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3quilibrium 01-27-2011 12:12 PM
It annoys me when people say Linkin park as Link-In park

+81 01-27-2011 12:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Aurora (Post 991763)
Easyish ones, but "tiga" and "shinichi osawa" always make me doubt myself I say the first like tie-ga and the second like shin-eachy os-ah-wa? Am I right?
I've only heard Tiga pronounce as 'Tee-ga'.

Dayvan Cowboy 01-27-2011 12:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Janszoon (Post 991523)
Ok, I have two more for this thread:

1. Pere Ubu. I have never known how to pronounce the first word in that band's name. I always just get by with sort of mumbling it but I'd love to know how it's really supposed to be pronounced.

2. Sun Ra. Everyone I've ever heard pronounce this has said it as "sun rah" except, and this is a very big exception, on this on live album of his that I have it sounds distinctly like one of his band members is addressing him as "sun ray". And I may be wrong here, but I think the Egyptian god Ra is pronounced "ray" even though, again, everyone always seems to pronounce it "rah".
I think Pere might be french, so it is indeed pronounced as "pair"

The Batlord 01-27-2011 01:48 PM
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Originally Posted by 3quilibrium (Post 992483)
It annoys me when people say Linkin park as Link-In park
Then perhaps they shouldn't spell it like Linkin.

Jag Panzer - I know that in German are supposed to pronounce a "J" as a "Y", but since this is an American band and I have never heard it pronounced, I don't know if they pronounce it the correct way or not.

Urban Hat€monger ? 01-27-2011 02:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Janszoon (Post 991523)
Ok, I have two more for this thread:

1. Pere Ubu. I have never known how to pronounce the first word in that band's name. I always just get by with sort of mumbling it but I'd love to know how it's really supposed to be pronounced.
I've always pronounced it as Pier.
I guess that's my close proximity to France showing.

Seltzer 01-28-2011 07:15 AM
According to wiki, it's derived from the French Père Ubu. And here are a couple more I just thought of:

Kayo Dot (I say kai-yo but it possibly is intended to rhyme with mayo)
Dredg (is it like dredge or dread-g?)
Jaga Jazzist (I'm assuming it's something like yaga yazzist since they're Norwegian)

Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra 01-28-2011 07:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Janszoon (Post 991523)
2. Sun Ra. Everyone I've ever heard pronounce this has said it as "sun rah" except, and this is a very big exception, on this on live album of his that I have it sounds distinctly like one of his band members is addressing him as "sun ray". And I may be wrong here, but I think the Egyptian god Ra is pronounced "ray" even though, again, everyone always seems to pronounce it "rah".
Sun Ra apparently went by many pseudonyms like Sonny Ra. No idea why, Sun Ra is oft inexplicable at times.

Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra 01-28-2011 08:05 AM
On that note, I've always been curious of Univers Zero... Could easily be proncouned Universe Zero, but I always pronounced it Yoon-E-Vairs.

Thom Yorke 01-29-2011 12:55 AM
I pronounced Nirvana like Nir-VAN-a for the longest time.

Janszoon 01-29-2011 06:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Skaligojurah (Post 993011)
On that note, I've always been curious of Univers Zero... Could easily be proncouned Universe Zero, but I always pronounced it Yoon-E-Vairs.
There's a typeface called Univers and it's pronounced "yoo-nih-verz". Maybe the band is pronounced the same.

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Originally Posted by 3quilibrium (Post 992483)
It annoys me when people say Linkin park as Link-In park
How else would you pronounce it?

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Originally Posted by Seltzer (Post 993006)
According to wiki, it's derived from the French Père Ubu. And here are a couple more I just thought of:

Kayo Dot (I say kai-yo but it possibly is intended to rhyme with mayo)
Dredg (is it like dredge or dread-g?)
Jaga Jazzist (I'm assuming it's something like yaga yazzist since they're Norwegian)
I always thought Kayo Dot was pronounced "kay-oh" and Dredg was pronounced the same as "dredge", but I've wondered the exact same think about Jaga Jazzist.


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