xpare you seriously complaining about the pronunciation of tolkein place names
― glumdalclitch, Friday, 23 December 2016 16:05 (seven years ago) link
In his song of the same name, Robin Gibb pronounces "Farmer Ferdinand Hudson", "Farmer FERNIDAD Hudson". This is even more obvious in the full 12 minute three part version released on his recent boxset, because it's the very first line of the second part of the song, "Farmer FERNIDAD Hudson"... I mean, WTFLOL?!?!?
― The Manner of Crawly (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 17:39 (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Friday, 23 December 2016 16:06 (seven years ago) link
Peter Hammill pronounces 'defecating' as 'deefecating' on "Still Life" by Van der Graaf Generator. Bad enough if he'd pronounced it correctly tbh.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Friday, 23 December 2016 16:12 (seven years ago) link
yeah coz he's well posh
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Friday, 23 December 2016 16:19 (seven years ago) link
"Fernidad" is killing me right now. That's a proper mispronunciation.
― emil.y, Friday, 23 December 2016 16:20 (seven years ago) link
are you seriously complaining about the pronunciation of tolkein place names
― glumdalclitch
i'm not the one who decided to do a song about fucking minas tirith!
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Friday, 23 December 2016 16:22 (seven years ago) link
I've noticed that virtually everyone, outside of Scotland, pronounces "Auld Lang Syne" as "Auld Lang Zyne", for no apparent reason.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Friday, 23 December 2016 16:42 (seven years ago) link
Would it be churlish to complain that Michael Jackson places the stress on the first syllable of 'entire' in Heal the World?
― the year of diving languorously (ledge), Friday, 23 December 2016 16:51 (seven years ago) link
D.Boon on "The Glory of Man" "the space measurer"
Which is according to Watt "MW: He goes MAY - surer. The Space MAY - surer. He's literally reading it off the page for the second or third time!"
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 23 December 2016 18:01 (seven years ago) link
róisín murphy in "overpowered" saying oxytoxin instead of oxytocin
― 1staethyr, Friday, 23 December 2016 18:58 (seven years ago) link
Backstreet's Back - "So everybody everywhere, don't be afraid, don't have no Fe-AIR"
― Pheeel, Friday, 23 December 2016 19:09 (seven years ago) link
There's several examples of James Dean Bradfield mangling or mispronouncing words on Manic Street Preachers stuff.
"ambulance" pronounced as "am-boo-lonce""pendulum" pronounced with a hard D."Richard Gere" pronounced with a soft G so it sounds like "Richard Jeer"
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Friday, 23 December 2016 19:17 (seven years ago) link
There's a great scene in The Filth & The Fury where John Lydon describes rhyming "anarchist" with "antichrist" and the band thinking it was wrong.
― dinnerboat, Friday, 23 December 2016 19:25 (seven years ago) link
Gronlandic Edit by of Montreal - gro-sha-rees for groceries
― mr.raffles, Wednesday, August 29, 2012 2:24 PM (four years ago)
how is that wrong?
― sarahell, Friday, 23 December 2016 20:16 (seven years ago) link
It's how Sean Connery would sing it.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Friday, 23 December 2016 20:43 (seven years ago) link
why do I find this so funny
― forgive me fader for I have sinned (wins), Friday, 23 December 2016 20:46 (seven years ago) link
it's like something a memester would contrive
― forgive me fader for I have sinned (wins), Friday, 23 December 2016 20:47 (seven years ago) link
Sonny Bono: "Grandmas sit in chairs and rem-o-nisce" - The Beat Goes On
― Josefa, Saturday, 24 December 2016 04:14 (seven years ago) link
My favourite example of this has to be Infinity by Guru Josh. Because (1) who in the world pronounces it "goo-roo"? and (2) IT'S HIS OWN NAME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2CIiES_xxk
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 24 December 2016 10:09 (seven years ago) link
Just found out Guru Josh committed suicide :((((
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Saturday, 24 December 2016 11:54 (seven years ago) link
What a jam
― niels, Saturday, 24 December 2016 12:05 (seven years ago) link
That Nancy and Lee song about the Green-wich songwriter, they even comment on it halfway in then Lee says 'I dunno, I didn't write it.'
― Mark G, Saturday, 24 December 2016 12:45 (seven years ago) link
'dunker shane' by wayne newton
― estela, Saturday, 24 December 2016 13:17 (seven years ago) link
It's not incorrect, but I'm always bothered by the stranglers 'lahst' and 'mahst'. I can see pronouncing one that way, but both bothers me for some reason.
― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Saturday, 24 December 2016 13:23 (seven years ago) link
Um, both are correct. Does anyone pronounce them differently to each other?
― Mark G, Saturday, 24 December 2016 13:28 (seven years ago) link
I do - mast always with a short a. They would rhyme fine if he did them both that way.
― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Saturday, 24 December 2016 13:38 (seven years ago) link
Last seems to change a lot though. Like I said it's not incorrect, I'm just not sure I've ever heard anyone say mahst.
― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Saturday, 24 December 2016 13:39 (seven years ago) link
I've backed myself into a corner I can't defend here...it just sounds really queer and forced to me.
― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Saturday, 24 December 2016 13:54 (seven years ago) link
I saw Lee Hazlewood perform in New York once and he sang "Houston" - which he did write - and he pronounced it How-ston as a little joke for the locals
― Josefa, Saturday, 24 December 2016 15:50 (seven years ago) link
How is "guru" supposed to be pronounced? I say "goo-roo"
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Saturday, 24 December 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
all-time favorite is nivea "laudromat" (pronounced "laundry-mat")
― k3vin k., Saturday, 24 December 2016 19:33 (seven years ago) link
Well I can find both /ˈɡʊ.ɹuː/ and /ˈɡuː.ɹuː/ cited online, but have a listen to Infinity and tell me it sounds right
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 24 December 2016 19:57 (seven years ago) link
He seems to be saying gu-roooahhhh.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Saturday, 24 December 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link
i for one am shocked that Paul Walden, Jersey-born son of dentist Harold Walden, may not have pronounced "Guru" according to Sanskrit orthodoxy
― Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 24 December 2016 20:00 (seven years ago) link
Britney in "PIece of Me" - derrière = dairy-er
Apparently some people say it that way, but it still sounds funny
― Josefa, Saturday, 24 December 2016 22:05 (seven years ago) link
"hyperbowl"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLK3LymaVAA
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 24 December 2016 22:27 (seven years ago) link
those words are her own, she can pronounce freely
― niels, Sunday, 25 December 2016 09:09 (seven years ago) link
It sounds the same as Marc Bolan's pronunciation in "Metal Guru" to me? I think most North Americans would accent the first syllable instead of the second but afaict, the two syllables sound to me like they have about equal emphasis when Indian people pronounce them, so neither really sounds 'better' than the other to me.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Sunday, 25 December 2016 20:00 (seven years ago) link
I was wondering wtf was up with the Weekend pronouncing Wrath of Khan as Wraith of Khan, but apparently it's a deliberate reference to the roof of his Rolls Royce. ⭐
― Manitobiloba (Kim), Monday, 26 December 2016 03:53 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoA_zY6tqQwDead Kennedys - California Über Alles
The singer pronounces the letter "ü" as if it was "u", even though they are two different sounds. Maybe it's unfair to criticise an American for not knowing how to pronounce German, but they shouldn't have had their chorus in that language then. The mispronounciation is even more pronounced in the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy song that samples the Dead Kennedys tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBAkOifDeSw
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 09:10 (seven years ago) link
Dead Kennedys - California Über Alles
The singer pronounces the letter "ü" as "u", even though they are two different sounds. The mispronounciation is even more pronounced in the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy tune that samples Dead Kennedys:
Maybe it's unfair to criticise Americans for mispronouncing German, but OTOH you shouldn't have you chorus in a foreign language if you don't know how it's pronounced.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 09:14 (seven years ago) link
― Manitobiloba (Kim), Monday, 26 December 2016 03:53 (yesterday) Permalink
Wraith is the name of a Rolls-Royce car model
― Lee626, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 09:41 (seven years ago) link
o_0
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 10:03 (seven years ago) link
?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 11:06 (seven years ago) link
taking a small amount of time to learn how to say something you intend to record yourself saying is a good way to avoid looking like an incurious rube but the counterpoint to that would be wgaf, most of the egs itt add character to the song
― forgive me fader for I have sinned (wins), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 11:14 (seven years ago) link
With the DK/Disposable Hiphoprisy example it certainly comes off as rubish, since they want the chorus to be a "smart" piece of satire by citing the words of the Nazi-era German national anthem, yet they couldn't be arsed to find out the correct pronounciation. And it's not like it's a long and complex sentence to be memorised, just two short words! (They even get the "alles" more or less correct.)
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 11:26 (seven years ago) link
A lot of anglophones have trouble with ü so it might not be for lack of trying
― forgive me fader for I have sinned (wins), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 11:42 (seven years ago) link
That's odd, because the "ü" sound is quite similar to the common "ew" sound in English (such as in "few", "screw", "news" etc).
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 12:09 (seven years ago) link
So it basically pronounced ew-behr, shouldn't be too hard.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 12:11 (seven years ago) link
Then again, lot of English speakers seem to think that "ä" and "ö" are intechangeable with "a" and "o" instead of denoting completely different sounds, so I guess they just assume it's the same with "ü" and "u" instead of bothering to find out?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 12:14 (seven years ago) link