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Well rednecks from TN like always pronounced it shown!! We cant even speak english and the talk here about German just goes over my simple head! :grin:
How to pronounce Schön
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That sounds like a double kiss at the end.
This is silly. You pronounce it the way everyone would recognize it. We speak US english here and Schon is a US cue-making company. I had a friend who sat at a diner and asked for a gyro, pronounced yearoh, and the waiter didn't know wtf he was talking about.
Why does a US cuemaker choose such a difficult foreign word as company name?
It's like if I make a cue brand now and I call it "Fire stone" here in Spain people would pronounce it "feere estowne" would you guys adapt and start calling it like that or stick to "fire stone"?:embarrassed2:
It's like if I make a cue brand now and I call it "Fire stone" here in Spain people would pronounce it "feere estowne" would you guys adapt and start calling it like that or stick to "fire stone"?:embarrassed2:
There is no one answer. Maybe he saw the name on a wall and like it's "look". Maybe it's a family name, however I know and I'm sure many people know of families who have americanized the pronunciation of their surnames. It is not uncommon.
However you missed on the analogy. If I were in Spain, I'd call it Firestone because I'm from the USA. I don't live in Spain so if no one understands me, tough on me. If I plan to spend lots of time in Spain then I'll pronounce it as you pronounce it so everyone understands me. But as a spanish company you call it as you like.
It's not complicated. The whole idea is to communicate. If no one understands you pronouncing it the correct way, then don't.:smile::smile:
I agree:grin: feels strange though
Schön pronouncing ? please go to #12 by Niklas in this thread
Here's a weird thing that you see in heavily populated hispanic areas in the states. In LA, et al, you sometimes have your american newscasters with hispanic parentage. They read off the news blah blah blah like normal, and when they come to a hispanic word they do the correct pronunciation, and it comes of sounding just too weird in the whole context of their news delivery.
SNL did a funny parody of that.
Good evening, I'm Laura Dihaazzzzzzz with the news, LOL!!!
My wife and I always get a kick out of it. It comes of pretentious somehow even though they are Hispanic.
I would assume he got it from copying Joss. He wanted a word that sounded good and had meaning in a another language. Schon means something like "Beautiful".
This is from Billy Stroud
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" Joss came from a book I was reading when I started Joss Cues. The book is Tai-Pan by James Clavell written in 1966.
On about page three it says, “Joss was a Chinese word that meant Luck and Fate and God and the Devil combined”
As I read the book I realized that a person is in charge of their “Joss” good or bad, Fate and Luck good or bad. It sounded like a perfect word for a pool player.
For those of you that like to read it’s a fun book and I would like to hear what you think of it.".
While we're on pretentious Hispanic names, in Denver Ernie Martinez has made a lot of Schon shafts, so we pronounce it Sho-tee-nez.
With the umlat of course.
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So, do you pronounce it as Show-tee-nez or Shaw-tee-nez?
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The Chinese in Macau borrowed the word joss from the Portuguese.
Their word was Deos...which is pronounced somewhat like 'joss'.
I have a 68 Joss that hits divine...this could explain it.
I've played pool all over Tennessee...so it must have rubbed off....
'cause that's how I pronounce it...'SHOWN'
..incidentally, I was in Louisville, KY and asked a couple locals if you
pronounced the capital of Kentucky 'LOUIE ville' or 'LEWIS ville'....
...they argued about it for a while and then I told them they were both
wrong...it's pronounced 'FRANKFORT'....
..might be the biggest laugh I ever got from anyone at a tournament.:smile:
///end of thread///
lol
Or I hear alot of people say Shawwwn , I sold Leonard aka Pool Cue Master a real nice Shawwwn once .I was walking around the pool room showing it to a few people and this big ol sweaty guy kept wanting to see it and he would shoot a few shots with it and breathe real heavy and say "that's one sweet shawwwn ! " of course I was trying to make a sale and get some travel $$ but it was a bit uncomfy , and yet comical at the same time.In the end Leonard bought my old shawwwn and has been trying to sell it back to me ever since.
Or I hear alot of people say Shawwwn , I sold Leonard aka Pool Cue Master a real nice Shawwwn once .I was walking around the pool room showing it to a few people and this big ol sweaty guy kept wanting to see it and he would shoot a few shots with it and breathe real heavy and say "that's one sweet shawwwn ! " of course I was trying to make a sale and get some travel $$ but it was a bit uncomfy , and yet comical at the same time.In the end Leonard bought my old shawwwn and has been trying to sell it back to me ever since.
So, do you pronounce it as Show-tee-nez or Shaw-tee-nez?
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The Hispanic pronunciation is definitely Show-tee-nez, not Shaw-tee-nez.
Or Sho-tee-nez, whichever you prefer
For crazy pronunciations just come to Massachusetts where they make up their own way to say all the city names...
Gloucester is pronounced sort of like glawsta
Worcester is pronounced sort of like wussta
Peabody is pronounced peabiddy where you say the "pea" part as quickly as you possible can...
A town named Billerica is pronounced billricka
For fun I make my own pronunciations just to annoy people. I live in Somerville which I call Smervul...
Gloucester is pronounced sort of like glawsta
Worcester is pronounced sort of like wussta
Peabody is pronounced peabiddy where you say the "pea" part as quickly as you possible can...
A town named Billerica is pronounced billricka
For fun I make my own pronunciations just to annoy people. I live in Somerville which I call Smervul...
Im from deep in Tx and most people here pronounce it shawn. Please dont lump us in with hillbilly lol.
I dont really think theres a wrong way to say it. But ill always say it as shawn. Ive always felt people who have to pronounce words "correctly" come across as pretentious. I see it alot with spanish being this deep in texas. If the cuemaker says it like shawn then that should be good enough.
Texas is very big. Please confirm that throughout Texas, Shawn is pronounced a half dozen different ways. This would validate what I'm saying, though it's already validated.
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