Can We Get Past This Whole Mispronouncing For Politeness Business?

July 27. 2009 02:52

Be thankful the Canadian brewery Kuntz isn't in business any more ...

zythophile | | | Delete

July 27. 2009 02:52

Have you ever met anyone not named Bob Jones?

Chris | | | Delete

July 27. 2009 02:52

Colon is pronounced like the fragrance as well - it's Spanish, just like Bartolo Colon and like "Cristobal Colon" is Spanish for Christopher Columbus.  Nice post - do some research next time.

josh | | | Delete

July 27. 2009 02:52

In German Koch is pronounced - Coke at least that is how H&K, the company that produces firearms, pronounces it.

mattdabbs | | | Delete

July 27. 2009 02:52

Yeah, I don't know about Colon, but you're definitely 0-for-2 on Koch and Fukudome.

Koch = Cook

Fukudome = Foo-koo-DOH-may

Nice try.

Mark | | | Delete

July 27. 2009 02:52

Ha! Yep, but I love them all anyway!

Sanchez | | | Delete

July 27. 2009 02:52

Actually, Sam Koch's last name is pronounced "cook", as in the guy hanging out next to all the kitchen utensils. Don't ask me why; it's a silly Nebraska thing, I suppose.

(That said, don't let me rain on your parade: resume calling him "cock", by all means)

AJ | | | Delete

July 27. 2009 02:52

Well, I enjoyed it.

May I humbly and politely refer you to my post on a similar, equally improper take on professional athletes' names?

steviethek.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/stevie-the-k%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9call-poopie-xi%e2%80%9d/

BTW, there is a Japanese restaurant near us called "Fugakyu", to which my reply is inevitably, "Fugakyu too!"  ;)

steviethek | | | Delete

July 27. 2009 02:52

I can't read anything but "FuckYouDoMe." but you know, I'm classy that way.

badbadgirlx | | | Delete

July 27. 2009 02:52

So that's 0-3 on name pronunciations. Have you been right about anything, ever?

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt | | | Delete

July 27. 2009 02:52

Boy, most of your readers are really humorless douchebags, aren't they?

steviethek | | | Delete

July 27. 2009 02:52

There is also Sam Koch, the coach of the UMass soccer team, and he pronounces it "coke" as well.

steviethek | | | Delete

July 27. 2009 02:52

This is beautiful. I went to school with a family named Dyche (pronounced "dyke") and when I ran into them 20 years later they pronounced it "Du-chay". Now what's a lesbian supposed to say to that?

GeekPornGirl | | | Delete

July 27. 2009 02:52

It's possible he pronounces Koch as Cock.  It's a family name of mine (we pronounce it Cook) but I've seen it pronounced like it's spelled (as in former NYC mayor Ed Koch) and met people who pronounce it Coke as well.

tidefanintn | | | Delete

July 27. 2009 02:52

Well gee... thanks for sucking the fun out of it everyone.

Sheesh.

Sanchez | | | Delete

July 27. 2009 02:52

You sir are an ignorant slut. Colón is a common Spanish surname, and it's pronounced just like the "polite" announcers are doing it. My guess is that the Steelers player, from the Bronx, is Latino and that they're pronouncing his name correctly.

Cristóbal Colón | | | Delete

July 27. 2009 02:52

Once taught a Chinese student in London called Fanny Fuk Oh. Really. All the teachers had seen enough odd names that just "Fanny Fuk" might not have even got a mention, it was the last exclamation that really got us.

alexcase | | | Delete

July 27. 2009 02:52

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July 27. 2009 02:52

Actually in Japanese it's Foo-koo-doh-may. Think Austin Powers and Fukumi (actually a girl's name in Japanese) and Fukuyu (not even close to a name in J-go). He has it right, it's foo...even if it looks like the f-word.

Anyway, it works in reverse. Anyway named "Deb" here would be laughed at in Japan as that mean "fat" in japanese. Don't even get me started on Ed as "ED = Erectile dysfunction" and there are tons of ads in Japan that call it "Ed." Another anomaly, that whole can't get it up is a "Western" thing, eh, hence the non-translation into a J-term. And that's too much info for most of youse.

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