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Post subject: How do you say Tignes
 Posted: Sep 02, 2011 - 12:35 AM
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Sorry to ask this question but could someone please tell me how to say this without sounding like a spanner
Please also remember I am from Newcastle so I may have trouble if you have to move your tongue and lips at the same time ! |
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Post subject: RE: How do you say Tignes
Posted: Sep 02, 2011 - 01:24 AM
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| Rhymes with keen but sounds mega French at the end. |
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Posted: Sep 02, 2011 - 09:32 AM
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arby
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Posted: Sep 02, 2011 - 09:33 AM
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| pretty sure its "tig ness" |
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Posted: Sep 02, 2011 - 09:39 AM
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| It's Tee-nya. But it can be pronounced differently depending where in France you're from. |
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Posted: Sep 02, 2011 - 10:18 AM
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| Watch x games Europe videos on YouTube. They pronounce it brilliant. Most lazy Brits will say teens |
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Tiberius
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Posted: Sep 02, 2011 - 10:40 AM
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You're English, say it proudly how you want to say it. How do you say Paris? Are you a man or do you go pareeeee?
Come to think of it, how do you pronounce Munich? Almost certainly nothing like the people who live there do, same with a thousand other places around the world, jeez there are half the countries of the world that we give totally different names to. Man up. |
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Posted: Sep 02, 2011 - 10:47 AM
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Yeah its actually officialy pronounced as Curtis says, Tee-nya. English speakers have always called it Teen though.
However even the French have started to use the Anglosised version and started pronouncing it Teen.
If you say Teen to a french person in the area they know what youre talking about but i said Teen to someone in Paris and they didnt have a clue what i was talking about untill i said Tee-nya |
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Posted: Sep 02, 2011 - 10:47 AM
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Posted: Sep 02, 2011 - 10:50 AM
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Tiberius
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Posted: Sep 02, 2011 - 11:01 AM
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| Half the English people I meet don't even know how to pronounce where I'm from (Smethwich), so how the hell can we expect them to pronounce foreign towns the same way locals do? |
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Posted: Sep 02, 2011 - 11:02 AM
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| Same as being an Englishman living in Scotland. I regularly butcher Scottish place names. |
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Tiberius
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Posted: Sep 02, 2011 - 11:10 AM
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In Wales, I once spent a couple of hours trying to pronounce Pwllheli, after gobbing on everyone in the shop I think I finally got fairly close.
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I thought I got close....the Welshish people in the shop still were not convinced |
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Posted: Sep 02, 2011 - 11:20 AM
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AdamA9 wrote:
Isn't is Muuunchen? With a kind of phlegm in the ch?
Well technically it's München  but yeh German is all about the phlegm-y throat sounds! Love it! |
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Posted: Sep 02, 2011 - 11:43 AM
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| Yeah, I know a German girl who makes phlegmy throat sounds. |
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