Back when they pronounced it right. Or was it wrong?
We need that Qatari money to Qatar to these recruitsā
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Iām literally looking at the word going ācutterā or ākah-tarā? Heck if I know
Apparently, education city is around since late 90s, and vcu has a thing there. Maybe I remember us talking to them about it. Or maybe it fell through.
In any event, yes, letās try to dig up the lawn and see if thereās lithium deposits under it. Just spitballing
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I assume weāre 100% out of the Ament running barring a miracle run from the Sanchize
Apparently the answer is to make a sequence of sounds that are hard to do well unless you grew up speaking Arabic:
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This one came up for me today at work: are Turkey and TĆ¼rkiye pronounced the same?
Iām gonna go with ānoā based on this answer that has a charming detour into the origin of the name of the bird:
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On a different timeline, we are competing to come up with ridiculous nicknames for this guyā¦
@AdventiveQuasar i think the answer is tur-key-yeh (basically) but I think most people are just saying Turkey still?
Also, the bird thing is fascinating. I love anecdotes like that
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You should hunt for rhodium bro. Thats the real sit.
Oh snap. Andrews new nickname!
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I give up, who has the Qatar money
Northwestern
Tongue in cheek, I think, but I did see a stray unsourced TikTok video that alleged that A&M has Qatari funding for NIL. There are some articles worrying about A&Mās Qatar campus being a vehicle for obtaining info on nukes (?).
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Doha is freaking awesome if youāve ever been there. Stay at the Marriott across from the airport.
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Noā¦ Turkey decided a few years ago to be offended if you didnāt pronounce it the Turkish wayā¦ I know as I had 3 teammates on my German soccer team.
Fortunately the way to pronounce it in Turkish is the same way you pronounce it in Germanā¦ itās pronounced Toor-KAI
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Last time I was thereā¦ they told me both are correctā¦ but there is a gutteral part that we miss either way.
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I like pronouncing all foreign countries the way brasilians do. So it is turquia
Also brasilians are always terrible at these things so it is funny
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Big āthis Taiwanese person took an Americanized nickname to save all you gringos the hassleā energy
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Iām almost certain the Turkish pronunciation is Toor-key-eh. What you wrote out is the German pronunciation. Could you have been playing with German-Turks whoāve adopted that pronunciation though?
Source: Lived in both Turkey and Germany for two years a piece.
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Totally possibleā¦ they told us it was legit how we pronounced it. They may have just been saying that to keep the peace.
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Nate Oats villain origin story - was at Wisconsin. Tony was responsible for hiring the grad assistants, when his dad was coach. Nate got turned down. The rest is history (but letās have Soddie put it on the chalkboard just in case)
(All per Tate Fraziers podcast)
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