Sheldon said:Dee Randall said:Can anyone write out the pronounciation of Bugialli - Bug ee ah
yi? Usually there is an "l" after the g" - as in Bugliosi, but this
one has me puzzled.
*Sometimes* there's an "l" after a "g." More often, not.
When you see the "gl" combination (as in Bugliosi), it's pronounced as
though it were Boo-lyo-see. The "gl" doesn't have hard "G" sound in
Italian, only when pronounced in English. The combination of "GN" is
pronounced without a "g" sound, too, as in bagno - bahn-yo
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Bugialli, Giuliano - Italian author of cook books.
Boo jee 'ah lee Jew lee 'ah no... eh!
Nonsense. It's boo-jah-lee, joo-lya-no. "gia" is pronounced "jah" and
"giu" is "joo." "ia" is a diphthong and pronounced "ya."
Quoted message said:Actually there is no exact English transliteration
Actually, "transliteration" means to go from one alphabet to another,
pretentious moron. You mean "phonetic transcription" where the sounds of
one language are rendered with the approximately similar sounds of another.
The Italian alphabet is the same one we use, with five letters missing
(only used with foreign words). How to pronounce everything in Italian,
the alphabet, letter combinations and everything else....
<http://italian.about.com/od/pronunciation/>
Quoted message said:for the Italian "g"... it's kind of a twisted blend of a shoe and a
jew. Think Genoa.
Thanks for being so pompously, stupidly wrong, Mr. Italian language
expert. "Genoa" is an English word. "Genova" is the Italian one. It's
pronounced as thought it were spelled with an English "J" just like
jackass. Jackass.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genova>
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