From: Joó Ádám (ceriak@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jun 17 2009 - 12:39:59 CDT
> You're wrong about Universal. Try to review Google results - "a Universal"
> returns mostly pages in English, not in Hungarian, so 159 000 pages are
> quite good, but most of them are in English, while 22 000 "az"-es are pure
> Hungarian phrases.
No, they aren’t. I checked the radio button to search only in
Hungarian pages, so these are 159 000 pure English phrases (I randomly
checked result pages too).
> What about article usage, I agree that your arguments are correct for a
> pronunciation-driven usage, but it seems like for foreign abbreviations
> people try to use a spelling-driven one. Try to review UNESCO, UNICEF, UNO,
> Universal, Univision (), University of Florida (5400 az, 99 a), United
> Nations (1050 az, 692 a). Last two aren't even abbreviations, but are pure
> English words.
Indeed, there are a number of people pronuncing English words starting
with a u, pronuncing /u/, because in Hungary a lot of people do not
speak English at all, or speak it very poorly. If they know another
European language which pronunces u as /u/ (e. g. German), this can
also lead them to use it that way. However, such a mixed pronunciation
is completely wrong.
Regards,
Ádám
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