how do u say a HOOS

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.

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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.

it's short for HOOSTEEN dammit

I pronounce it like BIG BRUCE aka the 'steendriver

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I'm just saying that I'd assume (lacking knowledge of how they pronounce it) someone pronounces their name in the way someone in the area they were raised would pronounce it, as opposed to the area of origin of their name. Probably a lot of that is due to being American, where most people's names originated in other countries, save for Native Americans and people like my great-grandparents, who got their last name changed at Ellis Island because the immigration workers found it long and unwieldy.

I think in Finland most people pronounce foreign names the way they're pronounced in their respective languages, if they happen to know that language. Maybe Americans tend to "Americanize" foreign names because (from what I've gathered) many Americans don't know any other languages besides English?

I think Americans tend to be more respectful of non-American pronunciations than some other countries that are more homogenous.

to oh muhs.

^^ this is how I've always pronounced it

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Apart from putting on a Mario accent, how the heck else would one pronounce Passantino apart from the only way it can *be* pronounced?

puh-SAN-tih-noh

Seriously? Nawwww. "Pah-san-teen-o".

passanti no

in my head i still read it as "pass a tea no"

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

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Mexican pronunciation of Spanish is different from the Spanish speakers in Europe. That is all I know about the Spanish language.

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Wow.

yeah this is shocking to me tbh

some people have no idea how to speak english, apparently

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