Luke Thomas: Jiri's name is actually pronounced 'Yeezy'

[humdizzle]

Just saw this on morning kombat. Do you sherbro linguists agree?

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[jeff7b9]

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[svmr_db]

Luke should just follow the UFC commentators lead on the pronunciation of foreign fighters names and stop trying to outsmart them lol.

 

[Willie]

I tried to learn Czech for a bit, the 'r' is pronounced a bit like 'rj' (with a rolled "r". It sounds like "Yeerjy" Not Yeezy at all.

He should ask Jon Anik, he's pretty good at pronouncing foreign names.

 

[RemyR]

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

He should ask Jon Anik, he's pretty good at pronouncing foreign names.

The way he says Pereira like Pa-hey-da bothers me

 

[rear naked ankle pick]

Luke is ugly as hell and very boring person

 

[Mohawk Banditó]

 

[MonkeyPickAss]

Luke is a fucking cancer. He should shut the fuck up and never speak again.

 

[Willie]

The way he says Pereira like Pa-hey-da bothers me

He sounds like he's talking about spanish paella which is prounounced similarily. He and others are trying so hard at pronouncing names the "right way" even though they can't. It's one of my pet peeves. It's ok if you can't pronounce a name very well, but don't try to sound like a local if you're not.

 

[Speedy1]

All this time I was reading it as Yuri

 

[forRealHuh]

Yeer-zhee

 

[Local Plata]

Well, it's not.

 

[TheMessiah]

Young Jeezy

 

[Poirierfan]

Luke should just follow the UFC commentators lead on the pronunciation of foreign fighters names and stop trying to outsmart them lol.

Luke will always and forever be a big snobby fucktard, it is what it is.

 

[Willie]

The real pronounciation
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Jiří_Procházka.ogg

 

[Siver!]

It's pronounced however we wanna pronounce it

 

[Bojka]

All this time I was reading it as Yuri

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It's obviously the Czech form of Yuri. Czech and Slovaks have some strange consonant pronunciations (in Slovak c can make a ts sound), but I have a hard time believing it is pronounced exactly like Yeezy.

edit: After researching, it's pronounced something like Jirzi.

There is the Polish tennis player Jerzy Janowicz and they would be more or less the same name.

 

[roman510]

I tried to learn Czech for a bit, the 'r' is pronounced a bit like 'rj' (with a rolled "r". It sounds like "Yeerjy" Not Yeezy at all.

He should ask Jon Anik, he's pretty good at pronouncing foreign names.

I'm Slovak and this is correct

 

[markantony20]

His appearance on Alex Jones’s show was surreal.