Piranya? lol
How about the one guy who kept calling the fish piranya? I thought that was hysterical. I do really like this movie though. But that always cracked me up.
http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=9438623
That is actually the proper pronunciation of the word. "Piranha" is a Portuguese word, and the "nh" in Portuguese makes a sound like the "ni" in the English words "senior" or "onion".
Another example: estranho [strange] (pronounced "es-TRAHN-yo")
I'm not fluent at all in Portuguese, but I happen to know this because a Brazilian friend of mine explained it to me. Interesting, no?
I don't want some renegade necrophile princess as MY roommate!
actually, it is pretty interesting. I took Spanish for years but I never knew much about the Portuguese language. I always thought it was funny whenever I heard that guy say "piranya". But I guess now that I know this, its not quite as funny. But thank you for clearing it up for me. Learn something new everyday.
http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=9438623
No problem, man. As Bart Simpson said to Lisa once: "Learning is cool!"
I don't want some renegade necrophile princess as MY roommate!
No problem, man. As Bart Simpson said to Lisa once: "Learning is cool!"
And as Marge Simpson once said: "Just look at all this beautiful foilage."
Lisa: "It's not 'foilage', mom - it's foliage. Fo-liage."
Marge: "That's what I said - foilage. It doesn't take a nucular scientist to pronounce 'foilage'."
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And then in the car, on the way home: "And it was nice to see the beautiful fo-li-age. Let's hear it for Lisa, our little walking lie-berry!
I don't want some renegade necrophile princess as MY roommate!
If you study up on some Portuguese, you'll notice how similar it is to Spanish, especially the "nh" and "lh" combinations that sound like the Spanish "ñ" and "ll" (pronounced "e-ye"). Another sound you may become familiar with is the ei diphthong, which sounds like the English long a (as in "hate") sound. Example of a Portuguese name with the ei sound: Oliveira.
sharecool was going to ask if this was a U.S accent thing.
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Our pronunciation is just the Americanized version of the original Portuguese. So basically, yes.
I don't want some renegade necrophile princess as MY roommate!
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