Commie Pinko Dirtbag
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Tue Mar-30-10 12:37 PM
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In Portuguese, the letter X doesn't have the sound "s". It's "sh" instead. |
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Therefore, whenever I read the name "xultar", it sounds in my head as "shultar", not "sultar".
I felt I had a duty to clarify that. :hi:
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Tue Mar-30-10 12:41 PM
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag
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Tue Mar-30-10 12:47 PM
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Tue Mar-30-10 02:04 PM
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10. Don't you mean "Aw, XTFU"? nt |
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Tue Mar-30-10 12:43 PM
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Is that name supposed to start with an h sound? Or sh? Or x?
I always want to say it like Javier.
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Tue Mar-30-10 12:46 PM
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Tue Mar-30-10 12:54 PM
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6. So like Javier but with a sh sound. |
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Cool.
The X-Men movies messed me up on that name. I don't think I'd ever heard that pronunciation before.
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Tue Mar-30-10 12:56 PM
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7. Many Brazilians say "Shees-Men". -nt |
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Tue Mar-30-10 03:40 PM
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15. Actually, we have a lot of "she-men" in Houston, too. |
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The ones I've met seem pretty nice.
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Tue Mar-30-10 12:51 PM
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Tue Mar-30-10 12:57 PM
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8. In English, it can sound like either "ks" or "z". |
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So in my head, it's more like "zultar."
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Tue Mar-30-10 01:59 PM
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9. I have a Brazilian Portugese question. |
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My Brazilian friends always had trouble with my name (which starts with an R) but then inserted an R sound at the beginning of words stating with H (hrusband, hrospital, Hre-Man). Any idea of why that might be?
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Tue Mar-30-10 02:57 PM
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11. The soft H sound is alien to Brazilians. |
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The closest thing is the French-style R sound.
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Tue Mar-30-10 03:15 PM
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I've always wondered about that.
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Tue Mar-30-10 03:20 PM
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Edited on Tue Mar-30-10 03:32 PM by Commie Pinko Dirtbag
:hi:
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Tue Mar-30-10 03:46 PM
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Actually, Rachel has always sounded more like Leecha than anything else to my New England ears.
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Tue Mar-30-10 03:25 PM
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14. By the way, ask your Brazilians friends to say... |
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"The three thinkers thought this through thoroughly."
Then sit back and enjoy.
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Tue Mar-30-10 03:47 PM
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17. Until I met a guy named Joao, I never knew how to pronounce it |
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It's kinda like "Zhwaw(n)" with a silent N like the French use in Jean
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