School vs. Wikipedia

Re:School vs. Wikipedia by akolbe on Saturday October 08, 2022 @07:00PM (#33136873)

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.

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Re:School vs. Wikipedia by LtWorf on Sunday October 09, 2022 @04:12PM (#33144795)

If your theory was true, the phonetic pronunciation wouldn't have been there.

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Re:School vs. Wikipedia by akolbe on Sunday October 09, 2022 @07:21PM (#33146244)

I'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_pronunciat...

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Re:School vs. Wikipedia by LtWorf on Monday October 10, 2022 @05:57AM (#33149579)

I 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?

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Re:School vs. Wikipedia by akolbe on Monday October 10, 2022 @08:12AM (#33150357)

Turandot 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/

But never mind.

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