Lucky they put the accent on the ‘ó’

Lucky they put the accent on the ‘ó’

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norman lebrecht

January 14, 2014

colon ring

Imagine how it would have been pronounced otherwise.

Comments

  • Eleanor says:

    ó no!

  • It might have been quite apt, considering the whiff of sulphur which accompanied its difficult conception…

  • David Boxwell says:

    If you make the mistake of watching the train-wreck known as “The Colon Ring,” your telephone will ring, and you _will_ die!

  • Dave K says:

    It would have been pronounced like Collon.

  • FRANCIS SCHWARTZ says:

    Frequently English-language publications lack the enye or tilde for the letter n,e.g. ñ. When writing about Cien Años de Soledad ( One Hundred Years of Solitude) by Gabriel García Márquez, we often see the word ANOS with out the tilde,Ñ. Which would be an anatomical reference worthy of a congress of proctologists: ONE HUNDRED ANUSES.

    • John Nemaric says:

      A slightly more “correct” translation will be ONE HUNDRED SOLITARY ANUSES. It sounds gross but…there it is language for you. The solution: do not translate anything and become a polyglot (it also sounds kind of gross.)

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