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Re: How, or how not, to pronounce "Norge" merged threadfest
« Reply #60 on: March 30, 2011, 04:23:23 PM »
Here is a link to see how any word or words you can think of sound in Italian.  It will automatically say Moto Guzzi Norge if you wait for a couple of seconds.  Then you just erase the text and type in your own and hit say it.

http://tts.imtranslator.net/FIra

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Re: How, or how not, to pronounce "Norge" merged threadfest
« Reply #61 on: March 30, 2011, 05:13:11 PM »
Cool...

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Re: How, or how not, to pronounce "Norge" merged threadfest
« Reply #62 on: March 30, 2011, 05:17:26 PM »
Why would I trust them after this?

"It will be ready in a few moment."   ???

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Re: How, or how not, to pronounce "Norge" merged threadfest
« Reply #63 on: March 30, 2011, 06:10:41 PM »
Why would I trust them after this?

"It will be ready in a few moment."   ???

You're not trusting them to speak or write English!

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Re: How, or how not, to pronounce "Norge" merged threadfest
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Re: How, or how not, to pronounce "Norge" merged threadfest
« Reply #64 on: March 30, 2011, 06:45:17 PM »
And these past few years I have been telling everyone that I ride a moto gussy norjuh. Oh well, live and learn! :-[
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Re: How, or how not, to pronounce "Norge" merged threadfest
« Reply #65 on: March 30, 2011, 06:49:57 PM »
I say it like george! now here come the rants!
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Re: How, or how not, to pronounce "Norge" merged threadfest
« Reply #66 on: March 30, 2011, 06:59:42 PM »
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I say it like george!

It's norjuh!! Moto gussy norjuh!!!
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Re: How, or how not, to pronounce "Norge" merged threadfest
« Reply #67 on: March 30, 2011, 07:20:22 PM »
Do you pronounce it as the Italians would or the Norwegians?
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Re: How, or how not, to pronounce "Norge" merged threadfest
« Reply #68 on: March 30, 2011, 08:15:26 PM »
I bet youse guys call a Porsha a porch!! ;D ;D ;D
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Re: How, or how not, to pronounce "Norge" merged threadfest
« Reply #69 on: March 30, 2011, 08:18:19 PM »
Do you pronounce it as the Italians would or the Norwegians?

Norwegians, Ralph is correct.. Nor-Yuh....
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Re: How, or how not, to pronounce "Norge" merged threadfest
« Reply #70 on: March 30, 2011, 08:37:54 PM »
Yuck in my stage of Guzzi life right now.  I'm back in love with my Cali's.  Another model has been catching my eye, though.

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Re: How, or how not, to pronounce "Norge" merged threadfest
« Reply #71 on: March 30, 2011, 08:58:11 PM »
I say Norju ..  I am American..  I don't call it a motocicletta either..

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Re: How, or how not, to pronounce "Norge" merged threadfest
« Reply #72 on: March 30, 2011, 09:04:26 PM »
it rhymes with orange.
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Re: How, or how not, to pronounce "Norge" merged threadfest
« Reply #73 on: March 30, 2011, 09:16:45 PM »
Google translate Try it! No crazy ads either.
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Re: How, or how not, to pronounce "Norge" merged threadfest
« Reply #74 on: March 30, 2011, 09:59:42 PM »
it rhymes with orange.

I don't think anything rhymes with "orange", or is that "purple"? Except for maple syrple.

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Re: How, or how not, to pronounce "Norge" merged threadfest
« Reply #75 on: March 31, 2011, 11:01:26 AM »
I only say it that way cause of norge envey!
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Re: How, or how not, to pronounce "Norge" merged threadfest
« Reply #76 on: March 31, 2011, 12:01:48 PM »
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Re: How, or how not, to pronounce "Norge" merged threadfest
« Reply #77 on: March 31, 2011, 12:05:18 PM »

These threads always puzzle me.

I have as many -- OK, probably more  ;) -- affectations as anyone here, but why would we not apply English language pronunciation rules to this?

Friends who come back from Italy and make others suffer through how they "simply loved Milano, Firenze, and Venezia," eventually get over it, but this Norge [as in "NORJ," IMO] discussion is seemingly endless.

