Reds v Crusaders
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@Stargazer That's shit. He's got a tonne of promise and would've made a difference for the Reds season IMO.
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At least we will not have to suffer the Aussie commentators butchering his name again for the rest of the season ...
Has nobody ever taught them how to pronounce Maori and Polynesian vowels?
It's not Petaya.
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Haha i love listening to Tim Horan butcher them, but butcher them earnestly!
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But that's shit for the Reds, and Aussie rugby in general, which is crying out for something to get excited by. He was their entire marketing and pre-game for the Crusaders fixture.
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@mariner4life said in Reds v Crusaders:
But that's shit for the Reds, and Aussie rugby in general, which is crying out for something to get excited by. He was their entire marketing and pre-game for the Crusaders fixture.
It's a fucking curse, being the "face of".
When Fox Footy was launched waaaaay back, I remember the promo guy being Wayne Carey. Stone time between the photo shoots going to print, and the Foxtel mag coming out, he fucked his mate's missus at a party
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@Stargazer said in Reds v Crusaders:
From the WR Lawbook:
It seems to me, that Mo'unga should have been allowed to stay on the field.
So apprently my mate and the other sideline dude got told they were wrong and thrown over the coals on sunday told they were wrong. Funny they didn't after the game but any who.
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@booboo said in Reds v Crusaders:
At least we will not have to suffer the Aussie commentators butchering his name again for the rest of the season ...
Has nobody ever taught them how to pronounce Maori and Polynesian vowels?
It's not Petaya.
What is it?
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Shouldn't the Saders BP be reinstated? You could argue that 14 players had them at a huge disadvantage, especially when defending their own line, with 15 they could have prevented the Reds try from being scored and Mo'unga could have cleared to touch.
That is crap. Saying sorry makes it all right in a professional comp then?
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@ShadowTrooper Not sure if the rules provide for a situation like this and make reinstatement of a bonus point possible. After all, that Reds' try was scored. Can they reinstate the bonus point without altering the score?
Just imagine that this one missed bonus point could become the difference between a home or away QF/SF/Final. Or worse, not reaching the finals at all. Unlikely the way they're going now, but not impossible.
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@Bones said in Reds v Crusaders:
@booboo said in Reds v Crusaders:
At least we will not have to suffer the Aussie commentators butchering his name again for the rest of the season ...
Has nobody ever taught them how to pronounce Maori and Polynesian vowels?
It's not Petaya.
What is it?
Excuse me for being the condescending white guy trying to pronounce Maori correctly but ...
... short vowel sounds
... pronounce them all
... closer to "Peh-TYE-ah" (Peh-tah-ee-ah would I expect be a close phonetic approximation I expecr).Having said that he may have "australised" (new word I'm going to trademark, a bit like "anglicised") his name, like Manus Labuschagne (Aus cricketer who now pronounces it Labu-shane rather than Labu-skag-nee because Australia), and may now prefer Pet-TAY-ah.
There was a girl at Ms Boo Jr's school, a couple of years ahead of her, with last nane Petaia. Teachers always pronounced it Pet-TAY-ah.
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@Bones said in Reds v Crusaders:
@booboo he's Samoan though right? How is Taiaha pronounced?
Is he? (Does that change the vowel sounds?)
Spearish clubby blade weapony thing.
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So yes. Samoan. Sorry Jordan.
So it is possible I am being the condescending white guy. If the a is a long vowel (with macron or fa'amamafa) then Pet-TAYA.
Apologies to Jordan and Strayan comms if that is the case.
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@Bones said in Reds v Crusaders:
@booboo I'd say yes he is and I wouldn't be surprised if that changes pronunciation.
The vowels sounds would likely stay the same but the emphasis on the vowels would change. In Maori we adopted an 'english' pronunciation where we put emphasis on the first vowel, while the PI's still put emphasis on the second (according to my linguist mate).
We'd put emphasis on the Petaia whereas the PI's put emphasis on the Petaia.
