he was really an Austrian, with a moustache, who became a very well known name in Germany. Sounds familiar!
deutscher said:
hugoagogo said:
you mean München?
Edited by hugoagogo on Friday 22 September 14:17
I do, but I didn't know how to do an umlaut. What's the secret?
you don't need an umlaut, you can spell it "Muenchen". The umlaut substitutes the vowel + "e". A bit like "Duesseldorf" if you don't have a German keyboard
hugoagogo said:
you mean München?
i say porsch-uh to germans and porsh to brits, usually. sometimes i say it right
would you say bay-em-vay or bee-em-dubbelyoo?
volks wagon or fohlks-vaagen? (or fow-vay for that matter)
awdi or owdi?
i say porsch-uh to germans and porsh to brits, usually. sometimes i say it right
would you say bay-em-vay or bee-em-dubbelyoo?
volks wagon or fohlks-vaagen? (or fow-vay for that matter)
awdi or owdi?
Edited by hugoagogo on Friday 22 September 14:17
Actually, I refer to mine as 'The Pork Chop' or 'Porker'
And I used to refer to my old Golf as 'the Krautwagen'
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