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I realize that. But it just doesn't make any sense.It was a joke.
Said softly enough the "k" is correct, at least in my homeland.
I realize that. But it just doesn't make any sense.It was a joke.
Elbowing your way into the camera shot, but okay, maybe it just wasn't funny.
The only thing I'd add is that you let the soft k linger a little, like a fade at the end of a song.
I heard him pronounce it on FSSW , I think the same place Travis did...and he said it very slowly to make sure it was understood how to say it...I went back and listened to it several more times...
Travis nailed it in the first post...at least for me.
It doesn't mater.... just call him Beno and it'll be ok!But the way he is playing... let's call him Mozart!
Yeah I realize that -- I was standing right there. What I am saying is that we were talking about it afterwards and saying that even Beno pronounces it differently all the time. He clearly told the Spurs announcers that it's OOO-DRAAH. He clearly told me that it's OOO-DREEH (with a very very slight h sound but no k sound at all). All of these are on tape. So everyone was laughing saying just forget it and call him BAY-NO.
With the -ch there is going to be a k sound, however slight.
Maybe it varies, based on saliva levels.
Ok, so I watch too much TV, but as soon as I read this, I pictured David Spade saying "What's in your wallet?"
There is no k sound in Udrih and that is 100%. Bay-no is probably the best pronanciation, but the last name is really tough to explain. I think someone explained it quite nice in previous thread about his last name, but i'm to lazy to scroll back
PS: just remembered, in spurs-utah game commentators pronounced it almost perfect so there you go
In Ptuj it is certainly pronounced with an ever so slight k. For American speakers one must explain it this way or else they would ignore the -h totally and would pronounce it as Ooh-dree.
MB actually gets it ^^^^
The phonetic mental image of how to say the word is different for Slovenians than it is for Americans. Your language and it sounds are different than ours.
You guys are some serious hard K and H users over there in that part of the world...we aren't over here...that's why we picture saying the word differently and have to be guided in how to get the sound. The image may even be different for some Americans because it is an unusal sound...
But I think to most Americans...if you say the word the way Travis spelled it out...you will get the sound out of the H that the Slovenians expecting to hear.
It's just like when I studied French and the teacher was trying to teach us how to say the huhuhuah sound...she kept trying to spell it out for us and finally she said just collect a bunch of spit in the back of your throat and blow air through it...we got it.
Marcus goyourself!
"ooh-dree"
I would approximate as "ew - dree', but the "dree" is not drawn out, almost elided.
Sadly some of my fellow Slovenes also can't take any jokes whatsoever.
I just call him Beno.
Anybody else thinks that Beno looks like Barry?
There's a thread on this subject already!
And here is how Beno himself says it: Link to video.
There is no need for the k subs ution at the end if you can say " o" you can say Udrih (try saying oodree- o and just leave the "ello" part out).
I have to look at the jersey number many time to tell them apart.
Slomo that link is perfect! Now everybody can learn the right pronunciation!
Americans don't say o like we are hocking up a loogey...
My french hua analogy is a better way of pronouncing it...and saying it the way Travis spelled it out in his initial post will still get the same sound from an American vocal cord.
Why are you lumping the Slovenians together? They seem come in all types of personalities...
You got Slo- He's the feisty one
Slomo - He's the artistic ladies man type
Darius - The friendly one that probably likes to party..a lot
Karl Mundt - The one that would probably disect your brain and sell your organs on the black market if you stayed at his house for the weekend..
Hiphop - The kid
It does not have to be very prominent (like hocking up a loogey - for lack of a better description) just as it is in the word o. Listen to Beno in the video he empahsises it for the reporter and its still quite subtle.
Anyway it's not that important, it's just that it is much easier than you are making it to be (not just you Whottt, but everybody including the media).
Ok maybe Slomo can take a joke.
And what about me? I like jokes too !
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