Mar 20, 2008 8:39:13 AM
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Mar 20, 2008 8:39:13 AM
Mar 20, 2008 9:22:06 AM
Mar 20, 2008 10:50:51 AM
Mar 20, 2008 1:13:03 PM
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easy_rider911 said:
There is only one correct way to pronounce it (i.e. "Porsh-uh"). Even though many people say "Porsh", it's not because it's an equally valid alternative. It's because they just aren't aware of how it is correctly pronounced. Just remember "Porsche" is a person's name (not a word like "either" that can correctly be pronounced in 2 ways) so it only has one correct way of pronounciation.
Mar 20, 2008 1:30:50 PM
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amazon said: N'importe quoi ...
It's the americans & the british who invented porsch-uh because they had no idea how to prononce it.
In french, it' porsch. I think in german it's prononce that way too.
Porsch-uh always made me laugh. It's like saying 9/11 instead of 911. It's not a date, but a number.
Obviously it's easier to prononce 9/11 in english.
Mar 20, 2008 1:41:12 PM
Mar 20, 2008 2:10:55 PM
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Mar 20, 2008 2:33:17 PM
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69bossnine said:
Hate to break the bad news to you, but the joke and the laughing is on you....
Germans pronounce the "e", just as bitte (please) is pronounced "bit-ah", Porsche is most CERTAINLY pronounced "porsh-ah", or "uh", or whatever combination of letters gets you there...
Furthermore, it's us Yanks that most CERTAINLY contributed to the MIS-pronunciation, as our language does not recognize the "e" at the end of words, rendering it silent... As such, your average schmutz in the U.S. will holler "Hey, bud, nice Poursh!!" and then burp-up his Sonny's BBQ he just wolfed at lunch..
4 years of high-school german from a native-born teacher finally comes to some use... Thanks Frau Chesser!!
Mar 20, 2008 3:01:36 PM
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JoeRockhead said:
Oh yeah, while we're on the topic, here's another one. Gallardo. Gah-lahr-doh.
Jeremy Clarkson says GUY-ar-doh. Is that a British thing? The Italian pronunciation is nowhere near that.
Mar 20, 2008 8:18:45 PM
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wtsnet said:
When refering to what I drive, I just leave it as 'The car'. Everyone knows what I drive, so no need to draw attention to the fact! I feel such a spanner deliberately calling it a Porsche, no matter how I pronounce it!
Mar 21, 2008 1:54:43 AM
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JoeRockhead said:
Oh yeah, while we're on the topic, here's another one. Gallardo. Gah-lahr-doh.
Jeremy Clarkson says GUY-ar-doh. Is that a British thing? The Italian pronunciation is nowhere near that.
Mar 21, 2008 2:02:24 AM
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JoeRockhead said:
Oh yeah, while we're on the topic, here's another one. Gallardo. Gah-lahr-doh.
Jeremy Clarkson says GUY-ar-doh. Is that a British thing? The Italian pronunciation is nowhere near that.
All Lamborghinis have Spanish names (bull names in fact). So JC is probably correct.
Mar 21, 2008 3:02:10 AM
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Finalmente, para quien no crea lo que he escrito en el párrafo superior, por favor, váyase a la escuela y aprenda idiomas extranjeros, correctamente y concienzudamente, antes de dar una opinión incorrecta y lucir como un completo ignorante. Just my simple advise!
I promise I'll never ask a question about a foreign language again until I go to so school to become completely fluent in it, lest I look ignorant.
Mar 21, 2008 7:29:20 AM
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cibergypsy said:
Finalmente, para quien no crea lo que he escrito en el párrafo superior, por favor, váyase a la escuela y aprenda idiomas extranjeros, correctamente y concienzudamente, antes de dar una opinión incorrecta y lucir como un completo ignorante. Just my simple advise!
Mar 21, 2008 8:24:59 AM
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madadd said:
In France they say Pa-reeee for Paris.
Mar 21, 2008 8:35:01 AM
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wtsnet said:
When refering to what I drive, I just leave it as 'The car'. Everyone knows what I drive, so no need to draw attention to the fact! I feel such a spanner deliberately calling it a Porsche, no matter how I pronounce it!
In southern England you can call it a Porsche-uh, but up North you just sound like a twat doing so (for want of a better phrase!). I can't think of anyone (except my OPC) up here that uses the 'uh'.
In France they say Pa-reeee for Paris. But we don't. And New-gaar for Nougat (up north we say nugget).
Maybe I'm just common!
...Mad
Mar 21, 2008 8:43:51 AM
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easy_rider911 said:
But that's only because the letter P doesn't exist in Arabic so the letter B is used for both P and B. So, for example, you drink Bebsi whereas we drink Pepsi
BTW, the letter P does exist in Persian and Urdu...
Mar 21, 2008 9:20:04 AM
Mar 21, 2008 10:10:53 AM
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easy_rider911 said:
But that's only because the letter P doesn't exist in Arabic so the letter B is used for both P and B. So, for example, you drink Bebsi whereas we drink Pepsi
BTW, the letter P does exist in Persian and Urdu...
And another thing, WHY are Arabic speakers unable (or are they just unwilling) to pronounce the P sound just because the letter P doesn't exist in Arabic. That has never made sense to me. I guess the only explanation must be again that the Arabic speakers have effectively created their own word substituting the letter B for the letter P.
In English, we don't have a letter like KH (in Arabic, pronounced 'kheh') but we are still perfectly happy to pronounce it the way it is pronounced in Arabic.