There are a couple of names in CA that I had pronunciation issues with. Sepulveda, I pronounced SepulVAYda the first time I said it out loud. Then La Jolla. Well. I don't think I ever said it out loud... I just figured out eventually that La Hoya was La Jolla. I'm sure there are others.
Spike: We got a history, him and me. Fred: What? Spike: It was a long time ago. He was a young Watcher, fresh out of the academy when we crossed paths. It was a, what-you-call battle of wills and blood was spilled. Vendettas were sworn. It was a whole-- Fred: My God you're so full of crap. Spike: Yeah. Okay.
'Unleashed'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
JenP - Aug 20, 2007 7:27:30 pm PDT #5773 of 10001
Lee - Aug 20, 2007 7:35:04 pm PDT #5774 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Cass - Aug 20, 2007 7:36:23 pm PDT #5775 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
The SoCal ones are Spanish. Which? Threw me for a massive loop in the Pacific Northwest where things go a little more Native American.
I do the dog head tilt thing a lot, actually.
I know the basic rules of Spanish. Why the Willamette rhymes with "Dang nabbit?" I will never know.
Cass - Aug 20, 2007 7:37:24 pm PDT #5776 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I just figured out eventually that La Hoya was La Jolla.It's logic though. J sounds like H and two Ls are a Y.
Yeah, this makes sense to me...
JenP - Aug 20, 2007 7:41:16 pm PDT #5777 of 10001
Yeah - I just didn't remember the jo combo in Spanish much, so it threw me, I guess. I'd heard the name a lot, but I never would've spelled that way before I actually saw it spelled. Then again, my hometown is Hockessin, and I forget that it's not obvious how to pronounce it. So.
Cass - Aug 20, 2007 7:43:01 pm PDT #5778 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
How does one say Hockessin???
I admit, my stuff was weird. It just makes sense on a gut level to me cause it always was...
lisah - Aug 20, 2007 7:43:06 pm PDT #5779 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
Don't make me bring up my grandparents' town in Texas, Refugio. It is pronounced, by whitey anyway, "Re-fer-ee-oh." (Shout-out to msbelle!)
ugh. I'm at the part of the document (that is, the last 30 pages or so) that I didn't have a chance to thoroughly edit last night and I know I should just let it go but I can't help but read everything and make changes and, at this rate, I won't be finished until, oh, sometime next week? And I really am getting sleeepy. I just need to let it go and accept the changes.
lisah - Aug 20, 2007 7:43:28 pm PDT #5780 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
HO! Kessin!
Cass - Aug 20, 2007 7:44:16 pm PDT #5781 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
by whitey anywayI fail whitey.
Gimme taquitos?
Cass - Aug 20, 2007 7:45:47 pm PDT #5782 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
HO! Kessin!Scratch that. Taquitos and many, many cervezas.