Well he laid out a framework for pronouncing tricky food names, which is what the title is referring to, rather than listing specific examples, which is what Adam's opening statement was referring to, so I think they're both right
@@bittersweet8816 Nope, totally being serious. Someone who goes out of their way to correct another person's pronunciation, especially when the pronunciation is acceptable, is obnoxious.
As a French, we don't pronounce McDo as "Mac Doo". The 'o' is pronouced in a similar way as in "let's go". Just wanted to clarify, because the way Adam pronounced it sounded super weird.
I did a french exchange program in highschool and was very confused when the french students suggested "on peut manger a MagDo..." and we ended up in a McDonalds. And that's the story of how I ended up eating american fast-food within my first week of going to one of the culinary centers of the world. Sidenote: Y'all have very clean McDonalds.
@@charleahar I really wonder what people experience when they comment on McDonalds outside of the US. I've been to McD's in multiple countries and they're clean, yeah, just like the ones I've been to in the US.
@@kaldo_kaldo my experience with McDonalds in the US has often been poorly-lit, with booths with their stuffing popping out of cracks in the vinyl. They don’t sweep as often as they should so there are stepped-upon piles of French fry mush under the tables It’s not necessarily “dirty”, but it doesn’t feel inviting, it doesn’t feel comfortable, you kinda just want to get out of there. In France, the buildings were very well lit, well maintained, and they very clearly swept up the spilled French fries, and washed down tables frequently. It wasn’t white tablecloth, but it really wasn’t a bad experience to sit down with your friends for a while, enjoy your royale, and chat and chill out.
@@charleahar Hmm, if I had to guess, those probably don't have involvement from McDonald's corporate. The one in my hometown (which I worked at for a year) was very well lit - the entire lobby was windows, and tons of electric lighting too. There were a few lobby staff who would clean up after customers immediately when they left. The chairs were all in good shape, nothing broken or worn down. But every month, we had someone from the McDonald's corporate office inspecting our store to make sure it met their standards. It's not compulsory for franchise stores to do this, so I imagine that's the main difference.
I just purposefully mispronounce every cooking-related word so that people think it's a joke to hide the fact that I don't know how to pronounce a lot of words.
"If they think you're being an idiot on purpose just for laughs, they'll never think you're an idiot when you don't actually know" - my philsophy. And sometimes it works
idk whenever I'm speaking English I anglicize all non anglo words. and when I'm speaking Spanish I Castilianize them all not Castilian words. but my mom dose that pompous pronouncing everything "correctly" thing and it pretty annoying
@@alexricky87 Guy's been on the map for a year or so. If it was a joke, you don't render your "first draft of manifesto" down to nearly zero with a badly executed joke, but I could be taking this way too seriously as well, so "you do you my friend" :D
"I don't wanna sound pompous" *names a law after himself* EDIT: Holy hell none of you seem to get that this is a joke. I don't actually think he's pompous. Congrats to everyone trying to make me seem dumb, you played yourselves
This is the higher level cultural distinction that I need more of in my life. I feel like you get either side of the scale of your video in most discussions of language and culture. On one end, you get people who say it’s splitting hairs to discuss the differentiations of the pronunciations of Gyro. On the other end, you get people talking to 100-year-old grandmother’s from Greece as an unyielding authority on the singular correct pronunciation of Gyro, as if they’ve tracked down and solved an unanswered mystery. Adam, I appreciate the middle line you found with this content. You are educating viewers on various cultural nuances while refusing to declare any one of these cultures as the supreme owner of any one word. I think that’s a really nuanced and well thought out take, and I feel like I walked away from this video learning a new outlook on food pronunciation and culture. Thank you
I don't follow the RAE, it's too Spain centered. An example: The word "eximirse" is very used in Chile and other south american countries and they took it out of the dictionary because "it's not used any more". When I asked them about it they said: it's still in the "Diccionario the americanismos". Wtf? Why there is a kind of exceptions-dictionary for America when the majority of the world spanish speakers live here?
@@arii414 I get what you mean it is not as inclusive as it could be but its a good base for the formal tounge anyway. It does include a lot of the Argentinan verb differences tho I have been told
@@arii414 Por curiosidad, qué significa "eximirse"? Cuando lo busco en google solo salen los resultados de "eximir", que sí está en la RAE y sí se usa en España.
@@daiinginside9845 yeah dude I'm just trying to order some food and rent a movie. When I'm walking up to the counter at my local Mexican restaurant I'm not thinking about "the linguistic differences between our 2 cultures". I'm actually thinking about "oh shit did I leave my back door open?" I mean yeah I've never said tor-till-a but when I hear someone else say it i don't think of them differently. People have lives! They have jobs and kids to raise! Some Americans see 2 L's in a word and say tor-till-a and that's fine because they have other more important responsibilities to be thinking about then if they pronounced that word right. I'm lucky enough to have known the pronunciation of that word before seeing the spelling but other people aren't.
The "o" sound in French sounds closer to the English "oo" than the English "oh" I think, but I agree it's definitely not the diphthong "ew", at least for the accents of French and English that I'm familiar with (Source: am Canadian)
This cooking channel is slowing becoming a philosophy channel. Eventually we’ll be discussing the existential problems of the universe. Slowly, but surely.
@@poopertin11 I'm fascinated by philosophy myself but as of late have often found it frustrating if you're actually using it to find real truth in the world and/or the best way to live a "good" life. Whatever that means. It seems to be that truth finding especially is perhaps impossible due to the immense complexity of life and the limited senses and brainpower we possess.
@@YeetusTheFetus It's different though; when we say "butter" it just comes out like budder, rhymes with udder and shudder (and "another", if you're Joe Pesci). It's just a D.
@@HoratioAccel You can't tell me what to do! >:( Besides, I say it correctly when I'm ordering at a restaurant or something, I just say it stupid as a joke when I'm around friends or whatever.
That's nothing. Just after I got divorced I had my kids with me for the weekend and we went to a barbeque at a friend's house. Was chatting to this really nice lady I met there, who seemed to be as interested in me as I was in her. Casually, my 3 year old son walked up and started telling her about how I was growing a "yellow penis". 17 years has now passed and I still cringe when I think of that moment XD
To be a little bit more precise, since it's just the shortened version of "McDonald's", we naturally pronounce the "do" as it is pronounced in the complete name, just without the ending.
My way of pronouncing names: If I am in Japan, try my best to pronounce it the way the Japanese do, even if I cannot do it perfectly. At least I tried my best effort.
@@Karma-qt4ji japanese isn't as loose as english, all spellings are phonetic with very little wiggle room so if you don't nail down the accent you'll probably be misunderstood a lot
Okay, can we all agree that this was the smoothest ad transition ever made, by a TH-camr who's already known for them? Jesus Ragusea, that was greased silk.