Wonder if appliance groupies debated how to pronounce that old brand, Norge?  :D

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Re: How, or how not, to pronounce "Norge" merged threadfest
« Reply #78 on: March 31, 2011, 12:09:58 PM »
I've always called it like the fridge.. I wonder how you say Stone in Italian?  :BEER:
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Re: How, or how not, to pronounce "Norge" merged threadfest
« Reply #79 on: March 31, 2011, 03:47:36 PM »
Google translate Try it! No crazy ads either.

Yes but that is a translation and I just wanted to know how it was said in Italian.  Who wants to ride a fridge?
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Re: How, or how not, to pronounce "Norge" merged threadfest
« Reply #80 on: March 31, 2011, 03:52:11 PM »
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Re: How, or how not, to pronounce "Norge" merged threadfest
« Reply #81 on: March 31, 2011, 04:07:42 PM »
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Wonder if appliance groupies debated how to pronounce that old brand, Norge?

They did - and finally came up with "fridgie". ???
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« Reply #82 on: March 31, 2011, 04:50:12 PM »
I decided years ago to pronounce all Italian city names the way the natives pronounce them. Why it was necessary to create new English names for Italian cities I have no idea, just as I have no idea why the Italians call the large city in Bayern "Monaco", when they know that's a place in France!

I think Byron or some English poet screwed up our versions of Italian city names, which (if true) isn't so surprising when you consider Byron wasn't his real name either!  ;D One place, one name is a lot easier.
 
I'd pronounce Norge any old way because faking an Italian accent when saying a Nowegian word seems nutty to me!
 

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Re: How, or how not, to pronounce "Norge" merged threadfest
« Reply #83 on: March 31, 2011, 04:58:48 PM »
I wonder how you say Stone in Italian?  :BEER:

di pietra  (dee-pee-a-tra)

I'll stick with "stone"

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Re: How, or how not, to pronounce "Norge" merged threadfest
« Reply #84 on: March 31, 2011, 05:01:44 PM »
at the dealer meeting intro of the bike in 2007  in San Antonio one of the PGA scooterheads was not pleased that I called it the Norhay.
 I explained to him, in Texas thats the way it was pronounced.  To prove my point I asked one of the hotel staff passing by, in my own broken  Spanish ,the name of that bike.  His reply, one word.... Norhay.
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Re: How, or how not, to pronounce "Norge" merged threadfest
« Reply #85 on: March 31, 2011, 05:28:04 PM »
at the dealer meeting intro of the bike in 2007  in San Antonio one of the PGA scooterheads was not pleased that I called it the Norhay.
 I explained to him, in Texas thats the way it was pronounced.  To prove my point I asked one of the hotel staff passing by, in my own broken  Spanish ,the name of that bike.  His reply, one word.... Norhay.

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Re: How, or how not, to pronounce "Norge" merged threadfest
« Reply #86 on: March 31, 2011, 05:34:11 PM »
Where is Nick when we need him? ;D Nick, who himself if from our beloved Italy, told me Nor-jah. Think of Steely Dan's album Aja. Norja.

Dat is what he said.

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Re: How, or how not, to pronounce "Norge" merged threadfest
« Reply #87 on: April 01, 2011, 06:54:00 AM »
any way you want too..if you get any crap just pop em a nice wheelie and drive away




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Re: How, or how not, to pronounce "Norge" merged threadfest
« Reply #88 on: April 01, 2011, 08:38:54 AM »
I wonder how you say Stone in Italian?  :BEER:

di pietra  (dee-pee-a-tra)

I'll stick with "stone"

Fortunately for me, my California is spelled California and pronounced cal-ee-for-nya, almost the same

La California (a town in Tuscany) is pronounced almost exactly the same in Italian:



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Re: How, or how not, to pronounce "Norge" merged threadfest
« Reply #89 on: April 04, 2011, 09:58:17 AM »
Well then if we don't pronounce Norge as Norjeh.  Then why pronounce Moto Guzzi as Moto Gootsie.  We may as well just say moto gussie.  Half of the pronunciation just doesn't seem right if you know what I mean Vern..
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