Comment on Anon reads Don Quixote
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
For me, the problem with “Rocinante” is I don’t know how to pronounce it. So, while reading, I’d skip past it, recognizing that it’s the horse, but not parsing it as a word.
If asked that question, I’d need to explain that, but I’d stumble over the word.
If a book has too many oddly (to me) spelled names, I’ll skip it for this reason. Apostrophes in the middle and no vowels, and I’m not going to read your book.
For me, the problem with “Rocinante” is I don’t know how to pronounce it.
If you’re using a European language, you’re pronouncing it correctly, or close enough.
If your only contact with English is the written word, I guess it depends on what languages you’re familiar with.
Spanish is incredibly easy to pronounce though? There are only a couple things different than English and none of those differences are relevant for Rocinante. It’s also consistent in pronunciation, unlike English.
what’s it like being a stubborn dumbass?
baahb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Ro Cin An Te
Roh sin ahn the
Rocinante
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Why would you make it a ‘th’ at the end??
baahb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Autocorrect is a motherfucker
Moxie_empathizer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Barthelona.
NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
The weird ‘th’ handling of ‘c’ isn’t just a Catalan thing? Is that all of Spain? I know I’m biased as a North American, but preference for Mexican Spanish.
sanzky@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
that is why the Barthelona thing is so pedantic. In Catalan is pronounced more like “barsalona”
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
The th pronunciation is Spanish.
In Catalan c before e or i is pronounced like a hard s.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s the Spaniard pronunciation. Virtually everyone else would pronounce it as “see”.
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I have no idea about ‘c’ becoming ‘th’. I was referring to the ‘t’ at the end that the above comment made ‘the’ when breaking it down, which they have mentioned in a reply was an auto-correct error.
The Spanish I know is not generally NA influenced.
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Thin, not sin.
Ro as in rod. Thin as in, well, thin. An as in ant. Te as in tent.
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
So you are saying it’s
raa - thin - an - teh??That’s wild… I’m convinced you are not pronouncing ‘ant’ or ‘tent’ “correctly” for those to be your suggestions…
Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They’re right, afaik. An as in land, te as in test.
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Hm… Ro as in Ross…? The rest is the correct pronunciation, yes.
And I don’t know… an as in anvil and te as in tenant…? English, being several unrelated languages in a trenchcoat, can be a bit weird, and pronunciation varies excessively with dialects…
The vowels in Castilian (aka Spanish outside of Spain and other Castilian speaking countries) are very simple, five vowels, five sounds, pronounced more or less as they would have been in Latin.
C is pronounced like a k or a hard z, never as an s (except in some dialects).
Rocinante. From rocín and antes, for he was a rocín (old horse) before being Quijote’s steed (also during, but the old man wasn’t all there).
olafurp@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Latin American Spanish might disagree so both sin and thin pass. Book came out before the languages split after all.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
it’s not hard, they are just american.
baahb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I mean, me too…