I was doomed from the start. The first computer "game" I played was a thesaurus that would pronounce words on a click, had occasional pictures like a lion that would roar on click, & had an extensive & descriptive content.
Adam this is easily my favorite video of yours, and I love most of your videos. I'm a massive language nerd and your approach to this is truly excellent. I've never seen someone describe my own opinions to me and put words to my gut feelings so succinctly. Excellent, EXCELLENT work! For reference, I say something like "euro" or "yeero," I say "brushetta," and I say "bolo-nay-zay" or "bolo-naze." Born and raised in southwest Ohio :)
I think it's tough when you are bi-lingual/cultural. It feels weird trying to skirt around "sounding like a tool" when you really just want to say something the way you know it.
My perspective is that if the people you're talking to are aware that you're biliingual or multicultural, they won't (or at least shouldn't) think you're sounding like a tool if you're speaking to be authentic. They'll have the context of knowing that you have more credibility in the matter since you are culturally-related or linguistically learned in that way. I think the pompousness is more for those who have no sort of connection to something yet since they "know" the correct way, they inflate their sense of worth by using the "proper" way to pronounce things, despite falling behind in intelligibility and, ironically, authenticity.
Drachen That's so relatable. People are always being so kind when they do want to communicate, since that's why we sometimes desperately tried to, eh, communicate. So whether we manage to find a workaround in that language, or they being considerate in understanding our smashing into it, which usually they do.
German here, when I talk to my American friends and use German names, I find myself subconsciously using American pronunciations. It's really funny. I don't do it on purpose, but it's part of code-switching I think. When I'm in "English mode", I sometimes even pronounce my own damn name differently from how it's actually pronounced.
@@DrachenYT I totally agree with you but unfortunately some people around me are not kind enough to not think that I am a prick who tries to create an impression of superior intelligency over them when I pronounce things "correctly" in other languages.
Honestly Adam, I am a bit hungover right now, and I decided to watch a few vids before starting on my uni work. I cannot stress how much I value your channel. Videos like this are just great, thank you for teaching me to cook - helping my family and making my friends happy - and thank you for creating just great quality informative videos.
A shift from [g] (the in English ) to [j] (the in English ) is actually not unique to the growth from ancient to modern Greek. It's an instance of "palatalization", which is the tendency to move the place your tongue goes while speaking to more often pass through the center-most region (namely, near the hard palate) because that tends to happen any time you move from a sound at one end off the mouth to a sound at the other end. Many parts of Anglo-Saxon also got palatalized as they grew into Modern English.
@@joachimverheijden8845 I suppose, but to be honest it just sounds ignorant to mispronounce it if he's going to deliberately point how how the French say it
he definitely made this bc of everyone roasting his pronunciation of gyro in that video edit: oop just got to the part of the video where he mentions it lmao
I find Ragusea's law comes quite naturally to me living in Finland. Foreign (mostly english) media, product and company names are everywhere to the point where you develop an innate feel for how they are pronounced "in finnish", just like you do for native words, except with a different ruleset.
There is an approach you have to cooking that's really refreshing to see. There is no way this doesn't translate through your life. A form of jeet-kun-do even. People in general can learn a lot from this channel therefore not exclusive to cooking. Keep it up Adam !
Before I knew what a gyro was back in middle school, I would see the name on the sign of a nearby restaurant and mentally read it as "Jai ro". Then one day I was volunteering as an artist's helper during a city arts festival. Carting around water, watching stands while artists ran to the bathroom or whatever. One guy, when I asked if he needed anything, handed me some cash and asked me to get him a lamb "yee ro" from the food truck. I was like, "yeah, sure!" and confidently ran off to get it. Once out of sight, I panicked because I had no idea what the heck a "yee ro" was but I didn't want to look like an idiot for asking. The guy made the request like it was standard fare after all. So I walked around inspecting every food truck menu for lamb as an ingredient and came across the one selling gyros. I timidly approached the truck with the diminutive confidence of someone who was definitely about to butcher the key word I needed to say to place my order and asked for "one lamb ~ro please" in the hopes that the noise of the truck would drown out the first half of the word I just kind of stumbled over. Maybe it did, maybe it didn't. I'm sure he could have cared less. He got the order and I paid and ran back to the artist's stand. I got to keep the change and a tip on top of that. But yeah, all that to say I use "yee ro" for the pronunciation whenever I order them now.
Can we take a moment to appreciate how comfortable and expressive Adam is on camera? While other TH-camrs are either monotonous or over-expressive, Adam is able to talk about literally anything while keeping our attention through raw writing and speaking skill. Probably comes from his journalism background.
I am reminded of a non-food-related example that my mother came up against with a friend she had for a while. During the 90s (I was a teen then) Mum became friends with a woman who joined our church, maybe a few good years younger, divorced with two pre-teen sons. But she was a Victorian and Victoria has a few dialect differences to other states, including a pronunciation of "castle" as closer to "kessel" than "car-sl" that NSW favours. Why is this significant? We were living in NSW and both she and Mum had plenty to do with our church's single people's club (for widows and divorcees) and one of the bigger branches of it was the Newcastle branch. FYI, Newcastle is a city north of Sydney, one of the bigger NSW cities, used too be a metal refining centre, had an earthquake in... '89? I think? As Mum held, calling Newcastle "New-kessel" to a resident's face would be insulting, because they call it "New-car-sl". So I think that fits into your paradigm of "Do people own it?" because as Mum held, and I agree, residents have first rights on how the name of their town or city is pronounced. I also think the second string is how state news broadcasts call it, in the case of a city like Mackay, which can be called the way it looks, but I most often hear it called in rhyme with "eye" on the second syllable, on QLD evening TV news.
McDo(ugh) makes way more sense than the Australian version of McDonald's which is "Macca's" 😂. McDo just sounds like you're shortening it, which I think is common in a lot of languages. Even American English.
Mcdonalds Abbreviatons in various cultures are fascinating, Yo have McDo in France, Maccas in Australia, Maccen in Denmark, a bunch of others ive forgotten. All have been recuperated by mcdonalds in their respective countries to be used in marketing.
