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How Does One pronounce "Masi"?
02-23-15, 01:32 PM
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How Does One pronounce "Masi"?
Silly question (But I've always been curious) for a too-cold-and-snowy-to-do-any-work-outside Monday:
How do you pronounce "Masi"?
How do you pronounce "Masi"?
02-23-15, 02:33 PM
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Mahzee
02-23-15, 03:33 PM
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Hmmm... Is it Italian?
Think of it this way.
Does Ma see the deer in the road?
Think of it this way.
Does Ma see the deer in the road?
03-01-15, 10:08 AM
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Thanks, guys!
(Maybe Ma can see the deer in the road, but Stucky probably can't, looking over the tops of his Coke-bottles!
)
D'oh!
O-K...so it's "Mah-Zee"....
Close enough! At least I've stopped pronouncing it like the name of that tribe of diminuitive people in Africa- Masai.
I hear that Mah-zee's are better than Pew-jits!
(Maybe Ma can see the deer in the road, but Stucky probably can't, looking over the tops of his Coke-bottles!
)D'oh!
O-K...so it's "Mah-Zee"....
Close enough! At least I've stopped pronouncing it like the name of that tribe of diminuitive people in Africa- Masai.
I hear that Mah-zee's are better than Pew-jits!
03-01-15, 11:55 AM
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Old Masi .. Italian, then California steel Masi , then and now its Taiwan .. only Masi thing is the Logo.
03-01-15, 07:15 PM
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Thanks, guys!
(Maybe Ma can see the deer in the road, but Stucky probably can't, looking over the tops of his Coke-bottles!)
D'oh!
O-K...so it's "Mah-Zee"....
Close enough! At least I've stopped pronouncing it like the name of that tribe of diminuitive people in Africa- Masai.
I hear that Mah-zee's are better than Pew-jits!
(Maybe Ma can see the deer in the road, but Stucky probably can't, looking over the tops of his Coke-bottles!
)D'oh!
O-K...so it's "Mah-Zee"....
Close enough! At least I've stopped pronouncing it like the name of that tribe of diminuitive people in Africa- Masai.
I hear that Mah-zee's are better than Pew-jits!
1) it's Maasai, and 2) they'r not diminutive but amongst the tallest average height peoples in the world.
And 3), Masi is not two syllables, but one.
03-01-15, 07:18 PM
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Alberto Masi, the original, still makes his eponumous frames in his shop under the Vigorelli velodrome but uses a different font for the name than the under license Masi brand for the N.Am market.
03-01-15, 08:42 PM
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2)Oh....maybe I was thinking of the Pygmies. (Do they make bikes? If so, how do you pronounce that in Eye-talian?)
3)Only if you're Sicilian.
03-01-15, 10:21 PM
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Thinking again, I suppose you're right about the syllables. It's like 'taxi' in English; that's two, too, right, even though we say taxee and not tax-ee?
03-01-15, 10:47 PM
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[*=Except for guidos- who speak almost entirely in monosyllabic words]
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03-03-15, 07:26 PM
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I lived in Italy for more than twenty years and teach an Italian course at a local university. A lot of students have trouble with double consonants, but it is a sound that we have in English too, just not in the middle of a word. Think of how you pronounce the p's in "stop playing" compared to the p in hoping, or the k sound in "bookcase" compared to "looking." All consonants work the same way: "same mother," "lone Nancy." (Troppo, bocca, dimmi, anno)
