Re: [CR]Re: Alex Singer, correction pronounciation

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From: "ternst" <ternst1@cox.net>
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Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Alex Singer, correction pronounciation
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:00:47 -0700
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I love it!
It must be all in the tongue action!
Ted Ernst
Palos Verdes Estates
CA USA


----- Original Message -----
From: Harvey Sachs
To: lowiemanuel@yahoo.ca


<classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 5:48 PM Subject: [CR]Re: Alex Singer, correction pronounciation


> Emanuel Lowi wrote:
>
> The rule with Germanic type names in France is that they retain their
> Germanic pronunciation.
>
> This is the case with most of the names of Champagne producers (almost all
> of German origin). Bollinger is not Bo-lawn-jay. It is Bo-ling-ger. Same
> with Heidsieck, Roederer, Mumm, Krug, etc. Ditto for all those Alsatian
> winemakers. They may be citizens of France, but their names retain the
> original pronunciation.
>
> The French are sensible about such matters. Paris has a Boulevard
> Hausmann.
>
> No doubt about it, Alex Singer was no Frenchman. His name says it all. I
> imagine he was a Hungarian Jew, actually. Don't Francisise his name in an
> attempt to sound sophisticated. It is Sing-ger, not San-jay.
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> I've not traveled in France, and speak no French, but I think that Mssr.
> Lowi stretches in his generalization. My mother's friends in Frankfurt
> (Germany) were Lustigers, with the German pronounciation. First Cousin
> Jean-Marie, the late Cardinal of Paris (and a wonderful, brilliant,
> conversationalist) was always refered to as "Lustijea(r)" with a French
> pronounciation as an adult.
>
> But, the proof of the pudding comes, as it must, from an old Texas joke.
> Q: You know how to tell a Real Texan?
> A: He knows how to prounounce "Schlumberger" (as Schlumberjea).
>
> The firm, founded by a geophysicist from Alsace-Lorraine, became one of
> the foremost in the field of oil-well instrumentation.
>
> harvey sachs, returning you now to our regularly scheduled diet
> mcLean va usa.