McDonalds is commonly referred to here in Australia as "Maccas" - so much so that Australian McDonalds stores and their Australian web site use that as well. I have one for you, I've noticed that people in the United States of America pronounce "herb" as "erb", dropping the H entirely. When asked, the common response is that it's a french word and thus they attempt to use french pronunciation, which apparently also drops the H. But here in Australia, and I believe at least in some regions of the United Kingdom, it's pronounced with the H, kind of like "Her-b". I know I have always pronounced it with the H, as does everyone around me in Australia. It may be a french loanword, but we are speaking English, and more specifically here we are using our Australian English language dialect rules, shaped by their own unique evolution and influences - from a later "version" of English from the late 1700s until about the 1960s directly from the UK, but also coloured by waves of immigration from what is now Germany with German speakers (producing the "Barossa German" dialect of German predominantly spoken in the Barossa Valley region of South Australia) and influencing the dialect of English spoken in the South Australian capital city of Adelaide to this day, which has a distinct sound which is noticeably closer to the pronunciation of words in German. I believe (and I could be wrong, as I'm no expert), at least in Australia, this German influence has had an impact upon how we pronounce some words - such as "herb", where we tend to use more of the German language pronunciation rules, where letters are more likely to not be silent - at least from my limited Deutsch sprache. Which is correct, with or without the H? Well, as much as it sounds "odd" to me to hear it without the H, I understand that it sounds equally as odd to people to hear the H if they're not used to it - so in a way, both are correct in their own regions. It is my understanding that this is how languages evolve - old English diverged in this way from the other North Sea Germanic languages, one of which went on to become modern German, with a number of changes occuring in both languages over time as they drifted apart, to the point that the two only share a few mutually intelligble words.
To add another level of wtf to the US, plant herbs are pronounced with a silent h like you said, but Herb, an old-timey male name, has a pronounced H sound.
Your theory about German influence on the word "herb" is a bit shaky. The Germanic word is "Kraut", but interestingly enough the German slang for McDonalds is similar to the Australian you mentioned: Meckes (2 syllables) There is a lot of overcorrection with foreign words though, so maybe you are partially right. For example the loanword guillotine was pronounced with an L sound in French when it was adopted into English. But in modern French it is more similar to an English Y which has caused a trend among English speakers to insist that is the correct English pronunciation as well. The moral is, someone is always going to take issue with however you pronounce foreign words.
@@timseguine2 It might not be the specific word for herb but the over-all treat of the letter H as a first letter in German words that had an effect. Personally I didn't know German migrants had an effect on it, and my own family is very English-Scottish-Irish in background, with my branch not being the South Australian branch of my maternal grandfather's family. If anything, I think German influence - if that is part of the reason - is further back and more likely a side effect of the Hanover Dynasty, all the way through to Saxe-Coburg Gotha family's influence on the royal line. If he royal family say things one way, it's probably filtered down, especially as modern media grew up through Queen Victoria's reign.
Herb was pronounced without the H at the time the USA broke away from Britain (similar to hour, honor, heir, etc). The British later started pronouncing it with the H.
I think Adam has my favorite segues into sponsor segments, they almost always either catch me off guard or make me chuckle, always so well tied in to the video in general. I really appreciate that--I know sponsors and ads are going to happen, may as well be amused :)
Great job on this video, big fan. I hope to see more of these types of videos in the future between your usuals. Don't let the lower view count discourage you from making more of these!
I'm a native french speaker but I have a very good level of american english, and people are sometimes surprised that I pronounce english words with a french pronunciation when I speak french, and I prononce french words with an american pronunciation when I speak english. It's both because I want people to understand me, and also because I don't want to sound like a tool! And my brain and mouth can't change that fast between two different accents
An addendum to Raguseas Law: Just look it up. For example, there's so many people that complain about not knowing how to pronounce "worcestershire" but at the same time are unwilling to do a quick Google search for the correct way to pronounce it. It literally takes less than 10 seconds and it's actually not hard to say at all if you just listen to someone say it correctly.
I want you to look up how to pronounce Worcester PA and Worcester Mass. "Looking it up" means picking an authority on pronunciation. I don't live in England, so why should I try to sound like someone from the Lea & Perrins company? Remember goal 3, don't sound like a tool. Worcestershire is admittedly easier to do this for, but then there's examples like Adam gave that use sounds outside of other folks' normal language(s) or dialect(s).
Using this video as a guide, could you show us how you'd pronounce certain dishes? I imagine you'd have to account for history, culture, and present pronunciations but it'd be real fun! Especially if it can turn into a teaching moment for your kids: maybe get them on camera and see how they'd choose to say words, whatever your family'd be comfortable with.
He probably would do it if it weren't for the religious foodies who cry heresy everytime they see something that they think is wrong, case in point comments under his Gyro video.
The whole point of this video is that there is no one correct way to say any word. The only valuable measure of "correctness" is intelligibility, and there's a very, very wide array of different way to say a word and still be intelligible. He said at the beginning, this isn't a guide.
hey i really love your videos! I love how informative and well thought out and researched they are, you clearly put in your work. just to nitpick one thing though, American English does have a tap/flap sound, it's in words like butter and ladder, that tiny "d" sound in the middle.
This is tough on the other side of the Chef's Counter too. I love drawing influence from other cultures when designing menus, but there's a certain expectation of knowledge, including correct pronunciation, when someone is paying you a decent chunk of change to make their meal.
This has always been interesting to me. I'm from South Dakota, and the capitol city is called Pierre. It is named after a Frenchman, but we pronounce it like "pier." I used to think that everyone around here is wrong because they don't say it like the French name, but I realized that language is pretty malleable
Holy shit adam, were you trolling us with the attempts ''authentic'' italian pronounciations? ''Pæstaynay'' and ''brrrewskeytawe'' literally made me flinch
I once worked around small groups of Italians that flew over here for work. They would constantly talk among each other while working. The enunciation and patter is definitely unique.
Added complication: I took too many years of Japanese in HS and college. I can't say ramen without flapping that R. My HS teacher would come out of her retirement to slap me upside the head (Really). I think we have an obligation to at least try, especially if we know better. I won't hold it against anyone for saying Ramen wrong, but you're the tool if you roll your eyes if I say it right.
Studied a second language. Studied classical singing, which involved semesters of diction in a couple more languages. Now actively attempt to flatten my pronunciations so I come off as less pretentious.
I used to work at a restaurant that sold gyros and would get INCREDIBLY annoyed when someone pronounced it wrong. Now I’m like, why did I waste my energy on that? Who freaking cares if someone doesn’t know the “right way” to pronounce something? It’s all subjective
Adam: How to pronounce tricky food names Adam 5 seconds later:This is not a guide for how to pronounce challenging food names Me:Eating Wait Wain that doesnt even exist
Title: how to pronounce tricky food names
Adam: this is not a guide on how to pronounce various potentially challenging food names
Lol. Although the topic of the video is a lot more interesting than I expected
he did answer how to do it though. "How?" - As close as you can with your native sounds :v
Well he laid out a framework for pronouncing tricky food names, which is what the title is referring to, rather than listing specific examples, which is what Adam's opening statement was referring to, so I think they're both right
He's a master of subversion
He did explain the native pronunciations for his examples though
I’m starting to think this guy lives in Macon, Georgia
I have his address if you want it
Ya main May kun?
@@heythere9707 can u give me it
i dont
I wasn’t sure, thanks!
