No, but I bet I field the same amount of stupid questions as your average RMV employee.
Seriously, how do you pronounce his name?! Foo-koo-doe-may? And really they couldn't pronounce Mat-sue-she-ta? They could, but they'd be wrong. While it's probably most common for Western names to stress the next-to-last syllable (MI-chael, Mc-DON-ald, etc.), in Japan it's pretty common for the next-to-next-to-last syllable to be stressed (SA-chi-ko). To make matters of pronunciation even more confusing, the next-to-last syllable is often so de-emphasized that it is almost not pronounced (or at least not the vowel part). Hence, a Westerner would tend to pronounce Matsushita as "mat-soo-SHEE-ta", but the correct pronunciation is closer to "mat-SOOSH-ta". That's how we ended up with Daisuke Matsuzaka's first name originally being commonly mispronounced as "dai-SOO-kee" and then getting its spelling butchered into the (reasonably) phonetically close but utterly dumb-gaijin spelling of "Dice-K".
so Fuck You Dome, then?
Well, as long as you think "Dice-Kay" sounds about right, "Fuck You Dome" can't be too far off, can it?
I'd go with FOO-koo-doe-may. Ichiban!
You'd think that Joey Buttafuoco would have an opinion on this wouldn't you?...
Sounds like a place in Thailand that charges $6 cover.
Well, as long as you think "Dice-Kay" sounds about right, "Fuck You Dome" can't be too far off, can it? You're asking a girl who fully understands the Boston accent and the Maine accent what sounds right.
You're asking a girl who fully understands the Boston accent and the Maine accent what sounds right. HAHA!:) It always bugs me the way guys with long names get their names butchered when they go to America. Allesandro Zanardi became Alex. Juan-Pablo Montoya has been called "Johnny Mo"... Then there's the "Dice Kay" thing. (Which just makes me think of Andrew Dice Clay.) Are American commentators really that lazy? Anytime someone has a remotely complicated name they mong it up. Of course a friend and I have christened Fernando Alonso "Fred" just to make fun of this pattern of idiocy.
I read it, and think he must be really selfish in bed. Of course, I'm so selfish in bed I turn my Trojans inside out so they're ribbed for my pleasure.
well, he's a Cub. imagine if Harry Caray was still around.
Juan-Pablo Montoya has been called "Johnny Mo"... Then there's the "Dice Kay" thing I've never heard Montoya referred to by anything other than his full name. And "Dice K" is how Daisuke is pronounced. Besides, if you'd ever seen the man on the street interviews after the Bruins signed Dimitri Kvartolnov back in the 90s, you'd know why we get a phonetic spelling around here.
And "Dice K" is how Daisuke is pronounced. Well...sort of. Like a lot of languages, Japanese has a much more distinct vowel pronunciation than American English, so the "dai" doesn't have the "diiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeyyy" pronunciation that you tend to get with American English, and the "ke" is not "kayyyyyy" either.
If you take the word "daisy",cut out the "sy"then you would pronounce Daisuke,"Day-Soo-kee.So "Fukudome"would be pronounced "Fuck-you-dome"Definetly something to have a little fun with for sure without any disrespect to ones name.I know that in Japanese,thats not how it's pronounced.Although now I'm curious as to how it is.
Well...sort of. Like a lot of languages, Japanese has a much more distinct vowel pronunciation than American English, so the "dai" doesn't have the "diiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeyyy" pronunciation that you tend to get with American English, and the "ke" is not "kayyyyyy" either. Close enough for government work. The point is where the emphasis goes, which was news to me when he got signed.
It stands to reason that even if this guy can hardly swing a bat, he is worth having on the team solely on jersey sales.
