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Hmm ... there are English pronunciations of foreign words that are considered correct in English, even though they differ from the way the words are pronounced
by akolbe 4y ago
Hmm ... there are English pronunciations of foreign words that are considered correct in English, even though they differ from the way the words are pronounced in their original language. In other words, the mispronunciations have become the standard, and the correct pronunciation is considered "wrong" in English. This might have been one of those cases.
- LtWorf 4y agoIf your theory was true, the phonetic pronunciation wouldn't have been there.
- akolbe 4y agoI'm intrigued now. :) Was it Turandot? That's one where the pronunciation is controversial, according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turandot#Origin_and_pronunciation_of_the_name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turandot#Origin_and_pronunciat...
- LtWorf 4y agoI said I'm a native italian speaker. -_-' You want to trick me with a french word? As if an italian would be unable to tell a word in italian from one in a different language?
- akolbe 4y agoTurandot is an opera by Puccini; the word is of Persian origin, and the Wikipedia article I linked extensively discusses how Puccini intended for the title to be pronounced in Italian. Cf. https://medicine-opera.com/2008/12/turandot-without-the-t/ https://medicine-opera.com/2008/12/turandot-without-the-t/ But never mind.