"May I have a croissant?"
"Uh do you mean a KHWASSON?!"
That's when it's obnoxious... when someone corrects you. Especially if they're not native to the language.
@@GpD79 I have no idea if you're joking.
@@bittersweet8816 Nope, totally being serious. Someone who goes out of their way to correct another person's pronunciation, especially when the pronunciation is acceptable, is obnoxious.
I could have dropped my KHWASSON
Imagune getting angry at learning something I-
As a French, we don't pronounce McDo as "Mac Doo". The 'o' is pronouced in a similar way as in "let's go".
Just wanted to clarify, because the way Adam pronounced it sounded super weird.
It did make me laugh hearing that. I'd assume he'd only seen it written?
I did a french exchange program in highschool and was very confused when the french students suggested "on peut manger a MagDo..." and we ended up in a McDonalds.
And that's the story of how I ended up eating american fast-food within my first week of going to one of the culinary centers of the world.
Sidenote: Y'all have very clean McDonalds.
@@charleahar I really wonder what people experience when they comment on McDonalds outside of the US. I've been to McD's in multiple countries and they're clean, yeah, just like the ones I've been to in the US.
@@kaldo_kaldo my experience with McDonalds in the US has often been poorly-lit, with booths with their stuffing popping out of cracks in the vinyl. They don’t sweep as often as they should so there are stepped-upon piles of French fry mush under the tables
It’s not necessarily “dirty”, but it doesn’t feel inviting, it doesn’t feel comfortable, you kinda just want to get out of there.
In France, the buildings were very well lit, well maintained, and they very clearly swept up the spilled French fries, and washed down tables frequently. It wasn’t white tablecloth, but it really wasn’t a bad experience to sit down with your friends for a while, enjoy your royale, and chat and chill out.
@@charleahar Hmm, if I had to guess, those probably don't have involvement from McDonald's corporate. The one in my hometown (which I worked at for a year) was very well lit - the entire lobby was windows, and tons of electric lighting too. There were a few lobby staff who would clean up after customers immediately when they left. The chairs were all in good shape, nothing broken or worn down.
But every month, we had someone from the McDonald's corporate office inspecting our store to make sure it met their standards. It's not compulsory for franchise stores to do this, so I imagine that's the main difference.
"There is no institutional authority that gets to say what is right and what is wrong"
*Laughs in French Academy*
Real Academia Española too
despite what they claim they also don't get to do that
Laughs in Accademia della Crusca
They think they get to but they're undertaking a fool's errand lmao
Laughs in Academia Brasileira de Letr... wait they don't do that here
I just purposefully mispronounce every cooking-related word so that people think it's a joke to hide the fact that I don't know how to pronounce a lot of words.
"war chester shire sauce" *wink wink*
[god I hope they don't actually ask what the correct pronunciation is]
Afonso Verissimo I pronounce it like wore-shh- ter-sure sauce.
works everytime.
@Afonso Verissimo wooster sauce
"If they think you're being an idiot on purpose just for laughs, they'll never think you're an idiot when you don't actually know" - my philsophy. And sometimes it works
Ragusea's Law: Exists*
Bilingual people: *confused screaming
As I said, "native dialect or dialects."
Not really. you pronounce things differently depending on which language you are using. This authenticity nonsense is irrelevant.
Where can I find the recipe for Ragusea Slaw?
idk whenever I'm speaking English I anglicize all non anglo words. and when I'm speaking Spanish I Castilianize them all not Castilian words. but my mom dose that pompous pronouncing everything "correctly" thing and it pretty annoying
MmmVomit 😂
I'm from Texas. I pronounce tortilla like Tor-TEA-yah.
My girlfriend is from New Jersey. She pronounces it like Tor-TILL-ah.
It drives me insane.
I'm third generation Zony. My dad pronounces it TOR-til-la. I'm not entirely certain he doesn't do it just to annoy me in particular though.
As somebody from Jersey, she absolutely does that to annoy you. We pronounce it the same way you do
Turtle AAHHH
i always use "yah" because i was traumatized when god-zee-yah fought with the giant gor-ee-yah and destroyed my city :-)
The letters “illa” in Spanish is pronounced “EE-yah”, there is no debate to the pronunciation unless you’re ignorant.
Adam's goal for pronunciation: don't sound like a tool
Seconds later: Ragusea's Law
Jk
* RrrrrrraGUUUsea's Law
He did sound like a tool with that one though.
youre right on that account though.
@@ladybooog I just thought it was funny that was his goal but he was told enough to create a "law" in his name. I think that was done on purpose
@@alexricky87 Guy's been on the map for a year or so. If it was a joke, you don't render your "first draft of manifesto" down to nearly zero with a badly executed joke, but I could be taking this way too seriously as well, so "you do you my friend" :D
"Worcestershire sauce" - I always go with "british fish sauce"
That's harder for me to pronounce, like a tongue twister!
Britfish sauce
Wohshteshuh sauce
Woo-stir-shear.
Wuss-tish-er
Wuss-ter is also acceptable
Can I just point out that the "made-up" example at the beginning is totally supposed to be "white wine"
"I don't wanna sound pompous"
*names a law after himself*
EDIT: Holy hell none of you seem to get that this is a joke. I don't actually think he's pompous. Congrats to everyone trying to make me seem dumb, you played yourselves
Do people not normally do that?
@@FA-yi1vt Nope. Generally they are named after the person is dead to honour them
I hope you're joking. It's not pompous to try and explain things in a memorable way. It sounds like you've never been introduced to the shorthand.
m wooosh
r/whoosh to most people here
“There is no institutional authority that dictates how we speak language”, L’academie Française: “allow me to introduce myself”
Real Academia de la Lengua Española has joined the chat.
Don't most French people ignore them at this point?
Svenska Akademien is here to work upon the Swedish language's "purity, strength and sublimity"
Is that french academy? I'm just assuming
@@johnpatrickgonzaga5899 It's a government body that regulates the French language. It was originally created to enforce Parisian French on France.
This is the higher level cultural distinction that I need more of in my life. I feel like you get either side of the scale of your video in most discussions of language and culture.
On one end, you get people who say it’s splitting hairs to discuss the differentiations of the pronunciations of Gyro. On the other end, you get people talking to 100-year-old grandmother’s from Greece as an unyielding authority on the singular correct pronunciation of Gyro, as if they’ve tracked down and solved an unanswered mystery.
Adam, I appreciate the middle line you found with this content. You are educating viewers on various cultural nuances while refusing to declare any one of these cultures as the supreme owner of any one word. I think that’s a really nuanced and well thought out take, and I feel like I walked away from this video learning a new outlook on food pronunciation and culture. Thank you
Well said!
level -1 pronunciation: Facebook mums saying "merci" in the Italian restaurant
Mum: Mercy.
