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"^From dictionary.com Quote : "moz·za·rel·la Pronunciation Key - [mot-suh-rel-luh] –noun a mild, white, semisoft Italian cheese. " That is not how she says it. And it is not pronounced the way she says it. "

yes, have an american dictionary tell you how to pronounce italian words... good job simpleton.

[Edited on January 25, 2008 at 4:07 PM. Reason : 2]

1/25/2008 4:06:56 PM

all those words she's saying exist in the english language as well.

you're a tool for buying into her faux-italian shit.

1/25/2008 4:08:17 PM

^Winner

^^If you are speaking Italian, then by all means, say it the Italian way. If you are speaking English, pronounce it like its supposed to in English.

Stop trying to act all sophisticated. I seriously doubt you pronounce all foreign words like they are said in their native language.

[Edited on January 25, 2008 at 4:12 PM. Reason : .]

1/25/2008 4:10:33 PM

[Edited on January 25, 2008 at 4:11 PM. Reason : dammit]

1/25/2008 4:11:32 PM

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"you're a tool for buying into her faux-italian shit."

nothing wrong with being authentic

1/25/2008 4:12:53 PM

for page two nukkas

1/25/2008 4:13:58 PM

here's a "cheekah teeep"... ingrid sucks

[Edited on January 25, 2008 at 4:16 PM. Reason : ahahaaha.. actually her food looks pretty good]

1/25/2008 4:14:57 PM

she is good in the keeeetchen

1/25/2008 4:15:46 PM

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"ingrid sucks"

Sweet...

1/25/2008 4:16:30 PM

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"If you are speaking Italian, then by all means, say it the Italian way. If you are speaking English, pronounce it like its supposed to in English. "

You obviously don't know many Itlalians foreign people.

1/25/2008 4:16:50 PM

^^^^^They almost airbrushed her face off.

I know plenty, I even know some Italian people. And they don't say many things the way she says them.

[Edited on January 25, 2008 at 4:18 PM. Reason : .]

1/25/2008 4:17:24 PM

all the better to beat to

1/25/2008 4:18:01 PM

Giada has a man jaw

1/25/2008 4:18:24 PM

Well I grew up around NJ/NY Italians and they pronounce things that way, especially when talking about food. It's most likely an Americanized version of Italian with local inflections. They might even say it differently in Chicago, Philly, NY, etc.

1/25/2008 4:20:37 PM

i'll have to say that ingrid AND giada do it for me... does anyone actually watch them? - giada says "mmmmmm" a lot and it's great

rachel - not so much

1/25/2008 4:21:25 PM

having been to italy several times, I think I'll go with their pronounciation over americanized

1/25/2008 4:22:19 PM

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"Well I grew up around NJ/NY Italians and they pronounce things that way, especially when talking about food. It's most likely an Americanized version of Italian with local inflections. They might even say it differently in Chicago, Philly, NY, etc."

Same in my mom's family. My mom was born in this country, but her first language was Italian. Even I say certain words (not just food) with different inflections.

1/25/2008 4:23:25 PM

Rachel Ray

1/25/2008 4:23:52 PM

that's such a tool thing to do it's unbelievable. if you're speaking a language, then speak a language. if it was someone cooking mexican food and they were speaking english except to say 'queso', would you be as into it?

1/25/2008 4:26:09 PM

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"Those pictures don't help your cause. Rachel Ray is in no way hot."

MagnumPI

1. I don't have a "cause"--I simply offered an opinion.

2. I never indicated that Rachel Ray is hot.

3. This is what I actually posted:

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"Rachel Ray > Giada De Laurentiis When Giada turns sideways, she looks like a gremlin."

4. Learn to read and comprehend.

1/25/2008 4:26:26 PM

A lot of Latin Americans will do that. They'll be all normal, but when you ask them where they are from they will say their country with all types of accent and flamboyancy.

1/25/2008 4:28:45 PM

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"that's such a tool thing to do it's unbelievable. if you're speaking a language, then speak a language. if it was someone cooking mexican food and they were speaking english except to say 'queso', would you be as into it?"

I only hate it when people say mexican names in a spastic spanish accent
other than that i'd rather hear the authentic words as much as possible
remember, its italian food, the point is to experience the culture,

1/25/2008 4:30:54 PM

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"flamboyancy"

thats the word i was looking for

1/25/2008 4:31:54 PM

and considering how much Italian cuisine has shaped American cuisine, I'd say it's worth saying it the Italian way

1/25/2008 4:32:36 PM

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"Giada, hands down. "

1/25/2008 4:34:12 PM

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"remember, its italian food, the point is to experience the culture,"

Oh shut up.

[Edited on January 25, 2008 at 4:35 PM. Reason : .]

