Why are the media and its representatives so bad at the names of foreign football teams?
If a team's name is Bayern Munchen why not call it Bayern Munchen? Or if you're going to translate it, why not call it Bavaria Munich rather than stop in the middle?
And why is Milano MEElan? If you left it Italian it would have a much shorter initial i. Why not pronounce it like Milan in English, whith the stress on the second syllable?
And why the pronunciation GalatAsaray? The Turkish place and team is stressed on the second syllable, and the a's are more like u in cup. The sharp a - a as in apple - doesn't exist in Turkish.
Answers:
I suspect you are complaining about the British press.relax - they also balls up on some of the English teams (the ones that usually turn up once every season the first round of the FA cup) - and commentators trying to pronounce foreign players who now ply their trade in England - very sad indeed.
They presume everyone else will understand them.but some of the time even English listeners can't!
Cause it takes practice to do something well or they didn't bother to find out the proper pronunciation.
Because they are sports commentators are getting the gist of the story, pronum=nication is not high on their list of priorities.
because they don't know much about football than they think they claim
other countries do exactly the same
In my humble opinion it is because they are lazy,parochial and know the audience they are playing to. I find it particularly annoying when the refuse to learn the proper pronunciation of players' names, it is after all what they are getting paid for.
They're English and therefore expect the rest of the world to adapt to their inane drivel. and they seem to get overexcited thinking about their fat salaries.
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And why is Milano MEElan? If you left it Italian it would have a much shorter initial i. Why not pronounce it like Milan in English, whith the stress on the second syllable?
And why the pronunciation GalatAsaray? The Turkish place and team is stressed on the second syllable, and the a's are more like u in cup. The sharp a - a as in apple - doesn't exist in Turkish.
Answers:
I suspect you are complaining about the British press.relax - they also balls up on some of the English teams (the ones that usually turn up once every season the first round of the FA cup) - and commentators trying to pronounce foreign players who now ply their trade in England - very sad indeed.
They presume everyone else will understand them.but some of the time even English listeners can't!
Cause it takes practice to do something well or they didn't bother to find out the proper pronunciation.
Because they are sports commentators are getting the gist of the story, pronum=nication is not high on their list of priorities.
because they don't know much about football than they think they claim
other countries do exactly the same
In my humble opinion it is because they are lazy,parochial and know the audience they are playing to. I find it particularly annoying when the refuse to learn the proper pronunciation of players' names, it is after all what they are getting paid for.
They're English and therefore expect the rest of the world to adapt to their inane drivel. and they seem to get overexcited thinking about their fat salaries.
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