[Sca-cooks] Wine names

[Wanda Pease]

hMMM....  After 16 years in Europe I think I picked up a smattering of a
number of languages.  Of course, wine names weren't my forte'. I was more in
the count to 10, "how much?" "too much!" and where's the bathroom style of
smatterer!

By the way how do you pronounce Rhein-Main, Mosel, Koeln (or do you prefer
the French pronunciation of Cologne)?  Is it Muenchen or Munich?  Are they
German wines or are they Deutch?  Interestingly enough, in my travels,
Pharsi just didn't come into any conversations at all.  Of course, one of
the reasons may have been that every French wine I ever drank tended to give
me a headache from the tannins, or simply didn't suit my palate as well as
the wonderful German Mosel's and Rhein (that's how they spell it) wines.

Regina

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Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Wine names



> Why, particularly, do you think that Americans should be able to pronounce
a
> word they rarely, if ever hear?  If it is not spelled in American English
> the way it is pronounced, why do you think it should be obvious and
required
> to pronounce it as some other language does?


<< is is common knowledge that if you say any american word loud enough and
often enough any of them forginers should be able to understand it. Vice
versa if you have any forgien word on a bottle of wine it must be good
wine:)
I gues the best reasonis that if your going to drink wines that orginate in
different countries you could at least learn enough of the language to
pronunce the name correctly:) Even a small education in forgein languages
permits youto proonounce the name of most things correctly. Or is that
considered a cosmoplotian attitude?

ELric


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