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Discussion in 'Spurscommunity Front Page News' started by StanSpur, Dec 12, 2006.

  • by StanSpur, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:22 AM

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    <TABLE class=WhiteBg cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD colSpan=3><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>[IMG]</TD><TD>[IMG]</TD></TR><TR><TD class=DarkBlueBg colSpan=2>[IMG]</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD style="PADDING-TOP: 10px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #8ca5c6" width=189>Live UEFA Cup FootballTottenham Hotspur v Dinamo Bucharest
    19:00 - 22:00 Thursday, 14 December


    </TD><TD class=DarkBlueBg width=4>[IMG] [IMG] </TD><TD vAlign=top width=382>Tottenham Hotspur v Dinamo Bucharest (Kick-off 7.45pm). Coverage of the final Group B match at White Hart Lane, where Martin Jol will expect another home victory as Spurs look to move into the knockout stages on a high. Spurs began with two victories against Besiktas and Club Brugge to give themselves the best chance of finishing in the top three in the group, and Jol will look to the likes of Robbie Keane and Mido to get the all-important goals here</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

    "Jol will look to the likes of Robbie Keane and Mido to get the all-important goals here" - uuuurgh No! Oh and didn't we play a German team?!? Good old ITV always reliable and incompetent!

    Just thought I'd get this out there as we'll surely be asking where it is over the next couple of days, there were still tickets available when I last looked as well (that way you wouldn't have to listen to David Pleat and his Shimbomba!).

    Let's finish top and avoid the CL drop-outs. Good news is we can't get any English teams in the next round so we won't have to play away at Newcastle or Blackburn!!

    COYS
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Discussion in 'Spurscommunity Front Page News' started by StanSpur, Dec 12, 2006.

  1. NeverRed06
    the last times we were on itv 4 against club bruge and slavia prague they did a good pre match programme on our some of our youngsters and looked at our training and our facilities including the medical facilities, they had a little about tomas pekhart and also the connections with radek cerny and jonathon blondel
    NeverRed06, Dec 12, 2006
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  2. davidmatzdorf
    Its worth pointing out that Pascal Chimbonda is French. If you pronounce his surname the way a French person would, it comes out rather like "Sham-bong-DA".

    Which suggests that Mr Malaprop is at least as close, perhaps closer than most English people...more by accident than by design, I'm sure.
    davidmatzdorf, Dec 12, 2006
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  3. Cyril
    Oooh, hark at you!
    Cyril, Dec 12, 2006
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  4. Stav
    Not really. I think the vast majority of us here knew that.

    I thought one of the traits of the French language was that in most cases all syllables are stressed pretty much equally? I see no reason to stress the last syllable in Pascal's surname.

    And although it is but one example, this clip of some French speakers saying 'Chimbonda' seems to also suggest that the first vowel sound is much closer to 'i' than your 'a':

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIOhu5G9SWo
    Stav, Dec 13, 2006
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  5. countryboy
    They have been plugging it all week withthe tag line "to do is to Dare" ???
    countryboy, Dec 13, 2006
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  6. davidmatzdorf
    Dry irony.

    Not the way I was taught it. Nearly every word in French is stressed on the final syllable, quite strongly so in most regions. It's a peculiarity of British television newsreaders and sports commentators always to reverse this - it seems to be a rule, for some reason - so the President becomes Jack SHEE-rack and the port on the North coast becomes CAL-ay. Which is, err ... wrong.

    "Al-LO?" "Pour-QUOI?" "Mar-SEILLES? "Bor-DEAUX?" I could go on, if I wanted to fetch my sledgehammer.

    That's quite possible - I haven't got a sound card on this PC, so I can't listen to your clip this morning, but the name is African, so it's probably "Sheem" rather than "Sham". But that's why I said "pronounce his surname the way a French person would [mis-pronounce it]". :wink:
    davidmatzdorf, Dec 13, 2006
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  7. Stav
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/lj/pronunciation/thebasics.html

    http://french.about.com/library/pronunciation/bl-rhythm.htm

    These are from the top two results you get when Googling 'French pronunciation', and both support the idea that syllables are stressed equally in French. I haven't bothered to look any further.

    Is Chimbonda an African surname? Do you know what language it has its origins in then? Pascal was born in Guadeloupe I think, which I know is French-speaking, but I'm genuinely interested to know in what language his family name has its origins.
    Stav, Dec 13, 2006
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  8. Stav
    Stav, Dec 13, 2006
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