wordz

[ender_wiggin04]

Hello!

Did ye all have a fabbo Chrimble? We here did, though my dear adaras_r0se never does sleep during such family trips, that she's been catching up now we're home, and catches yet

Comments

[ansis]

Depends if you're trying to be wanky and pronounce the words as a native of their country of origin would, or if you're anglicizing them. I opt for the latter since it's more patriotic of me and what do furriners know anyways?

Pan-et-tone
Her-my-oh-nee
Frange-ih-pain

[ansis]

My feeble attempt at humour has clearly failed and you thought I was serious. I'm ashamed. This is obviously serious stuff and I will endeavour to match the tone in future.

[ansis]

I won't pain you with the heinous pronunciations of basic French on the news I sit through and try not to burst a blood vessel. People do actually try here, but sometimes that's worse than just not trying at all. :/

[ender_wiggin04]

And I think you have exactly nailed the american (small 'a' if you see what I mean) attitude there. It seems to me that most americans would consider it pretentious to attempt unanglicised pronunciation, whilst most Europeans would consider it isolationist or even ignorant to anglicise a word where the correct orginal pronunciation is accessible and well-known. Both continents have a large number of languages in use...The difference being that all Americans are 'supposed' to integrate and speak English.

I'm not sure how patriotism comes into it. Do you mean patriotic for Canada or New Zealand? I guess it is patriotic in the USA because it indicates that you are willing to subsume your own original foreign culture and integrate.

[ansis]

It was a joke! A joke! I retire defeated and chastened. But I steadfastly refuse to debate how "american" my attitude is. :P