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i think thats utter bollocks, it may be true, but very unlikely,

One he's red headed and two he's a massive Man United fan, there's no way he would have gone for simply blue...

its to do with the colour of the hair and / or his football team - which as anyone knows if they are a major fan of Man United, wouldn't call their band Simply Blue - in a million years....

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i got a good one:
T.A.T.U.

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It's pronounced "hot russian teenage lesbains"

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I think

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in germany we call them Taaatooo, but Jason's idea isn't bad either. except that only one of them is hot.

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T.A.T.U

Tits Ass Trouser Upheaval

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or even, "Shit Music"
well, thats how i pronounce it..

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What? t.A.T.u are great.

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Yeah, it's "Tah-too."

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sufjan stevens

i always pronounced it "suf-jan" kinda like.... um... "stuff" & "pan."
heard it pronounced on a public radio interview as "saf-yen" and from wikipedia they say its "soof-yon"

i like my version the best.

there is also -

Apoptygma Bezerk
Osymyso
Royksopp
Thelonious Monk (though at this point, i think we all probably pronounce it the same.)

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How do you guys pronounce "Rowla"?

I always pronounce it row... as in rowing a boat, but others of my friends pronounce it row... as in argument.

Dunno which is correct. :confused:

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where's the difference?

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royksopp

Roik Sopp

how about.....

Sven Vath

is it:

vaff

or

vaith

or somit else?

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I would say Sven Veht, with a kind of shallow "e" sound as is "get" and a hard t at the end, cos most european languages don't have the th sound.

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it's Väth, so pronounce it like an ä, dammit! :D

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i thought Ian speaks norwegian, so he should be able to tell us how to pronounce 'Röyksopp"

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and an ä sounds like what, if it is not the e sound in get?

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hard to explain in english, since you don't have that native sound, and therefore no words with it.

it's like the 'e' in get, but longer and you need to open the mouth more

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something like this:

http://www.personal.uni-jena.de/~x1s...e/IPA/cv03.wav

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ha ha, i soo get what you mean, eik ;)
although i have to say, that one/we (swiss) sometimes pronounce it a bit like the 'a' in "about"...



question from me: in another thread (and i also stumbed across it a few other times) there was a band mentioned called "abfahrt hinwil". how do you guys pronounce that?

as an explanation for my curiosity: "hinwil" is a town in switzerland, and "abfahrt" - which is obviously a german word as well - has various meanings in english: departure/descent/ski-run. so I know how to pronounce it in german, but how did the band intend it to be?

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yeah, i had the same problem, but it's definitely soof-yon, i heard him say it myself :)

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indeed so! at last it comes in useful!!! :D

ö (or ø as it appears in norwegian - ö is the swedish equivalent - danes use ø) - it's pronounced more like 'ir' in dirty - but without any hint of an 'r'.

however:

'y' in norwegian is also classed as a vowel, almost like saying 'eeyuh' very quickly - it's all about your tongue really - it should be touching your back teeth on both sides of your mouth, with your lips fairly rounded

so røyksopp suddenly sounds far more complicated than it actually is...:)

it means 'smokemushroom' - make of that whåt you will...