Waitress: Signore dammi forza
Mum: Thank you
@@kaldo_kaldo When I am in a Spanish restaurant, I always say "muchos". It means a lot to them.....
@@Karma-qt4ji This joke is criminally underrated.
"There is no institutional authority that dictates how we speak language"
Real Academia Española: Allow us to introduce ourselves.
and if you live in Québec: Office québécois de la langue française
"NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!"
oh wait...
I don't follow the RAE, it's too Spain centered. An example: The word "eximirse" is very used in Chile and other south american countries and they took it out of the dictionary because "it's not used any more". When I asked them about it they said: it's still in the "Diccionario the americanismos". Wtf? Why there is a kind of exceptions-dictionary for America when the majority of the world spanish speakers live here?
@@arii414 I get what you mean it is not as inclusive as it could be but its a good base for the formal tounge anyway. It does include a lot of the Argentinan verb differences tho I have been told
@@arii414 Por curiosidad, qué significa "eximirse"? Cuando lo busco en google solo salen los resultados de "eximir", que sí está en la RAE y sí se usa en España.
There's that and people pronouncing "tortilla" with an L sound.
Okay I'll say 'torteeya' but I'm also going to pronounced godzilla as 'godzeeya'. This is what you have wrought.
honestly to god never heard anyone say 'tortiLA' before haha but yeah I would get pretty triggered at that
I say torTILLa, but I do it ironically with a cartoonishly Southern drawl. And never in front of anyone who speaks Spanish.
@@daiinginside9845 Gradius' comment was clearly a joke
@@daiinginside9845 yeah dude I'm just trying to order some food and rent a movie. When I'm walking up to the counter at my local Mexican restaurant I'm not thinking about "the linguistic differences between our 2 cultures". I'm actually thinking about "oh shit did I leave my back door open?" I mean yeah I've never said tor-till-a but when I hear someone else say it i don't think of them differently. People have lives! They have jobs and kids to raise! Some Americans see 2 L's in a word and say tor-till-a and that's fine because they have other more important responsibilities to be thinking about then if they pronounced that word right. I'm lucky enough to have known the pronunciation of that word before seeing the spelling but other people aren't.
French people don't say "Macdew", but more something like "mac dough", a short phonetic version of Macdonald.
Source: Am french
je confirme ;)
everyone can try with a TTS website, and just type "je vais manger au MacDo" : ttsreader.com/fr/
The "o" sound in French sounds closer to the English "oo" than the English "oh" I think, but I agree it's definitely not the diphthong "ew", at least for the accents of French and English that I'm familiar with (Source: am Canadian)
Yeah my french friend says something like "Mack-doh" with equal emphasis on the mack and the doh
Try Australian for McDonalds: “maccas”
We need more proof that you are in fact am French.
This cooking channel is slowing becoming a philosophy channel. Eventually we’ll be discussing the existential problems of the universe.
Slowly, but surely.
what’s the meaning of life?
well it might be squarespace, the online...
on a simmering fire? I let myself out
Would that trouble you?
All good for me. I enjoy philosophical questions!
@@poopertin11 I'm fascinated by philosophy myself but as of late have often found it frustrating if you're actually using it to find real truth in the world and/or the best way to live a "good" life. Whatever that means. It seems to be that truth finding especially is perhaps impossible due to the immense complexity of life and the limited senses and brainpower we possess.
I mean I call "salad dressing" "veg sauce" so I've pretty much ascended beyond even being able to discuss food with anybody.
Adam once again with the smoothest transition into the sponsor of day, silky as butter my friend
Yeah but we still fast forward 30 seconds when we realize it
I didn’t even see it coming 😅. I always enjoy them
Micidiale Adam, micidiale.
I have never watched a commercial, I ff them.
He got me listening and turning my phone around to look at the potential.
That’s been my game watching his videos now: finger on the button all like “ok wheres he gonna slip it innnnnn.....there it is.” *fast forward*
There hasn’t been a “shocking secret” recipe in ages. I’m scared for when it happens
that’s the trick. if they’re released too often you won’t be shocked.
he's saving up for a megaphone to use for when he goes NO!!!
I still want to know what exploded in his oven that he tweeted about a few months ago.
White wine, it's always white wine.
NO! The easiest way to get a "shocking secret" recipe is to patiently wait and LET IT BOIL!
"We don't have the flap," almost immediately flaps t in 'that're'
we do have the flap, it comes when we say words quickly, like the double t in “butter”
@@YeetusTheFetus It's different though; when we say "butter" it just comes out like budder, rhymes with udder and shudder (and "another", if you're Joe Pesci). It's just a D.
when I worked at Wendy's someone asked me for a side of juh-LAP-a-nose. (jalapenos)
I was completely floored
@@yozul1 Yeah, I alternate between "ha-lah-pen-ohs" and "ja-lap-en-yos"
@@41A2E please do not pronounce it with a "j" lmao
@@HoratioAccel You can't tell me what to do! >:(
Besides, I say it correctly when I'm ordering at a restaurant or something, I just say it stupid as a joke when I'm around friends or whatever.
Went full on Ricky didn’t he?
That's nothing. Just after I got divorced I had my kids with me for the weekend and we went to a barbeque at a friend's house. Was chatting to this really nice lady I met there, who seemed to be as interested in me as I was in her. Casually, my 3 year old son walked up and started telling her about how I was growing a "yellow penis". 17 years has now passed and I still cringe when I think of that moment XD
French people don't pronounce it "McDoo", it's more "McDough"
To be a little bit more precise, since it's just the shortened version of "McDonald's", we naturally pronounce the "do" as it is pronounced in the complete name, just without the ending.
Such lazy people you know
yeah we here in germany call it "Mecces". well at least the young people.
je confirme, on raccourci en "MacDo" et "Do" sonne "Dough" chez nous ;)
yo les fr
Adam literally has the smoothest ad transitions I've seen xD
Then you haven’t seen LinusTechTips :3
The moment I realized it was an ad I went "oh you crafty fckr"
@@jadelock302 I only noticed when he said it
You should see babish
It is just as smooth as that clckr stand and grip he was using
My way of pronouncing names:
If I am in Japan, try my best to pronounce it the way the Japanese do, even if I cannot do it perfectly. At least I tried my best effort.
Agree completely, but I do draw the line on trying to mimic the accent.
@@Karma-qt4ji yeah no, imitating the accent is actually a key component if you want to pass Japanese exams
@@Karma-qt4ji japanese isn't as loose as english, all spellings are phonetic with very little wiggle room so if you don't nail down the accent you'll probably be misunderstood a lot
Okay, can we all agree that this was the smoothest ad transition ever made, by a TH-camr who's already known for them? Jesus Ragusea, that was greased silk.
