how do u say a HOOS

haha i believed you for 30 seconds and was thinking of all the macs in my family and wondering why they would have started pronouncing them after they got of the boat or something ^_^

that was pretty irresponsible of me, i apologise to those who are learning irish :(

I pronounce harbl "harbl"

Harbl like marble

i say "cat barf"

^_^

Sometimes I say "horrible" but that's as saucy as I get.

i always assumed a variation of 'horrible' with maybe a southern US accent tbh.

I rhyme it with Marble. OMG why do I keep reading and posting on this thread! This is like the most uninteresting shit ever and yet I can't stop. gah.

third new ILE board description in this thread alone iirc

OMG why do I keep reading and posting on this thread! This is like the most uninteresting shit ever

taking u off my xmas list, ENBB

and u too, jordan s!!

just one entree, sounds like an order at a restaurant

LOL Justing obv I don't find it that uninteresting because I keep coming back!!! <3

errr Justine

only if u are irish and you pronounce "three" like "tree" lol xpost

only if you are irish and are reeeally reaching to make it work, would be more accurate i think.

just one in three irish people have a problem with their 'th's'

true but i read all irishes' posts in the voice of my grandpa and he couldn't say th

read it again.

one in tree

Sip the Hoos cuz I got enough to go around,
And the thought takes place Uptown
I grew up on the sidewalk where I learned street talk,
And then taught to hawk New York-
I go to Queens for queens to get the crew from Brooklyn,
Make money in Manhattan and never been tooken,
Go Uptown and the Bronx to boogie down,
Get strong on the Island, recoup, and lay around.
Time to build my Hoos back up-
Props back up, suckers get smacked up

How do you say Geir? 'Gear', 'Guyer' or 'Gayer'?

as long as you say it with a bit of rythym

Since it's supposed to be short for "Hoosteen", I say it the proper way, i.e. "haws".

explain?

In countries were Hoosteen is a common name the "Hoos" part is pronounced "haws", or something close to it. Certainly not "h-ews" or "h-uice".

oh i didn't know it was a real name! i think we figured on some other thread it translated to faucet-diamond or something in dutch

well that would be if it was big faucet aka the diamond-driver because there's only one s in the middle otherwise

here it is hoos international

it is pronounced Ga-ear Herngru fwiw

Similarly, I wouldn't pronounce "Dom Passantino" the way English-speakers do, rather than the Italian way (or, rather, my approximation of Italian), because it's an Italian name, even though Dom himself might pronounce it the English way. That's just the way I've learned to say things.

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Actually, not that I think of it, I'm not completely sure if Hoosteen really is a Dutch name. I know Joosteen is, and I simply thought Hoosteen was a variation of it.

well iirc it comes from justin pronounced in spanish so j is like h and i is like "ee"

Would a Spanish speaker really pronounce the "u" in Justin as a double "o"?

no but i mean if you were reading it as if you were pronouncing it in spanish. oo is not exactly the same as spanish u but a good approximation for english speakers.

http://www.retroist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/jawa-cake.jpg

Isn't the Spanish "u" much shorter than "oo" though? Wouldn't "Hewsteen" be better?

yes but ew in english is like eu or oh. it's the closest thing is all.

So it's either too long or too soft?

The vowel.

no i meant oh like as in sew but ew doesn't really sound like oh there. there's just no other way to write it! this is dumb but english is fascinating lol. hewsteen wouldn't work.

That's what I meant: there's no proper way to phonetically write the Spanish "u" in English - "oo" is too long and "ew" is too soft.

I think Spanish is much easier for Finns, because the Spanish vowels are pronounced pretty much the same as Finnish vowels.

Two-AH-mas

^

"ice crehm"

two oh mas

Almost, but it's more like to oh muhs.

Similarly, I wouldn't pronounce "Dom Passantino" the way English-speakers do, rather than the Italian way (or, rather, my approximation of Italian), because it's an Italian name, even though Dom himself might pronounce it the English way. That's just the way I've learned to say things.

I try and pronounce people's names the way they pronounce them.

But do you know how Dom pronounces his last name, or how Hoos pronounces Hoos? I don't, so it seems natural to prefer the pronounciation that sounds more "right" to me. Of course if I knew these people in real life and knew how they pronounce their names, I would use those versions.