He's a very famous Klingon painter.
/silly humans.

Bo-ner

FirstNationalBastard: Doctor Who told us that a year ago.

MST3K told us that *several* years ago! (Thank you, Incredible Melting Man.)

Almost as irritating as those Latino news readers who sound like suburban Californian WASP's until a Latino name comes up in the copy. "Locals met at the storied Westmont Hotel today to honor the work of local shipwright Cccwuan Rrrrameeeresss..."

Face it folks: names and places are often pronounced differently in other languages. Deal with it.

Your slideslow sucks.

Heh. I have to admit, I did know this one.

I get the majority of media in Japanese, and they also mutilate names crazily, but often they take the original language version and then Japan-ify it, so it's no doubt terrible but it's terrible in a way very different from the American version, so I can kinda triangulate in sometimes, or at least realize the original has to be something else entirely.

ゴッホ is definitely one of those.

CitizenTed: Almost as irritating as those Latino news readers who sound like suburban Californian WASP's until a Latino name comes up in the copy. "Locals met at the storied Westmont Hotel today to honor the work of local shipwright Cccwuan Rrrrameeeresss..."

I can kinda see where they're coming from - it's hard to completely mangle something to fit in unless it's a well known popular noun like "Paris" where it's almost a translation[1]. That SAID, however, people not trying to make a point usually end up doing some compromise that doesn't completely kill the original but still has American vowels, so it doesn't jar so badly.

I mean, I'm not going to say "To-kee-yo" myself, but certainly the way I say "Tokyo" sounds different in Japanese and English.

[1] of course, if we're talking Paris, IL, it's definitely and originally properly "PEAR-iss." Ditto San Jose, IL, which is "Saan Joe's."

Yeah. Also there's "Versailles, Indiana" which is "Ver-sales."

/helps out the non-locals

itazurakko: Yeah. Also there's "Versailles, Indiana" which is "Ver-sales."

/helps out the non-locals

There is one of those in missouri too. Pronounced ver-sales.

Forty-Two: Both of them mispronounce Cairo, Illinois.

Really? Wow.

Cool to know, though. I was shocked to find myself having to pause a moment to not make the opposite mistake.

/maybe been here too long :)

And "Sade" is pronounced, "Whoa!! She's starting to melt at the edges!"

Mister Mxyzptlk

I'm still going to call him "Boner"

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: FirstNationalBastard: Doctor Who told us that a year ago.

MST3K told us that *several* years ago! (Thank you, Incredible Melting Man.)

Woody Allen was biatching about Diane Keaton's correct pronunciation of the painter's name 30+ years ago, in Manhattan...

*shakes fist at SnakeMan*

Really Subtard? You go to a page titled "How Do You Pronounce That Again?" and complain when you're told how to pronounce something?

What no Eyjafjallajökull?

Chariset: You should hear Stephen Fry trying to pronounce it. He sounds like he's bringing up a hairball

Then he's pretty close. The correct pronunciation is somewhere between bringing up a hairball and clearing a near-fatal phlegm blockage.

Staunton, Virginia is pronounced STAN-tun, not STAWN-tun.

"Rafe"?

OK. Nice find. Liked it.

My personal favorites is "John Boehner ('BAY-nur'), U.S. Rep. (R-OH)", because I had no idea 'rep' was pronounced 'roe'.

/Mr. St. John Smith?

And Mississippi (the state, not the river) is pronounced "Sipi".

New Vegas taught me that Ceasar (what I though was pronounced SEE-SAR) is actually pronounced KAI-SAR.

And people say video games aren't edumacational.

Funny, I thought 'cough with a g' was a pretty good approximation.

Sorry, dead painter, that's as much of an effort as I'm going to make for you.

Art history simply teaches you the incorrect way to say "figures."

correct: fig-YERS
art-historian: FIG-ers

And they're farking pompous about it. Of course, they're pompous about everything...

itazurakko: Yeah. Also there's "Versailles, Indiana" which is "Ver-sales."

/helps out the non-locals

Kentucky's got one as well.

/Incidentally, it's the home of Woodford Reserve
//8 AM on a Sunday... too early?
///Decisions, decisions

LordOfThePings: Your slideslow sucks.

That's why Farker The Voice of Doom created Deslide. (new window)

Makes me so proud to be from America, where the prevailing attitude toward other cultures and languages is "I'm too lazy to bother learning, so I'll just misinterpret, misunderstand and mispronounce, and act all proud about it."

Great example of how to be an "ugly American."

/Yay, willful ignorance!

I agree with the submitter. I hate learning the right way to do things too!

uncre8tv: Art history simply teaches you the incorrect way to say "figures."

correct: fig-YERS
art-historian: FIG-ers

And they're farking pompous about it. Of course, they're pompous about everything...

Yeah, who woulda thought?

I'ma still say Van Go. Tough shiat. And if you try to correct me, I'll say "That's how I said it, I must not have voiced my glottal fricative enough."

There is a Versailles, Ohio which has a "fancy" diner called the Inn at Versailles. The radio ads are totally f-ed. "The Inn at Ver-sigh in Ver-sales, OH."

Also have a Houston (How-ston) and a Russia (Roo-she)nearby.

The only people who say Missourah are non-Missourians.

/lookin' at you newsie types

Also - It's spelled "Luxury Yacht" but it's pronounced "Throatwarbler Mangrove."

Anderson's Pooper: Also - It's spelled "Luxury Yacht" but it's pronounced "Throatwarbler Mangrove."

Damn you.

Pronunciation video goodness (new window)

I don't care, I'm still pronouncing Bono as "bo-no"