We got it boys, a thumbnail of Adam Ragusea that has a "bruh" on it
*_B R U H_* .jpg
Bruh sound effect #2
Bruh(haha get it?)
Bruh_sound.mp3
Bruh.webm
Adam: I need something to hold up my phone
*grabs a yam*
Or maybe a *SWEET* *POTATO*
He heard about somebody yammering on their phone and misunderstood the meaning
I was doomed from the start. The first computer "game" I played was a thesaurus that would pronounce words on a click, had occasional pictures like a lion that would roar on click, & had an extensive & descriptive content.
Adam this is easily my favorite video of yours, and I love most of your videos. I'm a massive language nerd and your approach to this is truly excellent. I've never seen someone describe my own opinions to me and put words to my gut feelings so succinctly. Excellent, EXCELLENT work!
For reference, I say something like "euro" or "yeero," I say "brushetta," and I say "bolo-nay-zay" or "bolo-naze." Born and raised in southwest Ohio :)
College humor does an awesome video called "that guy who over pronounces words" or something like that. It's great.
That is a good video
That’s all i could think about through this
the MUUZARELL sticks
That video is amazing!
I think it's tough when you are bi-lingual/cultural. It feels weird trying to skirt around "sounding like a tool" when you really just want to say something the way you know it.
So relatable
My perspective is that if the people you're talking to are aware that you're biliingual or multicultural, they won't (or at least shouldn't) think you're sounding like a tool if you're speaking to be authentic. They'll have the context of knowing that you have more credibility in the matter since you are culturally-related or linguistically learned in that way. I think the pompousness is more for those who have no sort of connection to something yet since they "know" the correct way, they inflate their sense of worth by using the "proper" way to pronounce things, despite falling behind in intelligibility and, ironically, authenticity.
Drachen That's so relatable. People are always being so kind when they do want to communicate, since that's why we sometimes desperately tried to, eh, communicate. So whether we manage to find a workaround in that language, or they being considerate in understanding our smashing into it, which usually they do.
German here, when I talk to my American friends and use German names, I find myself subconsciously using American pronunciations. It's really funny. I don't do it on purpose, but it's part of code-switching I think. When I'm in "English mode", I sometimes even pronounce my own damn name differently from how it's actually pronounced.
@@DrachenYT I totally agree with you but unfortunately some people around me are not kind enough to not think that I am a prick who tries to create an impression of superior intelligency over them when I pronounce things "correctly" in other languages.
Honestly Adam, I am a bit hungover right now, and I decided to watch a few vids before starting on my uni work. I cannot stress how much I value your channel. Videos like this are just great, thank you for teaching me to cook - helping my family and making my friends happy - and thank you for creating just great quality informative videos.
A shift from [g] (the in English ) to [j] (the in English ) is actually not unique to the growth from ancient to modern Greek. It's an instance of "palatalization", which is the tendency to move the place your tongue goes while speaking to more often pass through the center-most region (namely, near the hard palate) because that tends to happen any time you move from a sound at one end off the mouth to a sound at the other end. Many parts of Anglo-Saxon also got palatalized as they grew into Modern English.
“Kinowa”
Me, an intellectual: *Kinwa*
Your name. Your Channel
That's how I first heard it pronounced
LMAOOO PUTTING THE CHECKMARK BEHIND YOUR NAME DKSKSKDKSKSKS-
That's much closer to the original. There is no proper 'o' sound in quechua
McDonald's also embraces being called Maccas in australia, the app is even called "mymaccas"
in brazil it's "méqui" where mé has the same sound as 'me' in 'meth' and 'qui' has the same sound as 'key'
Giving something a nickname has nothing to do with mispronounciation
In Spain we sometimes say "macas". And it's also kinda embraced by the company on social media
@@kai_nems ? you didn't watch the video before commenting i guess
@CuriousFrog Same In New Zealand
In France "McDo" is pronounced more like "Mac-Doh" rather than micdoo.
People are really out here pronouncing La Croix as "la kwah"
Im pretty sure it’s pronounced “Los Angeles Croyks”
this is really funny. good job.
EYO i didn't expect to see the man JM out here.
Yes.
I pronounce it luh-croy
"One of which... is ME!"
What a plot twist.
DUN DUN DUN
Is it really a plot twist though, his last name sounds pretty Italian
*gasp* the shock and horror
I believe the French pronounciation of “McDo” has a shorter “o”: “Mac-Doh”.
bobbler42 yeah basically.
You're correct
probably, but that is not a sound that americans use and therefor he pronounces it differently
@@joachimverheijden8845 I suppose, but to be honest it just sounds ignorant to mispronounce it if he's going to deliberately point how how the French say it
Joachim Verheijden Homer may be giving you sideeye…
"Tee-zat-zih-ky." DAMN IT, ADAM! LMAO.
Workouts look to be going well! Those biceps are popping out of that sweater!
he definitely made this bc of everyone roasting his pronunciation of gyro in that video
edit: oop just got to the part of the video where he mentions it lmao
Ha ha ha , here in Italy when we call a gyro (which I grew up pronouncing aw jī-rō) is called a kebab and is considered Middle Eastern.
Do you really not watch the whole video before commenting lol?
I find Ragusea's law comes quite naturally to me living in Finland. Foreign (mostly english) media, product and company names are everywhere to the point where you develop an innate feel for how they are pronounced "in finnish", just like you do for native words, except with a different ruleset.
mul on naik hattu ja meen nyt mäk donaldsii
Good Rapman pompous ass
th-cam.com/video/GIxKfXKGBGU/w-d-xo.html This sums up pretty well our mentality.
Good Rapman Boku wa fin go ni hanasemasen
mäkkäri
There is an approach you have to cooking that's really refreshing to see. There is no way this doesn't translate through your life.
A form of jeet-kun-do even. People in general can learn a lot from this channel therefore not exclusive to cooking.
Keep it up Adam !
As both a huge language nerd and a foodie, this video greatly pleases me. Kudos, Mr. Ragusea.
1:00 when he said „teezesikai“ I felt that
same
lol i feel i have taken part in the creation of this one
Your profile picture is one of the best I have ever seen.
Same here I called him out in the bolonaise the way he does
I love the way how balanced your words are.
Before I knew what a gyro was back in middle school, I would see the name on the sign of a nearby restaurant and mentally read it as "Jai ro". Then one day I was volunteering as an artist's helper during a city arts festival. Carting around water, watching stands while artists ran to the bathroom or whatever. One guy, when I asked if he needed anything, handed me some cash and asked me to get him a lamb "yee ro" from the food truck. I was like, "yeah, sure!" and confidently ran off to get it. Once out of sight, I panicked because I had no idea what the heck a "yee ro" was but I didn't want to look like an idiot for asking. The guy made the request like it was standard fare after all. So I walked around inspecting every food truck menu for lamb as an ingredient and came across the one selling gyros. I timidly approached the truck with the diminutive confidence of someone who was definitely about to butcher the key word I needed to say to place my order and asked for "one lamb ~ro please" in the hopes that the noise of the truck would drown out the first half of the word I just kind of stumbled over. Maybe it did, maybe it didn't. I'm sure he could have cared less. He got the order and I paid and ran back to the artist's stand. I got to keep the change and a tip on top of that. But yeah, all that to say I use "yee ro" for the pronunciation whenever I order them now.
