Screw pronunciation

whicker · Post by **whicker** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 9:14 pm

If people from other countries can come to the US and mangle our words left and right, why is it okay that a (supposed) Greek chef can get all pissy with me for mispronouncing Gyro?

It's not like I said gyro as in gyrocopter or gyroscope. I said Jeero, which is close enough to "zheer-oh" or "yeero" or whatever the hell it is. Next time I'm ordering the pita sandwich.

AntoineWG · Post by **AntoineWG** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 9:35 pm

You're missing the point of the pronunciation. The G at the beginning is silent.

PHoNyMiKe · Post by **PHoNyMiKe** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 9:41 pm

that'll teach you for ordering a gyro (pronounced jie-row,) next time just order a fucking sammich.

whicker · Post by **whicker** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 1:14 am

When I was in college, the (supposed) Italian person taking my order in the cafeteria always gave me a smirk when I ordered the Mostacholli bake. Mosta-chelli. Moss ta schelli. Just slap that messy shelly slop on my plate, please. Screw pronunciation, it's close enough. At least spaghetti and ravioli sounds pretty close to how it is spelled. No side of "smirks" with those.

Silensho · Post by **Silensho** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:06 pm

AntoineWG wrote:You're missing the point of the pronunciation. The G at the beginning is silent.

why-roscope?

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:47 pm

whicker wrote:When I was in college, the (supposed) Italian person taking my order in the cafeteria always gave me a smirk when I ordered the Mostacholli bake. Mosta-chelli. Moss ta schelli. Just slap that messy shelly slop on my plate, please. Screw pronunciation, it's close enough. At least spaghetti and ravioli sounds pretty close to how it is spelled. No side of "smirks" with those.

There's being slightly off, and there is being way off. Sometimes it helps asking the people how to pronounce it so that you don't offend them.. that's what most non-native not fluent speakers of English do.

Alvein · Post by **Alvein** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 7:50 am

My opinion is, they give you a menu so you can point at it.

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 8:29 am

Sho wrote:
AntoineWG wrote:You're missing the point of the pronunciation. The G at the beginning is silent.
why-roscope?

you are so utterly, ridiculously retarded

a gyroscope has NOTHING to do with a gyro. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

Tallgeese · Post by **Tallgeese** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 9:21 am

sweener2001 wrote:
Sho wrote:
AntoineWG wrote:You're missing the point of the pronunciation. The G at the beginning is silent.
why-roscope?
you are so utterly, ridiculously retarded

a gyroscope has NOTHING to do with a gyro. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

....Lighten up on him, idiot. He was pointing out the first four letters. He never fucking said that they were related besides that, now did he?

As for gyro, I always pronounced it like phonymike described, same with the scope.

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 10:59 am

have you read his post history? he's a moron.

studabaker

stud

raging

rag

pirate

irate

"wow, these words share some letters!!" whoop-dee freaking doo.

alexz721 · Post by **alexz721** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 7:42 pm

I'm Greek-American and when I'm in America, I'll pronounce it jyro and when I'm in Greece I'll pronounce it yeero. Fuck anyone who tells me different.

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 7:48 pm

I think that english is harder to pronounce than spanish. Spanish just has one sound for each vowel, for example. The H is silent though, unless it's next to a C, then it sounds like "CHeap".

whicker · Post by **whicker** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 9:02 pm

Metatron wrote:
sweener2001 wrote:
Sho wrote:
AntoineWG wrote:You're missing the point of the pronunciation. The G at the beginning is silent.
why-roscope?
you are so utterly, ridiculously retarded

a gyroscope has NOTHING to do with a gyro. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
....Lighten up on him, idiot. He was pointing out the first four letters. He never fucking said that they were related besides that, now did he?

As for gyro, I always pronounced it like phonymike described, same with the scope.

Not entirely true, they are derived from the same kind of thinking.

Gyro- is to go around, so to speak. Whether it's a rotating hunk of meat over a heat source, a highly balanced spinning wheel, or an airplane hybrid with whirring blades overhead, the actual thought is the same.

...I just wish I could roll R's and pronounce burrito right.

AntoineWG · Post by **AntoineWG** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 9:08 pm

Bah. I like my Mexican food Americanized. When Taco Bell doesn't roll the R in burrito, I don't.

PHoNyMiKe · Post by **PHoNyMiKe** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 1:01 am

alexz721 wrote:I'm Greek-American and when I'm in America, I'll pronounce it jyro and when I'm in Greece I'll pronounce it yeero. Fuck anyone who tells me different.

you can pronounce whatever you want however you want. it's all the same. all of us are just telling you what that dude at the gyroshop told you:

you are a fucking asshat

and you fuck clown shoes.

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 2:10 am

AntoineWG wrote:Bah. I like my Mexican food Americanized. When Taco Bell doesn't roll the R in burrito, I don't.

The thing is, TACO BELL isn't Mexican food. !!!

MisterJones · Post by **MisterJones** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 2:13 am

Indeed. Who in the hell would eat a burrito in mexico?

Now, I would die for a few tamales de masa.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 2:14 am

Joe Camacho wrote:
AntoineWG wrote:Bah. I like my Mexican food Americanized. When Taco Bell doesn't roll the R in burrito, I don't.
The thing is, TACO BELL isn't Mexican food. !!!

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Clements · Post by **Clements** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 2:29 am

I heard that Taco Bell was the only restaurant to survive the franchise wars, and so now all restaurants are Taco Bell.

MisterJones · Post by **MisterJones** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 2:40 am

He doesn't know how to use the three seashells!

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 3:09 am

Clements wrote:I heard that Taco Bell was the only restaurant to survive the franchise wars, and so now all restaurants are Taco Bell.

That, and underground rat burger stands.

Ichinisan · Post by **Ichinisan** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 3:53 pm

gear-o

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 7:11 pm

Ichinisan wrote:gear-o

METAL GEAR-O?!

Silensho · Post by **Silensho** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:52 am

sweener2001 wrote:have you read his post history? he's a moron.

studabaker

stud

raging

rag

pirate

irate

"wow, these words share some letters!!" whoop-dee freaking doo.

Am I? Whatever.
I don't know if I feel "specially loved" or "really freakin' scared" since you bothered to read my previous posts.

And to be honest, I thought you actually were talking about the gyroscope. Seems I had a (or keep having) bit of a problem understanding the post contents. Oh well. Too bad phpbb2 doesn't have an ignore feature (AFAIK), so those who seem distraught by my posts could simply push the little button and worry not about me.

neoblaze · Post by **neoblaze** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 4:07 am

gayrow