Canaries in a coal mine - the other teams thread

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  1. Arsenal_NGA

    Arsenal_NGA Member+

    Jan 12, 2014
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Arguing about pronunciations of Spanish names on a soccer message board....... is fun!
     
  2. Jamooky

    Jamooky Member+

    Mar 24, 2006
    Cleveland, OH USA
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I find it fascinating. I suggest we all read Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue and reconvene to discuss. :D
     
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  3. InTheSun

    InTheSun Member+

    Oct 20, 2005
    The Andes Mountains
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ecuador
    What else are we going to talk about, the chances of Arsene spending 70m in the summer? pttthhh. :laugh:
     
  4. goonermaui

    goonermaui Arsenal No Ka 'Oi

    May 12, 2006
    Lahaina Maui
    I have to pronounce Hawaiian surnames and place names on a daily basis, and do a pretty good job of it, if I do say so myself.:)

    It's pretty easy once you get used to the pronouncing the vowels correctly ..i.e.
    a “ah”
    e “eh”
    i “ee”
    o “oh”
    u “oo”
    Then you just have to remember how to stress them when used after a consonant.
    There are 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet (a, e, i, o, u, h, k, l, m, n, p, w)
    Plus a 13th "letter" called "okina" that is written as an apostrophe.

    e.g.

    The name KAHOOHALAHALA
    KA(h) - HO(h) - O(h) - HA(h) - LA(h) - HA(h) - LA(h)

    The places HALEAKALA
    HA(h) - LE(eh) - A(h) - KA(h) - LA(h)

    WAILUKU
    WAI(ee) - LU(oo) - KU(oo)

    And of course WAIKIKI
    WAI(ee) - KI(ee) - KI(ee)
     
  5. InTheSun

    InTheSun Member+

    Oct 20, 2005
    The Andes Mountains
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ecuador

    So pretty much a phonetic language, like Spanish.
     
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  6. Jamooky

    Jamooky Member+

    Mar 24, 2006
    Cleveland, OH USA
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    And Welsh!

    :confused:
     
  7. goonermaui

    goonermaui Arsenal No Ka 'Oi

    May 12, 2006
    Lahaina Maui
    There oo go boyoh ! :D
     
  8. thebigman

    thebigman Member+

    May 25, 2006
    Birmingham
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    Lord bigus trollus knows when trolling attempts are being made and not to bite......it usually is the result of a bigsoccer pseudo intellectual is very mad, maybe because his manager is becoming an expert in failure this season? ;)
     
  9. nicephoras

    nicephoras A very stable genius

    Fucklechester Rangers
    Jul 22, 2001
    Eastern Seaboard of Yo! Semite
    I'm not surprised the English no longer understand the meaning of the word failure either. Must be all that exposure to Arsene Wenger :)
     
  10. AEAAFC96

    AEAAFC96 Member+

    Mar 27, 2006
    NYC
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  11. AEAAFC96

    AEAAFC96 Member+

    Mar 27, 2006
    NYC
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    #2711 AEAAFC96, Apr 24, 2014
    Last edited: Apr 24, 2014
    I rolled my eyes when I saw that...f**king £70 million?! REALLY?!

    United's could spend close to £200 million...and they won't be in the Champions League this season~! Where in the blue hell is the ambition here?! :mad:

    EDIT: Seriously, Liverpool's spent less money than Arsenal had, had a smaller squad than Arsenal have, they don't have the revenue streams Arsenal have...and they're going to win the league.

    Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke should be embarrassed by that.
     
  12. Serengeti_Boy

    Serengeti_Boy Member+

    Sep 15, 2009
    Serengeti, East Africa
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Tanzania
    So miquel joins the number of players to have left arsenal and won ?
     
  13. Owen Gohl

    Owen Gohl Member

    Jun 21, 2000
    Some here may want to take a tour of the British Isles in accents.

     
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  14. Jamooky

    Jamooky Member+

    Mar 24, 2006
    Cleveland, OH USA
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    He probabaly hasn't appeared enough for them to earn a medal.
     
  15. Arsenal_NGA

    Arsenal_NGA Member+

    Jan 12, 2014
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    thebigman calling niceforas ''pseudo intellectual''?

    Shit got real!
     
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  16. NorthBank

    NorthBank Member+

    Arsenal; NYRB
    United States
    Mar 29, 2006
    Connecticut
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    THAT is brilliant. That guy is an accent wizard!

    It's one thing to recognize them all which i can sort of do.

    But yet another thing to verbalize them while morphing from one to another.

    I'm in awe of whomever that was.
     
  17. Tonerl

    Tonerl Member+

    Arsenal
    May 10, 2006
    Cincinnati, OH
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    What?
     
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  18. aphex

    aphex Member

    Jul 11, 2006
    Charlotte
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    [​IMG]
     
  19. Bluto11

    Bluto11 The sky is falling!

    May 16, 2003
    Chicago, IL
    #2719 Bluto11, Apr 24, 2014
    Last edited: Apr 24, 2014
    They have played about 10 less matches and have had less injuries. While I will agree that this has been the best chance for Arsenal to win the league, you can't discount those factors. Shit, now I sound like a Wenger apogist. Shit, shit, now I've really given myself away.
     
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  20. Super Llama

    Super Llama Member+

    May 21, 2006
    Seattle
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
  21. goonsquad

    goonsquad Member

    Apr 1, 2004
    Los Angeles
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Since never! They've spent over 100m more than us over the past 3 years.
     
  22. InTheSun

    InTheSun Member+

    Oct 20, 2005
    The Andes Mountains
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ecuador
    LOL. The irony...
     
  23. The Jitty Slitter

    The Jitty Slitter Moderator
    Staff Member

    Bayern München
    Germany
    Jul 23, 2004
    Fascist Hellscape
    Club:
    FC Sankt Pauli
    Nat'l Team:
    Belgium
    The bigman and English are only loosely acquainted

     
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  24. thebigman

    thebigman Member+

    May 25, 2006
    Birmingham
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    Im a propa englishman m8
     
  25. InTheSun

    InTheSun Member+

    Oct 20, 2005
    The Andes Mountains
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ecuador
    I had a Brummie house guest one time. Speaking with him, he might as well have been lithuanian.
     

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