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Ellen Page pronounces Mario incorrectly, freakin' unbelievable
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I wonder if real Marios ever get mad people pronounce their name wrong thanks to that squat plumber.
I dunno if this counts at all canonically because SMB2 isn't a real Mario game. It's a reskinned Doki Doki Panic for audiences outside of Japan.
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I know a lot of game history pretty well, but I did confirm this one with Wikipedia. It's pretty widely known anyway.
I'm so glad my name isn't Mario, because the likely scenario of some people pronucing my name "Merio" would drive me mad. lol
So what point in that video should I watch?
Not getting a time stamp on mobile just starts at the start of the video
Not getting a time stamp on mobile just starts at the start of the video
Besmirchment and heresy will not be tolerated!
I don't really care as much as it might seem, I just think it's kind of a funny hill to die on.
She pronounced a name funny? Really? Stealth Ellen Page hate thread?
Edit: badly worded, pre-coffee my apologies.. sure there won't be a problem on this forum.
Edit: badly worded, pre-coffee my apologies.. sure there won't be a problem on this forum.
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I think it's more of a "this is the best we can do to criticize her for" thread. Besides her performance or lack thereof in the Last of Us.
Except according to Mario (voice actor and by association Nintendo) she is NOT.... Also it's tendency, tanacity while it makes (some) sense it isn't appropriate for what you're trying to describe. So, it'd be cool if you laid off the "American" generalizations that seem to be so prevalent in places NOT America. The tendency to do so is utterly strenuous and mind numbingly tiring to encounter.
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You're correct. A more appropriate word would be "gall" or "temerity" if using something that starts with "t". There are other synonyms as well int terms of individual words as well as idioms.
Tenacity means something similar, but oh so different.
Thats's wrong and i don't know where you got this from. You don't call a Mario "Marry-o" in Italy LOL.
No...
Italians do not pronounce it Mary-oh
Mah (rolled R sound) Ree Oh... Phonetically speaking Martinet says it closer to Italians than Mary-oh will ever be!
Sorry!
is this wrong then?
Martinet is more Mar-ee-o (Mar as in mars) - this is more 'ma' as in 'magic'
or are we talking more about the cadence than the sounds? So Maaaaa-rio rather than Ma-Ri-O? Still a hard 'ma' but held a little longer?
My parents pronounce it that way because they apparently knew someone in college named Mario that pronounced it that way. Maybe it's a Canadian thing.
You're arguing semantics... This is far CLOSER to Martinet's pronunciation than Mary-oh.... or Merry-oh....
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jvp7_FR1prE
In fact they're almost the same!!
OK - but to me that's close to how ellen page sounded? Maybe the accent was odd - she sounded English for some reason, so it comes across flatter?
Then you need to listen again.... she is saying Merry-oh
Like merry Christmas not Mah
I'm not Italian and haven't studied the language, but I think this is still correct. The current VA just kind of has an extra affectation that's more of a personality/excitement thing I think (he's COMING UP AND YOU BETTER GET THIS PARTY STARTED, because It's a me, Mario!)
Either way, it's not realistically Marry-O, like Page pronounced it, and bizarrely, some Canadians and others seem to believe.
The closest thing to Marry-O I can think of is the pronunciation of "mariposa" in Spanish, as far as I'm aware. Which means butterfly by the way.
Sort of on topic, I want to bring up that I still find Spanish rolled "R"s to be difficult a lot of the time to sound authentic. Like "burro". Which is commonly translated as "dumb" or kind of stubborn as an adjective, or "donkey" as a noun. Related concepts.
Seems to be another one of the Seega Sayga Sehga threads where, whichever is correct, people cannot her the clear diferrence between two distinct pronunciations.
Not having a go at you, if they sound the same to you they sound the same to you. But they are actually very clearly different. Maybe certain native accents colour how people's brains perceive sounds, and made some sound the same or more similar than they actually are?