"Photography", who says it best?

[Dinesh]

This is about the most pointless thread I've ever seen on this forum in all the 8 years Iv'e been a member.

Look up any and all posts by Cliveh!

 

[cliveh]

Look up any and all posts by Cliveh!

Thanks for those kind words.

 

[Dinesh]

Thanks for those kind words.

My pleasure.

 

[Patrick Robert James]

Because someone needs to point out how puerile it is.

Anyone else see the irony?

What is with all the grumpy people on forums these days? When I was young the expression "Get a life!" was popular. Maybe it should be brought back.

 

[Bill Burk]

Until jnanian provided the link to the recording I was having trouble imagining the sound of my favorite photographers saying "Photography", for I have read speeches before but don't hear too many of them...

I, for one, am going to be kicking back in front of the radio tonight listening to this recording.

We need to get out and do talks like these. We need to write more like this. And yes, we need to go out and take some more photographs which themselves are more compelling than the actual experience we witness.

Now to connect the audio out to the radio transmitter...

 

[winger]

brassaï is pronounced like " braaws ay ee " the two dots over the the ï ( tréma ) makes it so you pronounce both vowels separately
laszlo moholy nagy is pronounced in hungarian like "mo-hoy-neug"

moholy nagy is the godfather of modern graphic design and plastics work,
he did much more than make bauhaus perspective, and type+graphics-photographs and invent photograms ( simultaneously with manray ).

thanks shawn

- john

OK, I'm sticking to typing them. Neither is anything like how I was guessing.

I caught about 2 minutes of the Today show the other day and they were giving some highlights from some recent study of regional pronunciations of words like caramel. The maps for each word were different, too. Kinda interesting (and something that's been discussed a bunch on APUG - especially the two countries divided by a common language stuff).

 

[removed account4]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMe3WDmxBEI

 

[Vaughn]

You can hear me say 'photography' next Tuesday at 1pm (Pacific Time) on our local college station (live streaming).

http://www.khsu.org/listen_live

Just a painter and I talking about an upcoming fund-raiser (Art in the Garden). I will demo the 11x14, and the painter how to paint outdoors.

PS -- I have no idea how I pronounce it.

 

[Gerald C Koch]

Hungarian is pronounced exactly as it is spelled EXCEPT for some proper names. In the case of Moholy-Nagy the left part of his name is pronounced exactly as it is spelled but the right is pronounced Nadj. Think of the sound of dge in the English word nudge.

A friend who is from Hungary told me that spelling bees do not exist there for they are rather pointless.

 

[Klainmeister]

After decades of reading I must admit I only recently realized I was mispronouncing Catechol. It got me thinking about all the other photochemical compounds I read and write about. I'm probably mispronouncing several.

Wait...how do you say it?

 

[Bill Burk]

... photographs which themselves are more compelling than the actual experience we witness.
...

to paraphrase Gjon Mili in that recording, whose word "immobile" sounds quite different than I'd ever heard before...

 

[Gerald C Koch]

After decades of reading I must admit I only recently realized I was mispronouncing Catechol.

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."

Actually the smell of catechol is not that bad. It reminds me of the smell of an old time drugstore before pharmacists became merely pill counters.

Or perhaps, "Catechol, Catechol wherefore art thou Catechol?

 

[Shawn Dougherty]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMe3WDmxBEI

Excellent.

I caught about 2 minutes of the Today show the other day and they were giving some highlights from some recent study of regional pronunciations of words like caramel. The maps for each word were different, too. Kinda interesting (and something that's been discussed a bunch on APUG - especially the two countries divided by a common language stuff).

Sounds like a great segment, Bethe! I love that sort of thing. "Creek", as you've surely heard by now, has a couple different pronunciations here in western Pennsylvania...

After decades of reading I must admit I only recently realized I was mispronouncing Catechol. It got me thinking about all the other photochemical compounds I read and write about. I'm probably mispronouncing several.

I've no idea how to pronounce that either... Been wondering since I started mixing it in 2004.

 

[jimmybuzaid]

I pronounce as fuh-tog-ruff-ee

 

[benjiboy]

Anyone else see the irony?

What is with all the grumpy people on forums these days? When I was young the expression "Get a life!" was popular. Maybe it should be brought back.

I've had a long and eventful life, I just don't want to spend what's left of it contemplating how people with their various speech patterns pronounce the word "photography".

 

[Shawn Dougherty]

I've had a long and eventful life, I just don't want to spend what's left of it contemplating how people with their various speech patterns pronounce the word "photography".

And you've made that clear... yet here you are again, thinking about it... reading about it... posting about it. You're hilarious!

Linguistics! Pronunciation, enunciation, local - regional - colloquial vernacular. And especially in the context of the medium I (we) love. That interests me and at least a few others here. So why keep bitching about it? Wow....

 

[Patrick Robert James]

I've had a long and eventful life, I just don't want to spend what's left of it contemplating how people with their various speech patterns pronounce the word "photography".

You can always ignore it. Not hard to do. I ignore lots of things on the internet.

I speak a few languages and have always been interested in permutations inside a language as well as how languages influence other languages.

I don't think my life will ever be long enough for me to stop being interested in the world.

 

[Shawn Dougherty]

I pronounce as fuh-tog-ruff-ee

Thanks, Jim. This is also the most natural way for me to pronounce it. I've been trying to put the first "o" back into it as of late but old habits are hard to break.

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

I like saying "taking pictures".

Reason: It drives some people absolutely up the wall, because they think somehow their use of a camera is more noble than 'taking pictures' and insist they are 'making images' or 'capturing light' or some such nonsense.

 

[batwister]

I like saying "taking pictures".

Reason: It drives some people absolutely up the wall, because they think somehow their use of a camera is more noble than 'taking pictures' and insist they are 'making images' or 'capturing light' or some such nonsense.

'Take' and 'make' definitely apply to very different photographic methodologies. It's not just about being pedantic - but these days, anybody who takes something seriously for more than 20 minutes is pretentious. I like taking and making pictures, and use the words interchangeably, depending on how I'm shooting and, I'll be honest... who I'm talking to. You don't speak the Queen's English when chatting with the plumber.

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

'Take' and 'make' definitely apply to very different photographic methodologies. It's not just about being pedantic - but these days, anybody who takes something seriously for more than 20 minutes is pretentious. I like taking and making pictures, and use the words interchangeably, depending on how I'm shooting and, I'll be honest... who I'm talking to. You don't speak the Queen's English when chatting with the plumber.

I know you know that my reply was tongue in cheek. Just having fun, and poking fun at the establishment. It's lovely to watch some people cringe when I utter those words. Noted photographers like Sid Kaplan calls them 'snaps'. Who cares?

 

[dpurdy]

Furtographers take pichers.

I once had a thousand business cards printed and they spelled it Photograper.

 

[Shawn Dougherty]

I like saying "taking pictures".

Reason: It drives some people absolutely up the wall, because they think somehow their use of a camera is more noble than 'taking pictures' and insist they are 'making images' or 'capturing light' or some such nonsense.

I've found myself saying that "I'm exposing some film" to avoid using either. Don't want to be to low or high brow.

Furtographers take pichers.

I once had a thousand business cards printed and they spelled it Photograper.

=) Do you still have the cards?

I hear the word pictures pronounced "pitchers" all the time...

 

[winger]

I hear the word pictures pronounced "pitchers" all the time...

I think that's a western PA thing, though it might be in other areas, too.

 

[jimmybuzaid]

A photo is just some light on some paper. It's what you make of it that matters.