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Moe Egan

I love having a few clients in Amman. I hate the fact that there's always a peppering of words I have NO clue how to pronounce. I'm doing a MOH for a hotel, Any suggestions on the following?

Aleppo: I know it's a region and a kind of restaurant
Mezzas: A desserty thingy
Al Halaby: name of the Aleppo restaurant offering the mezzas.

Thanks!
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Diane Maggipinto · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:26 am Post subject:

well, at first i was going to say "jore-DANE-ee-inn" but now i see what you want.

so i'll guess:

al-E Hobo Tounge

-oh
METT-zahs
al_HOLL-uh-bee
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mcm · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:38 am Post subject:

I don't know how to pronounce 'em but Aleppo is still in my brain umpteen years after memorising it from Macbeth in 7th grade:

Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger
But in a sieve I'll thither sail
And like a rat without a tail,
I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do......

and I pronounced it like Diane said.

It sure is goofy what sticks around in the grey matter.

Moe Egan · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:55 am Post subject:

You gals rock! Thanks.

Mary - the Shakespeare that's stuck in my head forever is Polonius' advice to Laertes .
...Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all, to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man. .
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mcm · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:22 am Post subject:

Moe, I love that speech. The elder of my two brothers always used to recite it to me whenever I went away for an overnight trip.

Families. Ya know?

Good luck with yer MOH speeches and may your clients come to praise you, not to bury you.

Moe Egan · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:26 am Post subject:

as a friend of mine in college used to say ...and you, ya brute?
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Moe Egan · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:43 am Post subject:

Diane,
I just got an MP3 from the client - you got 2 outa 3 (and even Meatloaf says that ain't bad).

Aleppo = Ahl-EH -Po
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i want to be the voice in your head.
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indymandy · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:13 am Post subject:

~continuing the mini-threadjack~

We didn't get out of 8th grade Social Studies without reciting from rote memory:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

(I passed.)

And, throughout high school and beyond, the last thing I always heard from my mom was, "I love you. Have fun. Don't be stupid."

Seemed to work pretty well.

~ discontinue mini-threadjack

Lovely day, everyone! Amanda

indymandy · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:19 am Post subject:

On second thought...

Can you recite from rote memory? Or does that only really apply to the written and/or simply 'known'? Certainly, it's easier to say 'recite from memory'. But is 'recite from rote memory' actually wrong? Hmm.

Forgive my brain freeze of the day. Writers, unite and enlighten, please!!

~Amanda

Diane Maggipinto · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:22 am Post subject:

moe--i **think** that's what i said: al-E Hobo Tounge

-oh or ... huh?

you know i like to be right. Ninja

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mcm · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:01 am Post subject:

I admit I've been wondering about the distinction between al-E Hobo Tounge

-oh and Ahl-EH -Po myself...

Diane Maggipinto · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:07 am Post subject:

mary, it's a big day here on the board ... Exclamation

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SoundsGreat-Elaine Singer · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:09 am Post subject:

Cuz it's closer to 'awl' than 'Al'
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Moe Egan · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:10 am Post subject:

To Eh or to E Hobo Tounge

, that is the question!
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Diane Maggipinto · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:53 am Post subject:

Hark, she speaks. I will set down what comes from her, to
satisfy my remembrance the more strongly.
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