Stavo dormendo su un bancale di lambro quando il post di Mike Tommasi mi desto'
Have a nice weekend! His bottle of Chaampagnier (Pinot Noir) popped on the last IHV meeting has pleased everyone. BTW, I contacted Arnolfini and he told me he doesn't sell to simple private winelovers as me, and his local agent too, but I will contact the agent anyway. Would you please remember me the name of the Sauternes you said Arnolfini has in stock and which, IIRC, we drunk at Francone's place in Ne'?
Ay caramba! (in the voice of Bart Simpson) You folks in Europe are as confused about proper diction as we in the USA. :^/
I don't feel so bad now about arguing with my grammar school teachers that "rhythm" has _two_ syllables (despite the fact that it contains only one vowel). Can't you _hear_ them?
Sorry this is so OT, but this thread has definitely gone "sideways". ;^D
Tom S
Schaanpagnier (it comes from Schaan)... careful or you'll get him in trouble ;-)
Cru Barrejats
Mike Tommasi, Six Fours, France email link
Stavo dormendo su un bancale di lambro quando il post di Mike Tommasi mi desto'
Oooooooooops! :)
Thanks!
No.
99% due to mispronunciation due to his Swiss/Alemanic German origin. It's well nkown that German speaking Swiss stress (Nearly?) every French word wrongly on the first syllable.M.
I am not convinced there is ONE correct stress. If you are going to stick French words in the middle of a flowing English sentence the stresses and pronunciation is going to be different from the same words in a French sentence.
I'd say that providing you don't pronounce the "t" in "cabernet", and you get the "gn" in "sauvignon" roughly right, noone is going to worry too much.
Which isn't really tough - just think of the n and y in a word like "nyet" (russian for "no").
^^^^^
It's not the first time I see this spelling which irritates me insofar that I always rhyme it with (Bonny) Doon. Is this spelling for "no one" (which I learnt in school) correct?
M.
Or the "gn" in French.
No. But you knew what it meant despite it annoying you. Maybe one day it will be correct. Language is like that :-).
Recursion is everywhere.
M.
And needless repetition
LOL
Mike Tommasi, Six Fours, France email link
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