Sansui pronuciation?
Tony M
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Just read this. Is this true?
here's some trivia. Sansui is not pronounced San Sue We. It's two syllables, sawn swee. Ain't that a kick?
here's some trivia. Sansui is not pronounced San Sue We. It's two syllables, sawn swee. Ain't that a kick?
Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
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Sound sweet?Post edited by xschop onDon't take experimental gene therapies from known eugenicists.
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Only one problem with that...
Of course, this post may have been written by Thomas Jefferson. It is the internet, after all.
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I've always said San-souwee. I think it's close enough.
Better than the way most of us Amurricans (including Paul Simon, of course, and me
) pronounce Nikon -- with a long "i". It should be more like Kneeko(n) -- short i and kind of swallowing the n.
At any rate, of course Sansui is French: Sans UI.
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In 1978 it was pronounced Sansui. Maybe this'll help. Just ask Stanley the audiophile.
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In 1978 it was pronounced Sansui. Maybe this'll help.
This is how I have always pronounced it as well. I don't really care if it's incorrect, my American eyes read it send it to my American brain which then pronounces it with my American tongue.
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It could be like Technics. We say “Teckneeks” and other parts of the world say “Tecknicks.”
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Hehehe....my son got a Porsche for Christmas one year and after he unwrapped it, we asked him what he got. His response?
With a big smile on his face, he said..."I got a Pour-schaay!"
In his defense, he was only about 4 and had never heard the word pronounced before. Gotta love the innocence of children...
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Neech-chee or Neech-cha?
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The German stuff is all very easy to pronounce; Germans gots rules.
Nietzsche, Porsche -- easy, peasy. that sche is kind of a -schuh sound; the e more like a schwa than a long e (or even a short e). The old mnemonic of pronouncing Porsche like Shakespeare's Portia will get you close enough for Government work.
The one German name I struggle with to this day, though, is Goethe.
Mind you, I minored in German in college and was (technically, still am) a member of two German honor fraternities... but there's just a little too much goin' on in too few letters in Goethe.
My solution? I just try not to talk about him.
PS I've always said "Teck-nicks" -- Philistine that I am. Based on the wee bit I know about Japanese pronunciation, my SWAG is that it would best be said "Tek-oh-neeks", with that middle syllable sort of glossed over on the way from the beginning to the end.
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My Nakamichi knocks in my Mitsubishi.Don't take experimental gene therapies from known eugenicists.
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When I lived in the Silicon Valley, I used to often see a Mitsubishi pickup truck, the lettering on the tailgate had been altered to read ITS BISHI
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I saw a Honda Passport the other day that was turned into an "A S S PORT." 😳😂
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Translated 3 Diamonds. A Japanese colleague at my university said he'd never own one again. Shift mechanism stranded him in the middle of the highway doing a U-turn.Don't take experimental gene therapies from known eugenicists.
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Hehehe....my son got a Porsche for Christmas one year and after he unwrapped it, we asked him what he got. His response?
With a big smile on his face, he said..."I got a Pour-schaay!"
In his defense, he was only about 4 and had never heard the word pronounced before. Gotta love the innocence of children...
Tom
"Pour-schaay" That's great!It could be like Technics. We say “Teckneeks” and other parts of the world say “Tecknicks.”
I also really like "Tecknicks"!
Me personally Being a "Porschephile" I'll stick to the German pronunciation and as an American "Teckneeks".
I am Dyslexic on the other hand so words have a funny way of not being spoken correctly occasionally?
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Just read this. Is this true?
here's some trivia. Sansui is not pronounced San Sue We. It's two syllables, sawn swee. Ain't that a kick?
About the ten second mark is her way. If it says so in a video it has to be right, right?
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SCompRacer wrote: »I like the British accent one.
*In my best British accent*
Oh, Blaught-dhy hell...
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SCompRacer wrote: »
The British accent one seems to have equal emphasis on the first two syllables, while the American has the emphasis on the second. As a Brit, I have always pronounced it in what they are calling the American pronunciation and can't remember anyone British pronouncing it like they say. However, it has been 35 years................. -
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Does that mean, if someone took this away from me, I'd be....
Sans Shushi ?
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Really guys, y'all got too much time on your hands.
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I can't believe no one's asked how you pronounce "pronuciation" yet.
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I'm more into amateurnunciation, personally -- although I do aspire to pro status.
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