Ah, excellent!! I hope you guys will get it right from now on!! Ellen Degeneres even got the R right! _________________ Toe ek jonk was, het ek al die antwoorde geken. Nou verstaan ek nie eens die vrae nie.
It's quite easy - it's simply pronounced TRON. _________________ Toe ek jonk was, het ek al die antwoorde geken. Nou verstaan ek nie eens die vrae nie.
Now, if only we could teach you Americans to pronounce her surname correctly....
I find it very strange that people make an issue out of her name being mispronounced when she in fact spells her name with an antiquated French spelling that in no way reflects its actual pronounciation in Afrikaans. She should change it into Trron or just live with it.
Concerning all those commercials:
Coming from a culture (Scandinavia) famous for its use of understatement, humour and irony in commercials, I tend to find the "smoking hot" commercials posted here awfully vulgar. They are exactly what Norwegians refer to when they moan about "Americanization". This is our idea of a good commercial (with Norwegian folk music as an extra treat):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3krlhEZ0Gos&NR
(The text at the end says: "The chocolate you don't have to chew.")
And some more modern dancing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr...ZaMs&mode=related&search=
(In the end the speaker says: "Everybody doesn't like that shopping is so fast in our shops".) _________________ Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen. = Those who don't know foreign languages, know nothing of their own. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Now, if only we could teach you Americans to pronounce her surname correctly....
I find it very strange that people make an issue out of her name being mispronounced when she in fact spells her name with an antiquated French spelling that in no way reflects its actual pronounciation in Afrikaans. She should change it into Trron or just live with it.
I guess you're right! Is the surname Theron (a fairly common Afrikaans surname) spelled differently in French today? We do that all the time with surnames, for example the (German) surname Kruger is pronounced without the G in Afrikaans (it becomes Kruer), De Villiers is pronounced in two different ways in Afrikaans, and so on. What happened to Theron was that Afrikaans has no "TH"-sound, so it became Te-ron, with the E eventually falling away. _________________ Toe ek jonk was, het ek al die antwoorde geken. Nou verstaan ek nie eens die vrae nie.
Location: San Francisco, Noord-Kalifornië, Noord-Amerika
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 3:56 am Post subject:
Fredrik wrote:
Concerning all those commercials:
Coming from a culture (Scandinavia) famous for its use of understatement, humour and irony in commercials, I tend to find the "smoking hot" commercials posted here awfully vulgar. They are exactly what Norwegians refer to when they moan about "Americanization". This is our idea of a good commercial (with Norwegian folk music as an extra treat):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3krlhEZ0Gos&NR
(The text at the end says: "The chocolate you don't have to chew.")
Oh, we know Axe as 'Lynx' over here! I've never seen that first commercial, although I found it funny Certainly very good advertisement, lol! And the second commerical, we used to have that over here, but without that music - and obviously, referred to as Lynx, not Axe.
Im going to put up some famous ads from my childhood, which to this day has left an indelible memory on my mind. However the problem with these old Aussie ads is the terrible RP accent that they all carried. Australian accents were stigmatised on commercials until the last 10 or so years.
This was an ad that was played continuously at the time with now an Hollywood actress in it (who appeared in a lot of commercials). Its not her most famous ad, the most famous one being an ad for Australian Lamb where she wins a date with Tom Cruise from a radio competition (who her bestie subsequently married):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuKITlpAENo&NR=1
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Ellen Degeneres even got the R right!
