British commentator: >Oh and it's a goal! Ngubu with the equaliser. A brilliant strike by the Frenchman, and Norf FC are level!
American commentator: >He shoots… he scores! What a shot by… er, Nuhguhbbu. And Norf and Souf are tied at 1 apiece. I tell ya all of a sudden this game has gotten real interesting.
comentador de Latinoamerica: GOOOOOLLLL! GOOOOOLLLL DEL NORTE! GOOOOOLLLL DE NGUBU! MADRE DE DIOS! NORTE 1, SUR 1! QUE INCREIBLE…. GOOOOLLLLLAAAAAAASSSSSSOOOOO!
>british commentators >saying a foreign name correctly pick one
Joshua Adams
They go to amazing lengths to pronounce some names but butcher the others, it's bizarre. Like, they were tripping over each other to say "Caththththooooola" for Santi Cazorla. But they never say Barthelona even though they should
David Diaz
>american commentator >no "this goal brought to you by [insert sponsor here]"
Lincoln Peterson
Where were you when you realized that all three styles are equally kino?
no instance of this ever, of course, but a very clever commentary on current events! have you learned this in school? if so, let me applaud a quite good student of received ideas!
in all seriousness, your mother gets breast cancer this year. a deserved prize for bearing a stupid son
Oliver Cox
t. brainlet
Oliver Richardson
The problem is if you establish a pronunciation first, then try to change it. So if someone like Michael Owen is commentating and Papasthathopoulos is playing, then there's no chance, and the other commentators just try to be consistent. Cazorla is one that bugged me though, because they were so inconsistent, half attempting the ethethetheth, some not bothering, and some even going with "Carzola".
But city names will never be pronounced the same as their native language. Those (wrong) pronunciations have been established for centuries, like München/Munich; there's no changing them, "Barcelona" with that pronunciation is effectively an English word.
Jason Ward
>this post brought to you by Hoosier Hill salt, the saltiest in all of America
Joshua Ortiz
Why should they? Foreigners don't give a fuck about pronouncing English names correctly.