imho, imo is enough. Why would you have to clarify that you're being honest on this occasion? Do you lie when you use imo sometimes then?
Isn't the 'h' Humble rather than Honest?
I think it depends on whether you are being humble or honest.
or if you are talking about the International Medical Health Organization.
Using z instead of s
But it's an american organisation so didn't feel the need to change the z.
Also, '-ize' is known as the Oxford spelling as it is favoured by OED. OED considers it etymologically correct as it is closer to the Greek root. '-ize' was a standard spelling in England in the 1500s. Somewhere along the way, we have taken on the French variant of using '-ise' whereas the Americans have retained '-ize'.
I find this annoying for two reasons. (a) I dislike '-ize', looks far too aggressive and American, and (b) it means the Americans are correct.
Commentators who insist on referring to Man City's Navas as "Hey Zeuss" Navas every time he touches the ball. It's Jesus you twonks and if you don't know how to pronounce it in an English commentary then nip into church on your way to "Super Sunday" and you may find out. And why do you never refer to Milner as "Hay Mees" Milner? Or Hart as plain old Joe Hart? It's only the foreign ones whose first names are chucked around and mispronounced by those dingbats.
He is allowed to pronounce it any way he likes. Its commentators on British TV trying to be clever that annoys me! navas himself may do the same and I'll even grant you that David Silva may not pronounce his name in the same way as David Beckham! Doesn't mean I want some Sky Sports Berk trying to show off every 5 minutes.
He is allowed to pronounce it any way he likes. Its commentators on British TV trying to be clever that annoys me! navas himself may do the same and I'll even grant you that David Silva may not pronounce his name in the same way as David Beckham! Doesn't mean I want some Sky Sports Berk trying to show off every 5 minutes.
If you met Jesus Navas, would you say "Hi Jeezus" ?
If you did, and he corrected your pronunciation, what would you do?
So then if you were to talk about him to someone else, you would call him "Hey Zeus"...?
Yes. I wouldn't know any better, would I? (But if I was reading out his name to a bunch of English speakers off a team sheet I would probably say Jesus...wouldn't you?)
Commentators who insist on referring to Man City's Navas as "Hey Zeuss" Navas every time he touches the ball. It's Jesus you twonks and if you don't know how to pronounce it in an English commentary then nip into church on your way to "Super Sunday" and you may find out. And why do you never refer to Milner as "Hay Mees" Milner? Or Hart as plain old Joe Hart? It's only the foreign ones whose first names are chucked around and mispronounced by those dingbats.
Commentators who insist on referring to Man City's Navas as "Hey Zeuss" Navas every time he touches the ball. It's Jesus you twonks and if you don't know how to pronounce it in an English commentary then nip into church on your way to "Super Sunday" and you may find out. And why do you never refer to Milner as "Hay Mees" Milner? Or Hart as plain old Joe Hart? It's only the foreign ones whose first names are chucked around and mispronounced by those dingbats.
To be fair to commentators I believe it's paranoia about offending Christians. Supposedly you're not allowed to call yourself 'Jesus' and pronounce it that way.
So then if you were to talk about him to someone else, you would call him "Hey Zeus"...?
Yes. I wouldn't know any better, would I? (But if I was reading out his name to a bunch of English speakers off a team sheet I would probably say Jesus...wouldn't you?)
My point is this: If you don't know how to pronounce someone's name, it's not a problem to get it wrong when reading from a sheet. However, once you do know the way he pronounces his name, it would be weird to pronounce it any other way. The commentators are far more likely to know, as they're likely to meet and interview these players,or talk to other commentators/journalists from the player's country.
I don't think it's about "showing off". No one is going to be impressed by how you or I say 'James Rodriguez'. It's just about knowing how the person pronounces the name and repeating that.
There's no clear convention on how to say names of those where their native pronunciation differs from how the English would pronounce it. If there is no anglicised version of the name, such as Jose (which again differs depending on if your country pronounces it Hosay or Josay) then pundits generally pronounce these as the person himself says it. If there is an anglicised version then it usually varies. Jesus has been Anglicised but it isn't actually very common to call anyone apart from Jesus Christ Jesus when pronounced the anglicised way. Most notable people called Jesus excepting Christ are from Latin countries and so I would agree that 'Hey-zeus' is probably more conventional. The other thing is when players from countries that don't follow the our system of 'first-name family-name'. Particularly notable when pundits would alternate between Park Ji-Sung and Ji-Sung Park like the spanners they are.
What annoys me is why we went from Ivory Coast to Cote D'Ivoire when it is displayed on telly yet the same isn't done for the other countries that aren't officially known as what the English call them (Switzerland, Japan, Spain, Italy, Germany to name a few).
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You may well be right, either way the 'h' is a waste of valuable keyboard finger energy imo.
https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=imho meaning
Sort it out son before Leroy Ambrose spots it.
Nah only jokin' just messing with ya
I find this annoying for two reasons. (a) I dislike '-ize', looks far too aggressive and American, and (b) it means the Americans are correct.
If you did, and he corrected your pronunciation, what would you do?
I don't want Siri piping up
I don't want the Google microphone thingy to start bleeping
I don't want Facebook videos to start playing sound as I'm scrolling down
I don't want Vine videos playing sound when on Twitter
If these things are making noise, that's the opposite of silence. Silent mode should mean the speaker on my phone does not make a single sound.
We know what desperately sad people look like ffs!
I don't think it's about "showing off". No one is going to be impressed by how you or I say 'James Rodriguez'. It's just about knowing how the person pronounces the name and repeating that.
What annoys me is why we went from Ivory Coast to Cote D'Ivoire when it is displayed on telly yet the same isn't done for the other countries that aren't officially known as what the English call them (Switzerland, Japan, Spain, Italy, Germany to name a few).