| Re: Customer had a problem with our service
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:15:38 GMT in rec.bicycles.misc, Stephen
Harding <smharding16@msn.com> wrote:
> Fifteen years ago, buying my Trek 520 at the LBS, the owner (whom
> I grew to really detest), kept referring to the bike panniers as
> "panneeyeas" a la French pronunciation.
>
> Now I can't tell you if the French (who put their stamp on bicycle
> touring as no other nationality has) pronounce "bike bags" in that
> manner or not, but in the USA, I've always heard them referred to
> as "panneeyers".
>
> Perhaps that's the barbaric American gutting of a perfectly good
> French term, but that's how they pronounce it in these parts
well, they're ignorant. as a francophone, i think that anyone
who think's it's "arrogant" to pronounce foreign language words
correctly (i also correctly pronounce spanish, german, and
italian, even though i don't speak them, because i used to be a
classical music announcer) is full of false pride in their
ignorance and stupidity, which means that they're arrogant about
knowing nothing.
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