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Post by ppl591 on Aug 26, 2021 21:59:46 GMT -5
Bret "the Hitman" Clarke Oh, and my pet peeve - Brett Hart. I'm guilty of this as well - Roddy Roddy Piper I'm glad I'm not the only one that always called him Roddy Roddy piper I did until her got to wcw in 96
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Aug 27, 2021 0:03:02 GMT -5
I could have sworn one of the NJPW on AXS broadcasts I heard JR pronounce Tomohiro Ishii has "Tomohiro Ishi-E" I no shit thought that was the way to pronounce it. Wow. that is how the name Ishii is usually pronounced.
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Post by 67 more on Aug 27, 2021 2:25:57 GMT -5
I no shit thought that was the way to pronounce it. Wow. that is how the name Ishii is usually pronounced. Can be pronounced both ways. I-shi-i is done more for style with chants and ring announcements (same how Justin Roberts wouldn't pronounce John JEEEEAAAAWWWWWWWN normally), but in normal conversation i-shii would be more common. Double vowels typically just extend the syllable, rather than add a new one, especially when the last vowel is being tacked on to the end of a similar syllable. If I say isogashii or muzukashii, I wouldn't say i-so-ga-shi-i or mu-zu-ka-shi-i, I would just make the end of the shi a little bit longer. Words like kawaii is different because of the syllable wai in there, meaning that the last i can't be tacked on to extend the noise, so has to be its own syllable. Of course this can all change with regional dialects and accents, anyway. I can't understand a word Tenzan says with his Kansai accent and the way he talks like someone who has no teeth. Naito promos I can follow along pretty well because he's from Tokyo and has very clear diction.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Aug 27, 2021 2:29:11 GMT -5
that is how the name Ishii is usually pronounced. Can be pronounced both ways. I-shi-i is done more for style with chants and ring announcements (same how Justin Roberts wouldn't pronounce John JEEEEAAAAWWWWWWWN normally), but in normal conversation i-shii would be more common. Double vowels typically just extend the syllable, rather than add a new one, especially when the last vowel is being tacked on to the end of a similar syllable. If I say isogashii or muzukashii, I wouldn't say i-so-ga-shi-i or mu-zu-ka-shi-i, I would just make the end of the shi a little bit longer. Words like kawaii is different because of the syllable wai in there, meaning that the last i can't be tacked on to extend the noise, so has to be its own syllable. Of course this can all change with regional dialects and accents, anyway. I can't understand a word Tenzan says with his Kansai accent and the way he talks like someone who has no teeth. Naito promos I can follow along pretty well because he's from Tokyo and has very clear diction. I'm just going off my day to day ... I know a few people with the last name Ishii and they pronounce it Ishi-i *shrug*
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Post by ianriccaboni on Aug 27, 2021 6:30:29 GMT -5
Can be pronounced both ways. I-shi-i is done more for style with chants and ring announcements (same how Justin Roberts wouldn't pronounce John JEEEEAAAAWWWWWWWN normally), but in normal conversation i-shii would be more common. Double vowels typically just extend the syllable, rather than add a new one, especially when the last vowel is being tacked on to the end of a similar syllable. If I say isogashii or muzukashii, I wouldn't say i-so-ga-shi-i or mu-zu-ka-shi-i, I would just make the end of the shi a little bit longer. Words like kawaii is different because of the syllable wai in there, meaning that the last i can't be tacked on to extend the noise, so has to be its own syllable. Of course this can all change with regional dialects and accents, anyway. I can't understand a word Tenzan says with his Kansai accent and the way he talks like someone who has no teeth. Naito promos I can follow along pretty well because he's from Tokyo and has very clear diction. I'm just going off my day to day ... I know a few people with the last name Ishii and they pronounce it Ishi-i *shrug* I was encouraged to do it "Ishi-i" by someone who would know. Same with Kagetsu being pronounced more like Kagets-(trail the U off relatively silently). 🤷♂️
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Post by jason1980s on Aug 27, 2021 11:30:46 GMT -5
I believe Levesque is "Le-veck" with the intonation like "respect". I thought it was "Levesk" my whole life after only reading it as a kid and never hearing it until a couple of years ago once he went more corporate and the media stopped calling him Triple H and I heard it said out loud haha. Just call him Paul. People call him "Paul" and people call Rock "Dwayne" since their entire lives and careers are so similar and it's pretty hard to distinguish one from the other. I do find it funny though people now don't know how to say Paul's last name and people in the past couldn't say Rock's family name. Jim Ross always said "Rocky My-A-Via" and Billy Graham in his WWE DVD said "Peter My-E-Va." Even as a kid once I heard it I never had a problem saying it. I never Dutch Mantel's name was pronounced "Man-Telle" I guess it makes sense now but his territory and WCW runs were before my time and I never saw any videos of him. He was Uncle Zeb twice in WWF when I knew him though I did know his last name but didn't know the pronunciation.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Aug 28, 2021 23:05:31 GMT -5
His name is simply "abusive groomer piece of shit now," but GCW had problems getting Nolan Edward's name right during his short tenure with the company, continually billing him as "Nolan Edwards."
