How can a car show presenter not pronounce a car brand propperly.
Even mat Leblanc gets it right but why not Chris Evans.
I would like to vomit every time I hear Porsch.
That's just like calling a:
Ferrar
Lamborthschin
Corve
Lotu
Jagua
Mercede
Aud
BM
Tesl
For
Dodg
Not sure where to start this one, so I 'll just stick to grinning.
"Gizza job! I can do that!"
I think it was just a way of shortening the name.
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Its how idiots who know nothing about cars say the name. You'd never catch the original 3 making such a stupid mistake.
shareCan't tell if serious.
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lol
Your right to an opinion does not equal an opinion that is right
Its actually pronounced PorchA not Porcheeeeeee
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actually, if I remember well, James May did it wrong in his first series but he learned fast :)
shareSo if anyone, regardless of their station in life or their experience with motor vehicles, pronounces it without the last syllable, they somehow 'know nothing about cars'. Sure, makes sense if you're some kind of precious self righteous idiot.
...then whoa, differences...
Porsch is generally how us Americans pronounce it, mainly because most see it as "PorchE, shouldn't be pronounced PorschA"
Whether people want to admit it or not, American English is a different language than British English, even though Porsche is German, we still pronounce things differently.
Porsch is generally how us Americans pronounce it, mainly because most see it as "PorchE, shouldn't be pronounced PorschA"
Whether people want to admit it or not, American English is a different language than British English, even though Porsche is German, we still pronounce things differently.
I know it is supposed to be PorschA, and I do some of the time. I usually pronounce it "Porch", like where rocking chairs are found. Sometimes I pronounce Chevrolet as "Chevy." I'm weird like that.
shareNo, only Americans who don't know the language. I am not the only one over here who knows it's wrong. The people who do this also abbreviate everything else and give all their friends nicknames. Because its shorter.
It's not just the right way, it's A Guy's Name. There are no options, opinions or regional variations. If the hispanic newscasters get to say Mehico (Mexico) then we get to insist everyone say Porscha.
didnt Clarkson always pronounce Porsche as Volkswagen or Beetle on the show
Channel Six News, they'll finger anything with a pulse!
One vowel and you're ready to vomit? Maybe don't watch a show with more than one manner of spoken English. Joey (Matt) has already said "Jag-War" a few times - OMG THE HORROR! ;-)
P.S. It's "properly" not "propperly".
Aye Captain_Bo 😀
shareOne vowel and you're ready to vomit? Maybe don't watch a show with more than one manner of spoken English. Joey (Matt) has already said "Jag-War" a few times - OMG THE HORROR! ;-)
P.S. It's "properly" not "propperly".
Pronunciation of cars could start a tiny little war ;-)
Porsh / Por-shah
Jag-war / Jag-yua
Aw-dee / Ow-dee
Mawz-duh / Mahz-dah
Nee-sawn / Niss'n
Poo-jo / Peur-zsho
Ka-mero / Ka-mah-ro
..and my fav..
Suubuh-roo / Suu-BAR-roo (Kiwi-speak)
And while we're at it, "Sabine" (in German) is pronounced "Sabine-ah" like Porshe.
You don't see her freaking out about it like the lunatic OP about the brand of a car.
...then whoa, differences...
I've lived in the UK and US about equally in my lifetime, and I can honestly say I didn't know it was Porsh-ah until coming to the US. By German pronunciation rules, that is correct, except that in Britain, everyone says "Porsh" and this is likely because Brits originally didn't want to pronounce a German word correctly. You know, for the same reasons the Royal family changed their name from Saxe-Coburg-Gothe to Windsor during WWI.
shareWho cares we know what they meant.
shareOh my; are you all not being just a little too precious.
Porsche is a persons surname and it would be nice if it was pronounced correctly, but many things from other languages are not pronounced correctly in all forms of English.
One can point to caf instead of cafe, but a caf is really different to a cafe. For a start it usually serves instant coffee for the few who didn't order tea. In the instant you might have Nestles Milk (from the 10cc I'm Not In Love pronunciation not the Swiss-French that is Neslay)
How about place names Florence in English, Floronce (phonetic spelling) in French, but the city is Ferenze. _Naples/Napoli, Rome/Roma, Milan/Milano etc) If you pronounce Paris correctly in English you are seen as a twat, as you would have been ten years ago if you pronounced Porche correctly.
As to Jaguar, as it is a cat originally from Latin America (It was in Mexico (BTW. That's Mehhekoh), Central and South America. Wikipedia says "The word 'jaguar' comes to English from one of the Tupi–Guarani languages, presumably the Amazonian trade language Tupinambá, via Portuguese jaguar." So good luck with getting it right. In Portuguese in would be jahgwahr in a very sexy way.
I bet you pronounce many works incorrectly as I probably do. Language is fluid, especially English. Get over yourselves.
Even so Season 23 is *beep*