I always thought it was go-DOH, with no T sound...but my French sucks...
All Cretans are liars.—Epimenides the Cretan
If you play Ace Attorney theirs a name that plays of of the correct pronnunciation. Diego Armando. Of course then you have to know correct Spanish Pronunciations.
The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.
You have to remember, of course, that Beckett was Irish, and a very difficult aspect of learning French for an Irish person is getting used to the way in which syllables are stressed. In Hiberno-English, stress tends to be placed on the penultimate syllable (meaning we pronounce 'Godot' more like 'GOD-oh' than 'go-DOH'), whilst the distribution tends to be a lot more even in French.
A play in which the audience is locked out of the theater? I think I've read every Beckett play, and I'm not sure which one that is.
It's not pronounced Go-DOHT?
I thought that was the right pronounciation, considering Beckett wrote it originally in French IIRC...
Probably should get working on that essay now... Hide / Show Replies