How do you pronounce 'Don Quixote'?

[Dillinger4]

I've got a copy of it in the house, I think. Should I bother?

Yeh, it is amazing.

And really really funny for a medieval book.

 

[Pieface]

I say KEY-HO-TAY.

 

[quimcunx]

No need to shout.

 

[Pieface]

Sorry - I got all continentall there.

 

[cesare]

I say KEY-HO-TAY.

How do you say the H?

 

[Diamond]

Yeh, it is amazing.

And really really funny for a medieval book.

I don't think the fact that it's from the seventeenth century means its humour is anymore remarkable. They did have laughs back then too, in between all the inquisitioning and other stuff obviously.

 

[Pieface]

HARD cesare! Like gangsta for prostitute.

 

[cesare]

HARD cesare! Like gangsta for prostitute.

I knew it!

I bet those people that do it properly end up with flecks of spittle round their gob.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Saying 'quick-soat' seems like an affectation to me. ke-ho-tay with the 'h' pronounced the English way is just fine. Saying it the Spanish way is sometimes fine, other times bordering on pretentiousness, like saying Nicaragua the Spanish way.

 

[Lea]

Sometimes Don Key-hot-tey, sometimes Don Keyshott. I think the latter is the French way of pronouncing it.

 

[cesare]

I don't think the fact that it's from the seventeenth century means its humour is anymore remarkable. They did have laughs back then too, in between all the inquisitioning and other stuff obviously.

Even Chaucer and Boccaccio had a sense of humour. Fancy that!

 

[Pieface]

Chaucer was a right sauce. I always imagine him as a furiously wanking Benny Hill.

 

[Dillinger4]

I don't think the fact that it's from the seventeenth century means its humour is anymore remarkable. They did have laughs back then too, in between all the inquisitioning and other stuff obviously.

Well obviously, Chaucer wrote earlier than Cervantes and he was very very funny as well.

Cervantes was satirizing a lot of chivalric romance, which, for example if you read the knights tale in The Canterbury Tales, is not very funny at all.

 

[Dillinger4]

Even Chaucer and Boccaccio had a sense of humour. Fancy that!

Gosh.

 

[cesare]

Chaucer was a right sauce. I always imagine him as a furiously wanking Benny Hill.

Ah, now I imagine him as a Frankie Howard. I read him with a Frankie Howard voice in my head.

 

[cesare]

Gosh.

Remarkable even.

 

[Diamond]

Well obviously, Chaucer wrote earlier than Cervantes and he was very very funny as well.

Cervantes was satirizing a lot of chivalric romance, which, for example if you read the knights tale in The Canterbury Tales, is not very funny at all.

I didn't just mean the writers though. I'm pretty sure that a strong seam of ribald humour ran through most medieval societies. I seem to remember some paper that came out a while back featuring medieval jokes, or maybe they were Roman. Some of them were pretty funny.

 

[quimcunx]

I don't think the fact that it's from the seventeenth century means its humour is anymore remarkable. They did have laughs back then too, in between all the inquisitioning and other stuff obviously.

Well yeah, but some of it doesn't age well. I'll be reading it in 2009 not 1690.


Like with some shakespeare some of it is just polite laughter to show you know it's a joke.

Merry Wives of Windsor made me right proper laugh. The physicality was excellent mind.

 

[keybored]

Donkey Ho Tea, just like Nik Kershaw did.

ETA "Windmills and shit"

 

[Dillinger4]

.

 

[Dillinger4]

Well yeah, but some of it doesn't age well. I'll be reading it in 2009 not 1690.


Like with some shakespeare some of it is just polite laughter to show you know it's a joke.

Merry Wives of Windsor made me right proper laugh. The physicality was excellent mind.

No, this is what really surprised me - just how well some of the humour had aged.

Some humour really is timeless.

 

[Relahni]

Don key ho tay.

Cervantes is probably the best or second best writer of all time imo.

Shakespeare was around at the same time and it's definately between these two imo.

I have quixote every day on Twitter and will probably read it again some time soon.

Absolutely quality book - my favourite eva in real life.

 

[quimcunx]

I didn't just mean the writers though. I'm pretty sure that a strong seam of ribald humour ran through most medieval societies. I seem to remember some paper that came out a while back featuring medieval jokes, or maybe they were Roman. Some of them were pretty funny.

And, therefore, plenty that weren't, proving that there were also some right witless boors back in the middle ages too.

 

[Santino]

Glasgow >> Glaswegian

What's that about? It should be Glasgovian.

 

[D'wards]

You are all wrong.

Its spelt "Don Quixote", but pronounced "Throatwobbler-Mangrove"

 

[Orang Utan]

donkey oatey

 

[MightyAphrodite]

dan quix oats

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Chaucer was a right sauce. I always imagine him as a furiously wanking Benny Hill.

 

[MightyAphrodite]

nah really its key-oh-tay

the don part is fairly obviously

 

[MightyAphrodite]

dp...oops.


windmills and shit vvv