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Author Topic: Sean, Shane, Shawn, Pronunciation Barry Floyd Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1079 From: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 10-19-2003 12:55 AM                        When I worked in the kitchen at a "Hooters" restuarant while in college, I worked in the kitchen with a guy named "Sean".... but he pronounced in "SAY - ON" Never understood it, but SAY-ON it was...  |  IP: Logged Dick Vaughan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1032 From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: Jul 2000 posted 10-19-2003 04:11 AM                        If you worked in Hooters surely there are more important things to think about than how some guy pronounces his name!  |  IP: Logged Gerard S. Cohen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 975 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 10-19-2003 08:10 AM                     "Thief", "unlucky oaf", and "caressing(?)". When I led an AYH bicycle tour up the Rhine (on the tow-paths), I noticed the jugenherberger house-parents corrected my pronunciation of German, each in a slightly different way. Perhaps the regional pronunciation from plattsdeutch to hochdeutch (low to high German) followed geography. My paternal grandmother spoke Yiddish that sounded like high German, since she came from Northern Europe and maintained a Teutonic attitude of superiority, while my maternal grandmother, who grew up on a farm in Romania, spoke a much softer "mamalossen." A problem arises when transliterating a language written in a non-Latin alphabet into English. There are at least two common methods of transcribing Yiddish, as there are of Russian, Japanese and Chinese. Witness "Czar,Tsar"; "Chaikovsky, Tsaikofsky", etc. The YIVO Institute favors one method of transliterating Yiddish, which is written in the Hebrew/Aramaic alphabet, into English, but not all publishers conform to it. I had misgivings in writing "schoen" for "shane", but that is the way it appears in the song title on a CD album with the copyright data, so I conformed. Incidentally, "Shane", "Shandale" (final 'e" pronounced) is both a name and a term of endearment in Yiddish. --schoene madchen=pretty girl (G) --shane madel= pretty girl (Y) Gerard  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 10-19-2003 04:27 PM                        Ganove - crook, thief Schlamassel - bad luck, difficult situation kittchen - jail 2 out of three - not bad! Did you guess or look it up?  |  IP: Logged Gerard S. Cohen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 975 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 10-19-2003 04:42 PM                     Mike-- I knew the first two, though thief is often spelled "gonif." I guessed on the third, thinking it might be something like "kitzel", a tickling, rather than a "clink." Gerard  |  IP: Logged Sean McKinnon Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1712 From: Peabody Massachusetts Registered: Sep 2000 posted 10-20-2003 10:15 PM                        Sean is pronounced the same as Shawn. The only difference between Sean, Shawn, Saun, and Shauwn is that Sean is the only correct way to spell the name.  |  IP: Logged Sean Weitzel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 619 From: Vacaville, CA (1790 miles west of Rockwall) Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-20-2003 11:21 PM                     I've never understood why people would want to pronounce it "seen". I've never met another Sean that preferred it pronounced that way. I am a 'shawn' just like the rest. Add to that my last name, and I think i've had every pronuncation in the book thrown at me (it's White-Sell - or 'Veit-sell' if you want the hard core German.)  |  IP: Logged Sean M. Grimes Expert Film Handler Posts: 247 From: Lunenburg, MA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 10-21-2003 01:08 AM                        When I was younger I would kick folks in the crotch if they every tried to pronounce "Sean" - "Seeaun" and I still do. I just wanted to keep it three Sean's in a row!  |  IP: Logged Rachel Craven Madam Moderator Posts: 2190 From: Pensacola, FL Registered: Dec 2000 posted 10-21-2003 02:05 AM                     Too many Sean's, my heads gonna blow up!  |  IP: Logged Sean McKinnon Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1712 From: Peabody Massachusetts Registered: Sep 2000 posted 10-22-2003 01:17 AM                        I had one friend who used to tell me that I should be "Seen and not heard" or how about "sean sean the leprechaun went to school with nothing on..."  |  IP: Logged Sean M. Grimes Expert Film Handler Posts: 247 From: Lunenburg, MA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 10-22-2003 02:53 AM                        A long long time ago in elementary school I had a "friend" who reused to call me anything but "seeaan grimus (as in the McDonalds ripoff of the Popeye character "Wimpy"...) He was the first one who got the crotch kickin! After my prepubescent days, no one execpt telemarkters has royally tounge-tied it... Thank God. It comes down to if you can not pronounce a persons name, either A- Ask, or B- Use the "Champ, Sport, Guy, Buddy, Lady" bullshit euphimisims.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 10-22-2003 03:01 AM                  I fail to see the humor of kicking anyone in the crotch. That is really stupid. If someone did that to me, they would be looking up the barrel of a 9mm... ummm not film. >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 10-22-2003 05:04 AM                        Excuse me, but I need to know how to pronounce the following names: Phil John Brad Joe Ralph Mary Rachel Samantha Please send your answer's to Sean or Shawn. Thank You  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 10-22-2003 06:57 AM                     Michael -- Are you familiar with the American TV show "Laverne & Shirley" ? What's that they're saying at the beginning? Schlameil, Schlamassel....something-something incorporated.... ???  |  IP: Logged Aaron Sisemore Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day! Posts: 3061 From: Rockwall TX USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 10-22-2003 11:33 AM                     quote: Schlameil, Schlamassel....something-something incorporated.... The word that goes into the 'something-something' area would be "Hasenpfeffer". Hasenpfeffer is a German rabbit dish. -Aaron  |  IP: Logged

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