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...
Mal: If anyone gets nosy, just, you know... shoot 'em. Zoe: Shoot 'em? Mal: Politely.
'Serenity'
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.
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.
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.
lisah - Aug 20, 2007 7:46:06 pm PDT #5783 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
Fortunately the bad pronounciating whiteys still are allowed taquitos in Refugio (well, taquitos is not really a thing there but, my god, the tamales. Plus all the other Mexican food I grew up on there.)
Hil R. - Aug 20, 2007 7:46:33 pm PDT #5784 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
How does one pronounce Sepulveda?
Pix - Aug 20, 2007 7:48:28 pm PDT #5785 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
I know the basic rules of Spanish. Why the Willamette rhymes with "Dang nabbit?" I will never know.
Growing up in Connecticut (which is, according to InfoPlease, "from an Indian word [Quinnehtukqut] meaning 'beside the long tidal river'"), I have the opposite problem. I get the Native American names for the most part, but I've felt like a total idiot trying to pronounce names in SoCal. ND laughed his ass off at my first attempt at "Cahuenga."