Tom Geiger Posted May 17, 2014 Posted May 17, 2014 Since we've suffered through 8 pages already.... how do you say DECAL. Most everyone I know says DEE-CAL One clown we know says Deh-CAL (and he'll correct everyone he can on the spot! Needs a good whack!) and we've head that some Canadians call them deckels (as in Heckel and Jeckel) Let the games begin...
oldscool Posted May 18, 2014 Posted May 18, 2014 Deh-cal seems to be an Australian thing. I used to work with a guy who would argue all day long that Porche was pronounced porsh and he was a Car and Driver reading, pipe smoking euro car snob. You'd think he would have known better.
Tom Geiger Posted May 18, 2014 Posted May 18, 2014 Which reminds me of the little Italian pizzeria / restaurant I worked in when I was 18. The two owners were insistent on the pronunciation of Italian food words.. my mother was Italian so I was good, but the two brothers schooled everyone else in the proper way to say things like "manicotti" and "parmesan", and they wouldn't even serve it to customers who said it wrong. So if someone was in the dining room and tried to order man-a-cotti, he'd just shake his head and tell them that they didn't have that. And there were the folks who wanted par-mes-ian cheese... nope, we didn't have that either. And you could see Joey's face turn red when someone asked for "sprinkle cheese".
sjordan2 Posted May 18, 2014 Posted May 18, 2014 I don't get overly exercised about stuff like this, but it seems to me if you want to have a little expertise in a subject of great interest to you, you should know how to pronounce it properly. But that's minor. One of the more interesting revelations and corrections of the past couple of years was this: On accepting an achievement award for the invention of the .gif, the first thing its elderly creator said upon taking the podium was: "And it's pronounced Jif, not giff [with a hard g]." Even some Interweb pros I know don't know that.
Jeff Johnston Posted May 18, 2014 Posted May 18, 2014 I always said Ta My Ya. I saw a video on HLJ where they said TaMeeya. I still say Ta my ya...
Agent G Posted May 18, 2014 Posted May 18, 2014 The preceding eight pages are proof positive why aliens fly right by us and make no attempt to communicate. G
martinfan5 Posted May 18, 2014 Posted May 18, 2014 On 5/18/2014 at 9:32 PM, Agent G said: The preceding eight pages are proof positive why aliens fly right by us and make no attempt to communicate. GYou my friend win the internet for a day
Harry P. Posted May 19, 2014 Posted May 19, 2014 It's no wonder that we can't agree on the correct pronunciation of a Japanese name... we can't even agree on the pronunciation of an American name! Willys. It's pronounced "willis," as in "whatchoo talkin 'bout, Willis?" Not "willeez."
martinfan5 Posted May 19, 2014 Posted May 19, 2014 On 5/19/2014 at 12:14 AM, Harry P. said: It's no wonder that we can't agree on the correct pronunciation of a Japanese name... we can't even agree on the pronunciation of an American name! Willys. It's pronounced "willis," as in "whatchoo talkin 'bout, Willis?" Not "willeez."I see your post , and raise you a "Murica"
sjordan2 Posted May 19, 2014 Posted May 19, 2014 If you listen carefully to the Japanese pronunciations, you'll pretty much get it right if you pronounce the following without any inflection or emphasis: "TAHM-YAH." The "Y" will take care of the "i" sound.
Harry P. Posted May 19, 2014 Posted May 19, 2014 Why didn't they make it easy on all of us and just call it the Acme Model Company?
Danno Posted May 20, 2014 Posted May 20, 2014 (edited) You say "Tameeya," I say 'tomato.' Let's call the whole thing off. Edited May 20, 2014 by Danno
kruleworld Posted May 20, 2014 Posted May 20, 2014 On 2/16/2012 at 4:32 PM, Rob McKee said: I second Ta-me-a i changed my pronunciation once i heard a Japanese guy pronounce it that way.
mnwildpunk Posted May 20, 2014 Posted May 20, 2014 On 2/18/2012 at 4:58 AM, Harry P. said: "Burick" doesn't make any more sense than "Bruick." Where do they see the "R" in B-U-I-C-K???? http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/#EMO_DIR#/blink.png same place that people up here see the R in wash and it becomes warsh
mnwildpunk Posted May 20, 2014 Posted May 20, 2014 Huh what about. Merkur I've heard it mer-ker mur-koo-or , meek-er and don't get me started on Peugeot
Harry P. Posted May 20, 2014 Posted May 20, 2014 Mehr-koor. Poo-zhoh. Ow-dee (rhymes with "howdy," not "naughty"). But what drives me crazy is the car ads where the British voiceover guy smugly says "Jag-yooo-ah."
Danno Posted May 20, 2014 Posted May 20, 2014 Peugeot. Poo-joe. At least, according to the Poo-joe people. At Pikes Peak, they pronounced it "fast."
mnwildpunk Posted May 21, 2014 Posted May 21, 2014 No lie I heard pronounced as pwe-got a couple times
Tonioseven Posted May 21, 2014 Posted May 21, 2014 (edited) On 2/16/2012 at 3:52 PM, Scale-Master said: Actually... And this is from one of the Mr. Tamiyas...Ta-me-a No emphasis on any syllable. It is Japanese, not English so the rules are a little bit different.. Yep. Edited May 21, 2014 by Tonioseven
Brett Barrow Posted May 21, 2014 Posted May 21, 2014 Japanese pronunciation is very simple compared to English. There's only 5 vowel sounds in Japanese, it's not like English with its "long" and "short" vowels, dipthongs, schwas, etc.. I think there are something like 17 different vowel sounds in English. "i" always makes an "ee" sound. Everybody knows how to say "sushi" properly, and it's not "sue-shy"! To me, native Japanese speakers sound like they're saying "Tommy-uh" when saying Tamiya.
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