News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on School vs. Wikipedia. Parent comment

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.
[ Parent | on HN ]
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...

[ Parent | on HN ]
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?

[ Parent | on HN ]
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.

[ Parent | on HN ]