La-POO-ah or La-Pwaa

[Jgunner]

Maybe you should just stick to shit that your offended intellect can deal with pronouncing, rather than having to learn the smallest thing that ain't sufficiently 'Merican enough for you.

I don’t roll my rrrrrr’s when ordering a burrito, so i think butchering other country's words Is pretty merican.

 

[Midwestside]

 

[Veer_G]

I'll see you and raise you.

 

[Milf Dots]

Geissele = GUYS-Lee

Gisele = Tom Brady's supermodel wife

 

[TheGerman]

 

[Alphatreedog]

Lapwaah , Lapooaaa , alapooha ha ha . FUCKIN PEW PEW !

 

[Alphatreedog]

Le poop hole .

 

[MtnCreek]

Geissele = GUYS-Lee

Gisele = Tom Brady's supermodel wife

Geissele. Sure, it's worth 200 bucks, but damn it sucks spending that.
Gisele. Sign me up!

 

[LeftyJason]

Larue

I thought that was pronounced scheisse?

 

[EddieNFL]

I stop wearing jeans because of the controversy surrounding the proper pronunciation of Jordache.

 

[105gr]

Lapewa

 

[Nik H]

I actually asked a guy I know who's originally from Sweden. He said the correct Finnish pronunciation is Lah-Puah.

English is one of the very few languages with long and short vowels and it makes English speakers sound pretty stupid when they try to pronounce stuff in almost any other language.

I LOL when I hear most people try to pronounce Spanish words.

Pirate...asking a Swede to pronounce a Finnish word is like asking a Greek to pronounce a Turkish word...LMAO

 

[Midwestside]

I stop wearing jeans because of the controversy surrounding the proper pronunciation of Jordache.

Donald ducking it should have no controversy over the pronunciations. Well done.

 

[308pirate]

Pirate...asking a Swede to pronounce a Finnish word is like asking a Greek to pronounce a Turkish word...LMAO

They're neighbors, aren't they?

 

[Nik H]

They're neighbors, aren't they?

Hate each other...can't blame the Finns. I hated Sweden...been there many times....loved Finland

 

[ChadL]

Is this seriously what we’re talking about on the hide? It’s not la poo uh or lapwuh......it’s pronounced cha ching.

 

[perttime]

I actually asked a guy I know who's originally from Sweden. He said the correct Finnish pronunciation is Lah-Puah.

English is one of the very few languages with long and short vowels and it makes English speakers sound pretty stupid when they try to pronounce stuff in almost any other language.

Lah-poo-ah would actually be pretty close. Just keep all the vowels short.

If a Finnish word has a long vowel, you spell it with a double vowel ( u vs. uu). You really want to hear the difference between phrases like "ollaan kusessa" vs. "ollaan kuusessa"....

Now do Tikka and Sako...

Tick-kah, Sah-koh, perhaps. (and keep the vowels short)

 

[LeftyJason]

Lah-poo-ah would actually be pretty close. Just keep all the vowels short.

If a Finnish word has a long vowel, you spell it with a double vowel ( u vs. uu). You really want to hear the difference between phrases like "ollaan kusessa" vs. "ollaan kuusessa"....


Tick-kah, Sah-koh, perhaps. (and keep the vowels short)

Translating those is funny.

 

[perttime]

Translating those is funny.

Google translate doesn't always do well with Finnish. "Ollaan" means "We are". Kusessa" means literally " in the piss". "Kuusessa" means "in a spruce tree" or "up a spruce tree".

 

[perttime]

Google Translate gives a fair approximation, of how Lapua is pronounced. Just click the sound icon under the Finnish version: https://translate.google.com/?hl=fi#view=home&op=translate&sl=fi&tl=en&text=Lapua

 

[lash]

Google Translate gives a fair approximation, of how Lapua is pronounced. Just click the sound icon under the Finnish version: https://translate.google.com/?hl=fi#view=home&op=translate&sl=fi&tl=en&text=Lapua

Thanks for your input. Based upon that, I would almost write an English translation as, Lupwa, at least to my ear.

 

[perttime]

Thanks for your input. Based upon that, I would almost write an English translation as, Lupwa, at least to my ear.

the "wa" might let you round it out too much. You need a sharp shift from pure vowel "u" to "a", not a soft blend of the sounds.

 

[Veer_G]

the "wa" might let you round it out too much. You need a sharp shift from pure vowel "u" to "a", not a soft blend of the sounds.

English tends to smooth out contiguous vowels with dipthong glides, but hypercorrect in cases like Lapua and throw in presumed tonic stresses because we figure that they're probably there, like is the case of esdrújula and sobreesdrújula in Spanish.

 

[remmynikon.308]

Lap-mag

 

[SonicBurlap]

Le poop hole .

Pepe Le Pew?

 

[theLBC]

dairy queen

/too obscure?