1/25/2008 4:35:20 PM

no, i will stand up for the oppressed pronuciations

1/25/2008 4:41:55 PM

My Indian friend does it too. Even funnier is when he's speaking in Gujarati (his native tongue) and he throws in American words like street names or business names, it'll sound totally American as if it were dubbed. Pretty hilarious and I always call him on it.

Pretty sure most ESL people do this, and it's not a pompous thing, it's just how they learned the word first. I can see how it would anger you, but if you think about it, it's what makes sense to them.

Isn't that chick's show "Simply delicioso"? I'm sure she doesn't say delicioso like an American would.

1/25/2008 4:46:55 PM

watch an NBA game on espn deportes...they all do that

talk in spanish real fast but say the American names all slow and proper

1/25/2008 4:48:12 PM

Alton Brown is the only person on the Food Network who doesn't annoy the shit out of me.

1/25/2008 4:54:30 PM

i think rachel ray is cute as a mofo

1/25/2008 4:58:38 PM

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"that's such a tool thing to do it's unbelievable. if you're speaking a language, then speak a language. if it was someone cooking mexican food and they were speaking english except to say 'queso', would you be as into it?"

Not the same, because queso has an english translation. If they said quesadilla in a mexican accent I wouldn't have a problem with it.

Mozzarella is a word in both english and italian, so being an italian she says it with an italian accent.

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"Isn't that chick's show "Simply delicioso"?"

everyday italian

[Edited on January 25, 2008 at 5:04 PM. Reason : ]

1/25/2008 5:02:12 PM

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"Alton Brown is the only person on the Food Network who doesn't annoy the shit out of me."

Couldn't agree more.


Bobby Flay might be the worst for me. The guy just comes across as a huge prick.

1/25/2008 5:06:05 PM

Giada's show is like a softcore porn... the light background music, the close ups...

1/25/2008 5:06:21 PM

if rachelray had frugalqualms boobs i'd pick rachel ray

1/25/2008 5:07:33 PM

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"everyday italian"

I was talking about

1/25/2008 5:09:02 PM

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"Bobby Flay might be the worst for me. The guy just comes across as a huge prick. "

yah i get the same vibe from him too

I also wish Sandra Lee would die in a fire... with her "semi-horrible" cooking

[Edited on January 25, 2008 at 5:12 PM. Reason : s]

1/25/2008 5:11:34 PM

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"yah i get the same vibe from him too"

and the food network nerds come out of the woodwork

1/25/2008 5:16:41 PM

^haha for real...i had no idea so many people watched it...i wish more people watched the news

1/25/2008 5:17:32 PM

flay IS a prick. mario batali and alton brown, ftw!

1/25/2008 5:22:12 PM

I like Mario, but his orange shoes he always wears annoy the fuck out of me.

1/25/2008 5:28:55 PM

it's to match his flaming red hair

1/25/2008 5:30:44 PM

Robert Irvine is awesome

1/25/2008 5:34:39 PM

Also, does the woman on barefoot contessa have a single female or heterosexual friend?

1/25/2008 5:44:24 PM

hahahaha

(no she doesn't)

and Sandra Lee is an alcoholic

1/25/2008 5:47:23 PM

rachael ray!!!

tyler florence is awesome too

[Edited on January 25, 2008 at 5:54 PM. Reason : ]

1/25/2008 5:48:20 PM

BTW, concerning the accent thing, it's really a matter of whether to switch from lax alveolar English to tense dental Romance pronunciation and back or not. There is no "right" answer.

From the book Word Court:

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"There is no international standard pronunciation for names--either personal or geographic ones. (Think of Paris, whose denizens call it 'ParhEE'; think of Mexico, whose citizens call it 'MAYheeco.')"

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"[The Chinese]. . .I am told by a native speaker of Mandarin, tackle Tchaikovsky (one of several possible romanizations of that name, effected according to a common and consistent, if unintuitive, system of transliteration) by rendering it with characters that appear as 'Cai Ke Fu Si Ji' when spelled according to the Pinyin system (itself an unintuitive romanization) and are pronounced something like 'Tsy-kuh-foo-suh-jee.'"

In 1990, there was even an SNL skit about this issue titled "NBC News Employees" (can't find video):

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/90/90enews.phtml

[Edited on January 25, 2008 at 5:54 PM. Reason : .]

1/25/2008 5:49:25 PM

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"Giada, hands down."

for serious. Hef needs to give this woman a call.

1/25/2008 5:52:04 PM

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"Well I grew up around NJ/NY Italians and they pronounce things that way, especially when talking about food. It's most likely an Americanized version of Italian with local inflections. They might even say it differently in Chicago, Philly, NY, etc."

This is the trooth. The Italian dialect you hear in the Tri-State Area is far from the dialects you'd hear in Italy.

1/25/2008 7:28:26 PM

Gforce endorses Giada !!

1/25/2008 7:34:21 PM