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Post by Big BosskMan on Aug 29, 2021 18:29:44 GMT -5
Not so much me, but a neighbor's used to pronounce The Living Legend as...
Larry Nabisco.
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Post by Squirrel Master on Aug 29, 2021 18:45:38 GMT -5
Before he got to WWE and getting his name changed to Cesaro, I remember people being very inconsistent in how they pronounced Claudio Castagnoli's name. came here to mention Castagnoli. The GN sound really throws people off cause it's not really something that happens in English. I live it because my last name is akin to Gargano meets Castagnoli
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Aug 29, 2021 19:02:01 GMT -5
"Ted DiBiase" was not an easy one at first for a WWF kid in 1987 who hadn't heard it before. "Jacqueline" sometimes was pronounced with the Q, sometimes with a CK. I still don't know for sure how to pronounce "Levesque." But the grand champion for me here is "Toma/Tamma/Tahma" from the Islanders. It Luh-Veck
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Post by Triangle Lancer on Aug 30, 2021 7:46:34 GMT -5
Not so much me, but a neighbor's used to pronounce The Living Legend as... Larry Nabisco. Nice! Zbyszko's name was usually pronounced correctly; nobody seemed to be able to SPELL the damn thing. Much like "Krusher/Khrusher Khruschev/Krushev".
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Post by ARI WOW WOW on Aug 30, 2021 8:14:47 GMT -5
Renee Paquette
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Post by Hypnosis on Aug 30, 2021 10:46:32 GMT -5
Renee Moxley.
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Post by Heeltown, USA on Aug 31, 2021 11:43:57 GMT -5
"Ted DiBiase" was not an easy one at first for a WWF kid in 1987 who hadn't heard it before. "Jacqueline" sometimes was pronounced with the Q, sometimes with a CK. I still don't know for sure how to pronounce "Levesque." But the grand champion for me here is "Toma/Tamma/Tahma" from the Islanders. I believe Levesque is "Le-veck" with the intonation like "respect". I thought it was "Levesk" my whole life after only reading it as a kid and never hearing it until a couple of years ago once he went more corporate and the media stopped calling him Triple H and I heard it said out loud haha. When he was in WCW as Jean Paul Levesque it was prounounced “Luh-veck” but his real life pronunciation is Lev-uh-skew
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Post by jason1980s on Aug 31, 2021 11:46:56 GMT -5
The Brett typing is very irritating. Even before Bret became a huge star (mid 1987-1990) it was never written as "Brett" I know the LJN card said "Brett" and amazingly even the Vince McMahon card said "McMann" on the sticker. That must have been some sort of inside joke.
I know Bret was billed both ways early on in his WWF time but once the Hart Foundation gained popularity no one should be typing his name wrong. Yet people still do on the internet. I would think even casual fans would know the correct spelling.
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Post by smokinvokoun86 on Aug 31, 2021 11:49:43 GMT -5
I’m pretty sure if you were a wrestling fan in the 80s living in the mid south area, you are pretty much always gonna call “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan, as Jim Doogan. Like he was one of the biggest stars ever in that territory and Bill Watts and other commentators kept calling him “Doogan”.
Hell, even one time when Duggan was on the Brother Love Show, Brother Love kept calling him “Doogan”. Probably because Bruce came from that area and worked there.
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Post by James Fabiano on Aug 31, 2021 11:56:04 GMT -5
I am trying to remember what WWE person on a Benoit DVD or whatever kept referring to Liger as Justin Thunder Liger and kept getting corrected. Todd Grisham. (And someone at the Kayfabe Memories page used a soundalike name for Todd to mock him, one that doesn't age well now. Same guy who had the Lex Luger's tights theory, so take his judgments with a grain of salt of course) It does remind me...not knowing how to say "Benoit" before he debuted in WCW. Me and my friend used to pronounce it "Bennett" basically. (Now we all pronounce it..."Richards" ;-)) Ditto on the Roddy Roddy, or Rowdy Rowdy slipup.
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Post by James Fabiano on Aug 31, 2021 11:56:56 GMT -5
I always called Wendi Ricter as Wendy Richard until I knew better and I'm another who said Henning instead of Hennig. Now I crave a British woman wrestler with a Shirley Brahms gimmick.
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Post by Triangle Lancer on Aug 31, 2021 12:19:06 GMT -5
The Brett typing is very irritating. Even before Bret became a huge star (mid 1987-1990) it was never written as "Brett" I know the LJN card said "Brett" and amazingly even the Vince McMahon card said "McMann" on the sticker. That must have been some sort of inside joke. I know Bret was billed both ways early on in his WWF time but once the Hart Foundation gained popularity no one should be typing his name wrong. Yet people still do on the internet. I would think even casual fans would know the correct spelling. Don't get them started on "Rick" Flair or Rick "Martell".
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Post by jason1980s on Aug 31, 2021 12:24:34 GMT -5
Don't get them started on "Rick" Flair or Rick "Martell". I forgot Rick Flair. I know people to this day still write his name as that. I don't see it near as much as "Brett" but it does happen.
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