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Is moogerfooger pronounced mouger fouger?
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 12:07 pm
by junebughunter
I often wonder since MOOG is prounced Moooozzzhh or Mouge does that mean moogerfooger is pronounced moozsher foozsher or is it in fact moo-(as in cow)-grr-(as in lion)-foo-(as in gangsta)-er(as in idiot answer)
Anybody know for sure, cause I would feel like an idiot saying moozhserfoozsher
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 12:30 pm
by Boeing 737-400
Haha!
I don't think anyone knows the answer to this one!
MoogerFooger
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 12:46 pm
by theglyph
Dr. Moog talks about how his name is pronounced on the Moog DVD (extras)! I would assume Foog would follow the similar pronunciation!
BTW if you can't get the Moog DVD he explains that the pronunciation is used in different ways in his family (e.g. Muug or Moog).
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:09 pm
by mee3d
mowger fowger!
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:08 pm
by MC
No no no, it's spelled moogerfooger, but it's pronouced throat warbler mangrove.
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:22 pm
by Boeing 737-400
Ask a 100 people how they would pronounce it, and see which is most common.
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:42 pm
by Boeing 737-400
A bit off topic, but how do the Japanese pronounce Roland? I heard they don't have an L sound!
Roand!
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:54 pm
by theglyph
I hear they are building a roandfoand. insert the L if you like.
In the movie he pronounces his name mowg!
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 6:01 pm
by mee3d
MC
Sorry, but I have Bob, on camera, pronouncing it MOWGER FOWGER (thats ger, as in grrr).
Mal
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 7:04 pm
by Sweep
Boeing 737-400 wrote:A bit off topic, but how do the Japanese pronounce Roland? I heard they don't have an L sound!
Yes, they do. They just don't put it where you'd expect. Ask Jelly Harriwell. She was Jelly all the time she was in Japan.
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 7:36 pm
by Boeing 737-400
I'm confused even further now!
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 8:42 pm
by Sweep
Dave Bristow would be the person to ask about Japanese pronunciation. Did anyone ever hear him demonstrate the speech synthesis function on the Yamaha CX5M - which only worked if you input everything in a parody of a Japanese person speaking English. If you tried to get it to say `hello' it didn't know what you were on about, but if you typed `haro' it would greet you in a heavy Japanese accent.
I can't remember where the synth put `l' sounds, only that it couldn't recognise them in `hello.'
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 3:53 pm
by hieronymous
The only thing funnier than Japanese people trying to say Ls and Rs is English speakers trying to pronounce Japanese correctly!
Actually, Japanese doesn't have L or R, it has its own sound that is inbetween, though it's usually transliterated as "R" (as in Harajuku). A name like "Roland"
is a bit of a mystery actually...
Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 3:17 am
by sundaeclubber
The name was only changed to Roland because Europeans didn't know whether the name of the previous company was Ace-Tone or Acetone (as in dimethyl ketone...)
Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 8:29 am
by hieronymous
sundaeclubber wrote:The name was only changed to Roland because Europeans didn't know whether the name of the previous company was Ace-Tone or Acetone (as in dimethyl ketone...)
Are you serious?!! I had no idea that Roland was once Acetone. I had an Acetone bass amp for a long time:
It wasn't the greatest amp but it got me through a lot of gigs! My favorite part was the "Tone Selector"...