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Dånooky:

--- Quote from: apskip on November 16, 2009, 10:13:48 AM ---
--- Quote from: Dån (cdfe88) on November 15, 2009, 09:01:27 PM ---
--- Quote from: apskip on November 15, 2009, 08:26:35 PM ---
--- Quote from: mswood on November 15, 2009, 07:28:17 PM ---Phil: They must find this sauna bus (called SOUNA, apparently), strip and take a 5 min. sauna with a group of locals. They can then re-dress and resume the Race.

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mswood, I believe the pronunciation was actually sow-oo-na, which I think either Gary or Matt referred to as Finnish. I am going to suggest that since the Estonian language is close to Finnish the pronuciation of each vowel as a single syllable is the way they do it too.


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It's actually the way "sauna" is pronounced in almost any European language other than English

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cdfe88, since puddin is obviously wrong about who cares, I will add a little extra personal knowledge to the situation. I sing in French (and am also reasonably fluent in speaking it), German, Italian and Russian from time to time (all 4 for a concert in 5 weeks). None of those languages except Russian meets your statement about how other European languages pronounce vowels.

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Well, I'll add some personal knowledge as well. I personally know people from Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain, Finland, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland and Belgium and they all pronounce "sauna" in the way I described. And I'm reasonably fluent in German and it has the same way of pronouncing "au".

TARAsia Fan:

--- Quote from: apskip on November 16, 2009, 10:13:48 AM ---
--- Quote from: Dån (cdfe88) on November 15, 2009, 09:01:27 PM ---
--- Quote from: apskip on November 15, 2009, 08:26:35 PM ---
--- Quote from: mswood on November 15, 2009, 07:28:17 PM ---Phil: They must find this sauna bus (called SOUNA, apparently), strip and take a 5 min. sauna with a group of locals. They can then re-dress and resume the Race.

--- End quote ---
mswood, I believe the pronunciation was actually sow-oo-na, which I think either Gary or Matt referred to as Finnish. I am going to suggest that since the Estonian language is close to Finnish the pronuciation of each vowel as a single syllable is the way they do it too.


--- End quote ---
It's actually the way "sauna" is pronounced in almost any European language other than English

--- End quote ---

cdfe88, since puddin is obviously wrong about who cares, I will add a little extra personal knowledge to the situation. I sing in French (and am also reasonably fluent in speaking it), German, Italian and Russian from time to time (all 4 for a concert in 5 weeks). None of those languages except Russian meets your statement about how other European languages pronounce vowels.
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No she's right. We don't care.

michael:
apskip, remove the stick bud.

apskip:
Michael,

I have no idea what you are talking about, possibly because you may have misspelled shtick. If you really mean stick then please tell me what you mean.

michael:
I mean the stick out of your .....

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