Can we take a moment to appreciate how comfortable and expressive Adam is on camera? While other TH-camrs are either monotonous or over-expressive, Adam is able to talk about literally anything while keeping our attention through raw writing and speaking skill. Probably comes from his journalism background.
@Ferd Dorst only idiots call others autistic
@Ferd Dorst ok Fred Dorst
When faced with a tough question like, “How do I pronounce *blank*?”, just remember WWTBD. What would the brits do?
drink tea and take over every country they can see, i think
Matthew Shaw lol
How to pronounce zucchini? courgette
They take Worcestershire sauce and call it Wooster.....so I will not take their advice.
Badenhawk It’s actually wuster (but you do you)
“Ragusea’s law” 😊 is about the best way to handle this topic regardless of where you live on this planet! Respect.
I am reminded of a non-food-related example that my mother came up against with a friend she had for a while. During the 90s (I was a teen then) Mum became friends with a woman who joined our church, maybe a few good years younger, divorced with two pre-teen sons. But she was a Victorian and Victoria has a few dialect differences to other states, including a pronunciation of "castle" as closer to "kessel" than "car-sl" that NSW favours. Why is this significant? We were living in NSW and both she and Mum had plenty to do with our church's single people's club (for widows and divorcees) and one of the bigger branches of it was the Newcastle branch. FYI, Newcastle is a city north of Sydney, one of the bigger NSW cities, used too be a metal refining centre, had an earthquake in... '89? I think? As Mum held, calling Newcastle "New-kessel" to a resident's face would be insulting, because they call it "New-car-sl".
So I think that fits into your paradigm of "Do people own it?" because as Mum held, and I agree, residents have first rights on how the name of their town or city is pronounced. I also think the second string is how state news broadcasts call it, in the case of a city like Mackay, which can be called the way it looks, but I most often hear it called in rhyme with "eye" on the second syllable, on QLD evening TV news.
"That's a made-up word!"
"All words are made up!"
“I understood that reference”
Tick uh muss allah
Yeahhhh French people do not say "McDoo", lmao. It's "McDo", with a "do" like in "do re mi" (similar to "dough").
McDo(ugh) makes way more sense than the Australian version of McDonald's which is "Macca's" 😂. McDo just sounds like you're shortening it, which I think is common in a lot of languages. Even American English.
Really? I always thought it was McDo as in door
Yeahhh French people don't say McDough lmao. There's no 'w' sound at the end of McDo, like there is in the English word dough.
Mcdonalds Abbreviatons in various cultures are fascinating,
Yo have McDo in France, Maccas in Australia, Maccen in Denmark, a bunch of others ive forgotten. All have been recuperated by mcdonalds in their respective countries to be used in marketing.
Swedish people say "Donken" :)
French people don't call McDonald's "mac-doo", they call it "mac-doe" (pronounced like though), and spelt mcdo
McDonalds is commonly referred to here in Australia as "Maccas" - so much so that Australian McDonalds stores and their Australian web site use that as well.
I have one for you, I've noticed that people in the United States of America pronounce "herb" as "erb", dropping the H entirely. When asked, the common response is that it's a french word and thus they attempt to use french pronunciation, which apparently also drops the H.
But here in Australia, and I believe at least in some regions of the United Kingdom, it's pronounced with the H, kind of like "Her-b". I know I have always pronounced it with the H, as does everyone around me in Australia. It may be a french loanword, but we are speaking English, and more specifically here we are using our Australian English language dialect rules, shaped by their own unique evolution and influences - from a later "version" of English from the late 1700s until about the 1960s directly from the UK, but also coloured by waves of immigration from what is now Germany with German speakers (producing the "Barossa German" dialect of German predominantly spoken in the Barossa Valley region of South Australia) and influencing the dialect of English spoken in the South Australian capital city of Adelaide to this day, which has a distinct sound which is noticeably closer to the pronunciation of words in German.
I believe (and I could be wrong, as I'm no expert), at least in Australia, this German influence has had an impact upon how we pronounce some words - such as "herb", where we tend to use more of the German language pronunciation rules, where letters are more likely to not be silent - at least from my limited Deutsch sprache.
Which is correct, with or without the H? Well, as much as it sounds "odd" to me to hear it without the H, I understand that it sounds equally as odd to people to hear the H if they're not used to it - so in a way, both are correct in their own regions. It is my understanding that this is how languages evolve - old English diverged in this way from the other North Sea Germanic languages, one of which went on to become modern German, with a number of changes occuring in both languages over time as they drifted apart, to the point that the two only share a few mutually intelligble words.
To add another level of wtf to the US, plant herbs are pronounced with a silent h like you said, but Herb, an old-timey male name, has a pronounced H sound.
But herb is from the Latin herba...
Your theory about German influence on the word "herb" is a bit shaky. The Germanic word is "Kraut", but interestingly enough the German slang for McDonalds is similar to the Australian you mentioned: Meckes (2 syllables)
There is a lot of overcorrection with foreign words though, so maybe you are partially right. For example the loanword guillotine was pronounced with an L sound in French when it was adopted into English. But in modern French it is more similar to an English Y which has caused a trend among English speakers to insist that is the correct English pronunciation as well.
The moral is, someone is always going to take issue with however you pronounce foreign words.
@@timseguine2 It might not be the specific word for herb but the over-all treat of the letter H as a first letter in German words that had an effect.
Personally I didn't know German migrants had an effect on it, and my own family is very English-Scottish-Irish in background, with my branch not being the South Australian branch of my maternal grandfather's family.
If anything, I think German influence - if that is part of the reason - is further back and more likely a side effect of the Hanover Dynasty, all the way through to Saxe-Coburg Gotha family's influence on the royal line. If he royal family say things one way, it's probably filtered down, especially as modern media grew up through Queen Victoria's reign.
Herb was pronounced without the H at the time the USA broke away from Britain (similar to hour, honor, heir, etc). The British later started pronouncing it with the H.
