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Milan Kundera pronunciation comes neat though https://www.pronounceitright.com/pronunciation/milan-kundera-1527 https://www.pronounceitright.com/pronunciation/m
by DrNuke 8y ago
Milan Kundera pronunciation comes neat though https://www.pronounceitright.com/pronunciation/milan-kundera-1527 https://www.pronounceitright.com/pronunciation/milan-kundera... , that’s how we are used over here.
- smcl 8y agoMaybe it's because the name is Czech and we never anglicised his name? I honestly don't know with that one though. English is wildly unpredictable, if we drilled down deep enough we'd find plenty of counter examples that contradicted my reason for how we pronounce pan Kundera's first name :-) However for the city, think of it this way (sorry I'm gonna use some awful phonetic spelling here!) you and all the other Italians use the 100% correct pronunciation of Meelano. Somewhere back in History it became normal to call it "Milan" in English. Calling it Meelan is not only still wrong in Italian, it's also wrong (or nearly unused) in English. It's the same way you have your own word for our city with its own pronunciation - Edimboorgo. If I say "well, that 'u' in the original 'Edinburgh' is pronounced uh so you should call it Edimbuhrgo" then you're now pronouncing it wrong in both Italian and English. For what it's worth I'd prefer it if English kept the original names - Milano, Torino, Roma, Napoli, Firenze, etc :D Edit I realised after typing this that I've heard wealthier Americans pronouncing some of these names even stranger still. Milan becoming Milawwn and Prague becoming Prawwwg which is like nails on a chalkboard to me, so maybe I can identify with you a little bit :-)