Mare - Ee - Oh? Mah - Ree -Oh!

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Mare - Ee - Oh? Mah - Ree -Oh!

Postby Corax » 26 Apr 2007, 15:46

why do you guys say Mare e oh, is it a canadian thing? its always been Mah rio for me and my friends
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Postby Misty » 26 Apr 2007, 15:51

It's like tom-aye-toe and tom-ah-toe. They're saying the same stuff, just accents are different.
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Postby AmazingPjotrMan » 26 Apr 2007, 15:52

What the hell are you going on about?
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Postby Misty » 26 Apr 2007, 15:58

Pronunciations of "Mario", apparently.
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Postby Master Gunner » 26 Apr 2007, 16:00

It's an accent thing that we go with in conversation, if we were to imitate Mario's accent, then it would come out Ma-rio, but in normal speech it just comes out Mar-io. If you go someplace else, they'll probably pronounce it differently than either of us. That's just the way it goes.
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Postby Alja-Markir » 26 Apr 2007, 16:01

In Italian, and almost all other Romance languages, and countless other languages (even Japanese and other Asian languages) normal vowels sounds go "Ah" "Eh" "Ee" "Oh" "Oo" for a, e, i, o, u. So katana is "kah-tah-nah" and meteoric is "meh-teh-oh-ric".

Thus Mario is "Mah-Ree-Oh". It's just phonetics.

However, as has been brought up on these forums before, English is whacked, and English speakers more-so. I tend to go with phonetics when saying anything not English in origin, but it's always a toss-up for English things because those tend to have come from Anglo-Saxon, Gaelic, German, Norwegian, and the other early formative "English" languages.

As they say, "Poh-tah~eh-toh", "Poh-tah-toh".

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Postby Andy » 27 Apr 2007, 11:30

I think it's the vowel after the "R" that can change the "A" sound for an English speaking reader.

Like the diference between "mat" and "mate".
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Postby Alja-Markir » 27 Apr 2007, 12:24

Precisely. English speakers have both long and short vowel sounds, dictated by a couple of rather loose rules regarding letters after the vowel sound.

So while we say "Mah-eh~eet", a phonetic speaker would say "Mah-teh".

Further confusion is derived from combined vowel sounds. The above example of the English pronunciation of mate shows how we literally run vowel sounds together into one sound, without even realizing it. This originates from familiar speakers pronouncing words at great speed, slowly changing the total sound.

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(Try saying the phonetic parts all at one once, very quickly, and it sounds normal.)

Coin: "Koh~een"
Door: "Doh~ohr"
Quick: "Koo~eek"
Fear: "Feh~ahr"
Tree: "Treh~eh"

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Postby Mouse » 27 Apr 2007, 13:30

mistyladybug wrote: tom-aye-toe and tom-ah-toe


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Postby emma » 27 Apr 2007, 16:18

but if we call the whole thing off, then we must part... and that might break my heart.
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Postby DarkMidget » 27 Apr 2007, 16:34

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Postby YamaroV2 » 27 Apr 2007, 17:57

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