Gordon Ramsay be like:
SHÅLOTS
Underrated
@@mooniversityisteinhurensoh3031 eggxacly
@Alex Carpenter TIME
I dont want to be that guy but he's from scotland
shah lotz
11:13 ''There is no institutional authority that gets to say what is right and what is wrong!'' - Laughs in Académie française
hahaha exactly what I was thinking
The Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa Republik Indonesia: silently observing in Jakarta
I think Adam has my favorite segues into sponsor segments, they almost always either catch me off guard or make me chuckle, always so well tied in to the video in general. I really appreciate that--I know sponsors and ads are going to happen, may as well be amused :)
I think it's cool what sponsors you decide to choose
Damn, i was waiting for "Thüringer Klöße".
There's a song. If you mention them, you are contractually obligated to mention the song...
I was just showing my father how great of a cook you were! He just followed you!
Great job on this video, big fan. I hope to see more of these types of videos in the future between your usuals. Don't let the lower view count discourage you from making more of these!
I'm a native french speaker but I have a very good level of american english, and people are sometimes surprised that I pronounce english words with a french pronunciation when I speak french, and I prononce french words with an american pronunciation when I speak english. It's both because I want people to understand me, and also because I don't want to sound like a tool! And my brain and mouth can't change that fast between two different accents
polish people: pierogi
any existing life in milky way: pIeRoGiS
Came here to comment that! Like I don't blame them, especially given the letter ó in the singular, but it sounds so jarring!
Вареники
I learned how to say Italian dishes from JoJo part 5
DI MOLTO
They pronounce it very wrong there, though...
So you learn to how to say "Gyro" because of Steel Ball Run?
Mozzaza
Naysu
Thank you, this addressed some of my concerns I had about different brand names, and it was done with sufficient nuance. Really, good video.
thanks again Mr. Ragusea, I enjoy your videos
This channel has changed sooooo much since I subscribed!. It’s so much more interesting and interactive! Keep up the great work Adam!
An addendum to Raguseas Law: Just look it up. For example, there's so many people that complain about not knowing how to pronounce "worcestershire" but at the same time are unwilling to do a quick Google search for the correct way to pronounce it. It literally takes less than 10 seconds and it's actually not hard to say at all if you just listen to someone say it correctly.
Right. "Guys, I'm sorry, I'm an idiot" just look up the damn word and try it.
I want you to look up how to pronounce Worcester PA and Worcester Mass. "Looking it up" means picking an authority on pronunciation. I don't live in England, so why should I try to sound like someone from the Lea & Perrins company? Remember goal 3, don't sound like a tool. Worcestershire is admittedly easier to do this for, but then there's examples like Adam gave that use sounds outside of other folks' normal language(s) or dialect(s).
Just call it "Wooster" and be done with it
Except there are multiple ways of pronouncing that one. There is an established American pronunciation and it ain't "Wooster."
Such a smooth sponsor plug, Adam!
Ahhhhh, Gene Parmesan!!
That was a perfect transition to the sponsor. You really got me. I didn't even see it coming.
Using this video as a guide, could you show us how you'd pronounce certain dishes?
I imagine you'd have to account for history, culture, and present pronunciations but it'd be real fun! Especially if it can turn into a teaching moment for your kids: maybe get them on camera and see how they'd choose to say words, whatever your family'd be comfortable with.
He probably would do it if it weren't for the religious foodies who cry heresy everytime they see something that they think is wrong, case in point comments under his Gyro video.
The whole point of this video is that there is no one correct way to say any word. The only valuable measure of "correctness" is intelligibility, and there's a very, very wide array of different way to say a word and still be intelligible.
He said at the beginning, this isn't a guide.
Why would I do this when I could just mispronounce everything and make people irrationally angry?
Perfect
This stance creates balance
I just love making people mad at things they have no control over
This is what Adam has built his youtube channel up for.
hey i really love your videos! I love how informative and well thought out and researched they are, you clearly put in your work. just to nitpick one thing though, American English does have a tap/flap sound, it's in words like butter and ladder, that tiny "d" sound in the middle.
Your ad transitions are so smooth, I often replay them just to witness their brilliance again.
This is tough on the other side of the Chef's Counter too. I love drawing influence from other cultures when designing menus, but there's a certain expectation of knowledge, including correct pronunciation, when someone is paying you a decent chunk of change to make their meal.
Wow this has to be one of the smoothest transitions you-NEY! Anyone has ever made. Well done, sir.
This has always been interesting to me. I'm from South Dakota, and the capitol city is called Pierre. It is named after a Frenchman, but we pronounce it like "pier." I used to think that everyone around here is wrong because they don't say it like the French name, but I realized that language is pretty malleable
Damn that new kitchen is looking really dope
hi adam
i'm not buying your game todd
Skyrim
LOL TODD HOWARD???
Holy shit adam, were you trolling us with the attempts ''authentic'' italian pronounciations? ''Pæstaynay'' and ''brrrewskeytawe'' literally made me flinch
I once worked around small groups of Italians that flew over here for work. They would constantly talk among each other while working. The enunciation and patter is definitely unique.
Added complication: I took too many years of Japanese in HS and college. I can't say ramen without flapping that R. My HS teacher would come out of her retirement to slap me upside the head (Really). I think we have an obligation to at least try, especially if we know better. I won't hold it against anyone for saying Ramen wrong, but you're the tool if you roll your eyes if I say it right.
Studied a second language. Studied classical singing, which involved semesters of diction in a couple more languages. Now actively attempt to flatten my pronunciations so I come off as less pretentious.
We have been debating this for a while , but where exactly IS he upside of the head?
The teacher should have no right to slap you
i flap the r when i speak japanese and don't when speaking English. it really just depends on the language I'm speaking
But I think we can all agree that people who say raymen are wrong.
"WaitWain" I see what you did there....
Actually-- American English does have flap, usually wherever you see "tt" (Butter, etc), also words like "water".
Well thats the flap T but we dont have the flap R. Similar but different sounds
@@HelloHello-vk5ob They're the same unless I missed something becoming a linguist. Both should be the alveolar flap '/ɾ/'
wa'ah
@@ImyaSmol I don't think the word "water" is pronounced with a flap r
@@xmrun In standard Americam pronunciation, it is.
I used to work at a restaurant that sold gyros and would get INCREDIBLY annoyed when someone pronounced it wrong. Now I’m like, why did I waste my energy on that? Who freaking cares if someone doesn’t know the “right way” to pronounce something? It’s all subjective
Adam: How to pronounce tricky food names
Adam 5 seconds later:This is not a guide for how to pronounce challenging food names
Me:Eating Wait Wain that doesnt even exist
That was the smoothest transition to an ad that i have ever seen!
Most well rounded food channel on TH-cam ✊🏼
My mum just goes to a restaurant and when she knows she can’t pronounce it right, she just points at it lol
Damn that sponsor transition was so smooth I was caught off guard.
"There is no institution that controls language"
Laughs in Académie Française !
the "sounding pompous" bit made me immediately think of croissants, and i couldn't help but say "xwassonh" out loud
Adam’s transition into his sponsor is always perfect lol