lauriesrank Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 So watching some english stuff (it has actually been entertaining 2nd half) and this guy comes on called coates. Apparently pronounced CO-A-Tes..... Eh? what? I've been to coates crescent west end never co-a-tes Reminds me of the Jorge cadete experience, the man who must've had 2948 different pronunciations! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaka Demus & pliers Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Except it is pronounced like that. The guy isn't British you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EH4JAMBO Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Except it is pronounced like that. The guy isn't British you know. Actually he qualifys to play for Scotland his dads from Coatbridge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riddley Walker Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 The guy is from Uruguay and has English heritage. But it is pronounced Co-at-es as they wouldn't say "coats" in an Spanish-speaking country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son Of Anarchy Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Actually he qualifys to play for Scotland his dads from Coatbridge As in Co-at-bridge? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alwaysthereinspirit Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Actually he qualifys to play for Scotland his dads from Coatbridge CO-A-Tesbridge surely? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EH4JAMBO Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Sorry it's his great great grandparents that are scottish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Slim Stylee Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 I've been to coates crescent west end never co-a-tes You should maybe get out more. Get a passport. It's a big world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paolo Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 So watching some english stuff (it has actually been entertaining 2nd half) and this guy comes on called coates. Apparently pronounced CO-A-Tes..... Eh? what? I've been to coates crescent west end never co-a-tes Reminds me of the Jorge cadete experience, the man who must've had 2948 different pronunciations! As others have said, that is how it is pronounced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William H. Bonney Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Bloody foreigners and their daft names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauriesrank Posted January 1, 2015 Author Share Posted January 1, 2015 Got a passport and checked it's pronounced Koats.... Irrespective of that, he plays in England his name should be pronounced as is, not some elaborate nonsense to make him sound foreign! It's bad enough with davie silva! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paolo Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Bloody foreigners and their daft names. That Jos? Mourinho is the worst. Imagine pronouncing a 'J' as an 'H'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosanostra Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Got a passport and checked it's pronounced Koats.... Irrespective of that, he plays in England his name should be pronounced as is, not some elaborate nonsense to make him sound foreign! It's bad enough with davie silva! He's Uruguayan though. It's not an elaborate nonsense to make him sound foreign. Should we not have the decency and manners to try and pronounce people's names the way they'd like them to be pronounced and not just however we want to? When you get something horribly wrong on here, it's best to just step back rather than keep on digging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2NaFish Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 That's how it's pronounced. It'd be rude not to have a go at saying his name the way he says it. It's totally different from things like the trend around the millennium to pronounce debut as day-boo, which is stupid. This is just common courtesy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riddley Walker Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Got a passport and checked it's pronounced Koats.... Irrespective of that, he plays in England his name should be pronounced as is, not some elaborate nonsense to make him sound foreign! It's bad enough with davie silva! But... he is foreign. Did you call Rudi Scay-cel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Sidebottom Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Got a passport and checked it's pronounced Koats.... Irrespective of that, he plays in England his name should be pronounced as is, not some elaborate nonsense to make him sound foreign! It's bad enough with davie silva! An enlightened fellow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossthejambo Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Always enjoy a pronunciation thread where someone moans that people pronounce a player's name right. I mean imagine actually saying someone's name in the right way?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William H. Bonney Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 That Jos? Mourinho is the worst. Imagine pronouncing a 'J' as an 'H'. Pure ignorance. UKIP has my vote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Robbo Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 IBTL and free diversity training http://www.acas.org.uk/elearning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SE16 3LN Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 This thread has great potential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
way out west jambo Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 so it is A-Jax and not Ajax then according to the OP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FWJ Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Don't think I ever heard Ei?ur Gu?johnsen's name pronounced properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabienleclerq Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Obviously that's how the guy pronounces it, strange to have a go at people for pronouncing it that way. On the flip side the Uruguayans changed the pronunciation to "co-atez" to suit them so when the op says "coats" it's the same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tartofmidlothian Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Story about his name here. http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/latest-news/165047-seba-my-roots-are-actually-in-scotland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paolo Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Our name must surely be pronounced He arts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neave Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Archie MacPherson's pronunciation of Jean-Claude Darcheville's surname always made me cringe a bit. Could practically hear the Guardian's typewriters frothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tartofmidlothian Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Scottish commentators can usually be relied upon to feck up a foreign player's name when it's easier to get it right. The Vlad years were a prime example, my favourite was Zaluskas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FWJ Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 so it is A-Jax and not Ajax then according to the OP? Is it Bayern Munich or Bayern M?nchen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tian447 Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 You'd have had great fun as a commentator when we had a team that consisted of players such as Deividas ?esnauskis, K?stutis Iva?kevi?ius and Audrius K?anavi?ius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tartofmidlothian Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 You'd have had great fun as a commentator when we had a team that consisted of players such as Deividas ?esnauskis, K?stutis Iva?kevi?ius and Audrius K?anavi?ius IIRC those three were Says-noss-kis, Ivaskachoos and "the Latvian boy". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2NaFish Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Don't think I ever heard Ei?ur Gu?johnsen's name pronounced properly. No, but a decent effort has been made at getting it right. Good manners isn't learning icelandic, but it certainly means having a fair go at getting it right. I find talk off guardianistas and the lot frankly embarassing. Presumably people opposed to that are also the sort of folk who decry falling values, decency and good manners, and yet they baulk at the idea of trying to say someone's name correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Slim Stylee Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Got a passport and checked it's pronounced Koats.... Irrespective of that, he plays in England his name should be pronounced as is, not some elaborate nonsense to make him sound foreign! It's bad enough with davie silva! God are you that dense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Of The Cat Cafe Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 But it is not just overseas players that the commentators can muck up. Remember David McCreery when he played 44 times for Hearts? Now most people pronounce his surname M'Creery - the small c being silent. Yet watching a Northern Ireland game one night I could not figure out who was the Mick Creery the commentator kept referring to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neave Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 No, but a decent effort has been made at getting it right. Good manners isn't learning icelandic, but it certainly means having a fair go at getting it right. I find talk off guardianistas and the lot frankly embarassing. Presumably people opposed to that are also the sort of folk who decry falling values, decency and good manners, and yet they baulk at the idea of trying to say someone's name correctly. Not sure if the second part was directed at me after I mentioned the Guardian's typewriters. I should probably say it was meant in jest, I'm a Guardian reader and I totally agree with what you're saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2NaFish Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Not sure if the second part was directed at me after I mentioned the Guardian's typewriters. I should probably say it was meant in jest, I'm a Guardian reader and I totally agree with what you're saying. cool cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locky Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 The worst surely had to be Zaliukas. It's not that hard is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airdriejambo3 Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 maybe from this point on we should just do away with foreign names and just number them and use their nationality as a first name, thats the method ive been using with my grandad for 20 years, eg the big french boy at number 26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FWJ Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 No, but a decent effort has been made at getting it right. Good manners isn't learning icelandic, but it certainly means having a fair go at getting it right. I find talk off guardianistas and the lot frankly embarassing. Presumably people opposed to that are also the sort of folk who decry falling values, decency and good manners, and yet they baulk at the idea of trying to say someone's name correctly. Not sure that a decent effort has been made TBH. I'm a Guardian reader too if it helps, but I think pronunciation is a minefield. When does trying to get it right turn into sounding a bit pretentious? How often do we say "FC Gothenburg" when it should be spelled "G?teburg" and pronounced "Yetiboy". Yet we say "Paree San Germang"... Then there's the whole "Basle / Basel / B?le" thing. Like I say, it's a minefield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Brown Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 The worst surely had to be Zaliukas. It's not that hard is it? Have you forgotten about Michael Popsicle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3fingersreid Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 The one that always got me was Lauren Robert of Newcastle Utd His surname is the same as my first name and it's pronounced Robert (saying the letter T) NOT Rober without it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FWJ Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 The one that always got me was Lauren Robert of Newcastle Utd His surname is the same as my first name and it's pronounced Robert (saying the letter T) NOT Rober without it Hypercorrection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosanostra Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 The one that always got me was Lauren Robert of Newcastle Utd His surname is the same as my first name and it's pronounced Robert (saying the letter T) NOT Rober without it I used to work with a French guy called Robert and he pronounced it like Rawberr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3fingersreid Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 HypercorrectionNow I wish I'd paid more attention at school Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maple Leaf Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 A few years ago the Toronto Blue Jays had a player from the Dominican Republic call George Bell. Simple enough name, right? The Spanish speakers called him Horgay Bay-uh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobNox Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 That James Rodriguez is another one. Hammezz he pronounces his name, pretentious pr*ck! Does that mean he gets called Heemmy for short? Or Heem, or Heembo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobNox Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Have you forgotten about Michael Popsicle? He certainly polar-iced opinion amongst commentators! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I P Knightley Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 That Jos? Mourinho is the worst. Imagine pronouncing a 'J' as an 'H'. Eh? He's not Spanish; being Portuguese, he does pronounce the J properly. (That's a 'Jay' not a 'Jye') Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossthejambo Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 The one that always got me was Lauren Robert of Newcastle Utd His surname is the same as my first name and it's pronounced Robert (saying the letter T) NOT Rober without it Since he's French it's pronounced without the T. Unrelated to this post, I think bringing up place names that have English alternatives muddies the water a bit, people don't have different names for when they're in different countries so it's not the same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tartofmidlothian Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 The one that always got me was Lauren Robert of Newcastle Utd His surname is the same as my first name and it's pronounced Robert (saying the letter T) NOT Rober without it Who's she? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martoon Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 I seem to recall Archie Mcpherson calling Jankauskas: yan-******-is. Sounds like an affliction that would make your eyes water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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