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Ellen Page pronounces Mario incorrectly, freakin' unbelievable
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She's a woman, she's bi/lesbian or just lesbian. Supports the lgbtq community, etc
Any one of those reasons is enough for trash to hate her
That isn't the Last of Us...
I'm sorry but I love this misconception.
this is Maah-Rio
this is Mary-O
I'm not sure what the latter image is from but I chuckled.
I'm confused. You're saying that this is different to what she says? To me, both this and Ellen Page are saying "Marry-o", which I believe is correct. Americans always seem to pronounce it "Maar-i-o", which doesn't match either his actual Japanese name (マリオ), or the Italian pronunciation.
Ellen Page got her start on Trailer Park Boys. Still can't believe it.
It's actually pretty common for people to "anglosize (?)" their names. In Canada i find people take pride in trying our best to pronounce a persons name as intended in original language. Italian is a common one, even the name Luciana people will pronounce the proper italian way. Lou-Chee-Ah-Nah. I have a friend though whose name is Luciana, and her parents at the time being new immigrants were not aware that Canadians generally put effort into these things.....so they anglosized her name to be Lou-see-Ah-Nah. And now she has to constantly correct people.
Canada has a lot of regional variation. You're going to find less "aboats" and "pro-jects" on the West coast. But yeah, "Merry-o" used to be common across Canada. Since Super Mario 64, there have been way more people pronouncing it "Mah-rio" since they gave it an official pronunciation.
I remember Nintendo's SMB2 commercial said "Merry-o" back in the day, though.
Yes, the English pronunciation in that video is very different from what Ellen Page said. I'd recommend any (native especially) English speaker get their ears checked or cleaned out if they think that sounds the same. Whether or not you believe one pronunciation to be correct or not.
It's similar to the difference between Lara and Laura Croft, which I sometimes catch myself making the mistake on. Because Lara as it should be pronounced is not nearly as common a name (in the United States at least) vs. Laura.
There's regional dialects of English sure, but it's not like there's an extremely hard to pronounce accent going on with the iconic Nintendo character's name, at least for native speakers. (I can't really roll my Rs well in Spanish, for example, and I have trouble with some of the more lisp-like pronunciations of a few other morphemes).
I hate this one because the "correct" pronunciation that eventually made it's way into voiced dialogue in some English games is way worse than the "incorrect" one, from a native speaker's POV. It makes way less sense thematically, even if it's more accurate to the Japanese version of the name.
Huh, never heard that one. How do you pronounce resource?
Ellen Page is better than you nerds. Like, why do you even care how she pronounces it? Is she not a real gaemer now? Fuck it. Let's rise up. #EllenPageDestroyYourSwitchAndApologize
I think I know how you say pasta, and well:
Your brutality in the pronunciation of the word pasta is likely a felony in many parts of the US if not other areas of the world.
"I can't handle all the new stuff, because I'm, like, old".
Yeah, you poor, ancient, wrinkled, shriveled 30 year old granny. >_>
Yeah, you poor, ancient, wrinkled, shriveled 30 year old granny. >_>
Yup and the same pretty much applies for all of Canadians of a certain age— which I am, and so is Ellen Page.
true, it's not merryo (ellen) or mawrio (most americans), it's mahrio
Interesting. I'm from Philly and grew up saying it the same way. After moving to the NY metro I got made fun of enough that I switched over. But that's a good theory on why and could explain why a Canadian like Ellen Paige might do the same.
So are you saying soft-enough Canadians wouldn't last in the NY Metro?
I can only say it as "Mah-rio", every voice line in a game+my dad speaking Italian conditioned me to say it the CORRECT way.
It's like pronouncing Sonic as "Sow-nic" instead of "Sah-nic" despite the character themselves saying their name for years.
It's like pronouncing Sonic as "Sow-nic" instead of "Sah-nic" despite the character themselves saying their name for years.
That's funny, I wonder if that's how other Canadians say it as well or she picked it up from the NW somewhere.
Of course, when the actual creator of the character calls it a certain way. Indirectly telling him "No, that's not how you say your character's name" is silly.
Of course, when the actual creator of the character calls it a certain way. Indirectly telling him "No, that's not how you say your character's name" is silly.