Can confirm.Half of the Philadelphia Area pronounce it like her.
I am not one of those heathens.
Mario's name pronunciation serious businessYes, 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.
You must have never played a Mario game then.
Come on, it's clearly pronounced "Paggy".
I've played a few and Assassin's Creed II
She pronounced a name funny? Really? Stealth Ellen Page hate thread?
She's pronouncing it correctly though
Americans having the tenacity to butcher an Italian name and then trying to tell the rest of the world they're saying it wrong... wow
Except according to Mario (voice actor and by association Nintendo) she is NOT.... Also it's a 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 "Americans" generalizations that seem to be so prevalent in places NOT America.
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She says it how I say it. And how Italians would say it
You can't say 'because he says his own name thats how its spoken'. Thats an American localisation/accent thing IMO - in the UK or Italy you'd call that person Marry-O like she does.
She says it how I say it. And how Italians would say it
You can't say 'because he says his own name thats how its spoken'. Thats an American localisation/accent thing IMO - in the UK or Italy you'd call that person Marry-O like she does.
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'
You're arguing semantics... This is far CLOSER to Martinet's pronunciation than Mary-oh.... or Merry-oh....
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?
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?
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.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.