10 daysAunt Tanya’s lasagna?
Uncle Scotty’s manicotti?
Grandma Betty’s orecchiette?
Uncle
ScottyMe-y’s manicottithank you for seeing me. not uncle scotty. definitely me
- 11 days
Aww jeez, mama’s Mac & Cheese all over his knees… no, no, no that doesn’t sound right.
- 11 days
I am quite curious how Americans pronounce Gnocchi. I hope it’s horribly wrong.
- 10 days
You’re right about the g, but the second part is more like ck (as in knocky), not tschi like cappuccino but ck like cacca. I’m not English nor Italian so ‘tsch’ and ‘ck’ might not be the best letters to describe the sounds.
- 10 days
sorry i was pulling your leg. where i live people some people call them “knotschi”, instead of ([ˈɲɔkki]).
wikitionary has pronunciation examples: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gnocchi
- wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
I am a heathen, so usually NO-Key, but in culinary circles people who want to nod in the general direction of proper Italian will say something closer to knee-YO-key. Mid-word vowel sounds in American English (all English?) can be extremely variable, though
If you want a proper IPA transcription, this video seems about right.
- 10 days
Any hope for it being anything close to the original is a lost cause at this point.
dammit i gotta finish reading the comment before i jump in with a hiyaaaaa of my own
I like to think that Shady is what he calls himself in his head, and Marshall is merely the persona he affects in his day-to-day. Like Batman.
- 10 days
It’s a picture of the rapper Eminem writing the lyrics for the song “lose yourself”.
The lyrics has the words “mom’s spaghetti”. His real name is Marshall.
