Annoying commentary
- Thread starter Beamrider
- Start date
- Latest activity Latest activity:
- Status
Ray Houghton says things like "a foot to the left, and that's a goal". Well, fucking, duh.
Well, Kante's a French speaker and "Conte" is how the name would be pronounced in French. I agree though - when you're speaking English, keep to English pronunciation. It was especially irritating when Antonio Conte was actually their manager.
It used to annoy me when motson would say 'he's put a bit too much purchase on it' when he meant he's hit it too hard, but not nearly as much as when Clive Tyldesley turned up and stole Motson's entire repertoire, even his accent. And no-one ever spoke about how weird that was.
Not commentary so much, but the guy on the echo LFC podcast who ends every other sentence with "... and that sort of thing."
He also seems to have a philosophy of why use 2-3 sentences when he can get 35 in saying the same thing over & again ... and that sort of thing.
He also seems to have a philosophy of why use 2-3 sentences when he can get 35 in saying the same thing over & again ... and that sort of thing.
One of England’s greatest ever strikers books thought people to aim at the keeper from 20 yards out or further. Not that this even relevant as loads of goals are scored without aiming for the corner.
So don’t pronounce someone’s name the way they pronounce it. Fuck me.
What? Since when was it removed from the dictionary? You’ll have to point it out, I’m too lackadaisical to look it up.
I think you picked up on my point - there's no "S" after "lack". Pisses me off more than it should.
No thanks.
In any case it's nothing like as simple as that. I'm a languages graduate and I can tell you two things about this: (a) doing what you say is far harder than you seem to think, and (b) many foreign folk actually prefer people not to pretend they know when they clearly don't. Most football pundits especially have precisely bugger all idea of the correct pronunciation of foreign names - they have enough trouble with some British ones FFS - and their mangled guesses (a) are usually wrong and (b) sound incredibly pretentious dropped into the middle of spoken English anyway.
David Ginola was called David Jin-oh-ler by all commentators when he was at Newcastle, as soon as he moved to "sophisticated" Spurs they automatically changed the pronunciation to Daveed Jeenola.
When he went to Vila, they couldn't make up their minds so just called him fatty
When he went to Vila, they couldn't make up their minds so just called him fatty
I realize listening to English commentary for maybe the second time this season that the thing I hate most is a terrible pronunciation of names all round. It's literally the job of a commentator to say players names, they should get it right
I was watching Copa Libertdores the other day involving Atletico Mineiro - who Hulk now plays for.
The English commentary on that broadcast gets all the names spot on.
I had no idea Hulk is actually pronounced Who-key.
"the Salahs, the manes, and the Firminos of this world..."
How many of them are there?
How many of them are there?
Not annoyed by that at all.
Ah yes …it’s defo more funny than annoying ..lost the plot today …it’s meant to be annoying commentary isn’t it…thanks for pointing it out ..oh well in all the annoyance maybe it will raise a smile 🙂
- Status
Similar threads
