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I rarely... as Dr. Everett Scott would put it, "schnep!" With me it's the total opposite, where I was saner younger, I'm nuttier older, or at least it seems that way. I guess madness is relative. 8unsure

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marisa, what phil was saying is he rarely "snaps"... to snap in american/english lingo is to explode in anger or frustration, but dr. everett scott is probably german, so phil wrote it as the dr. would say it with a german accent it wouldnt sound like "snap" but "schnep".

Yeah, kind of strange that, he's got an English name yet a German/Austrian/Swiss type pseudo-accent. 8unsure

Oh I forgot the "von," which funnily enough is exactly what he does. 8grin

marisa, what phil was saying is he rarely "snaps"... to snap in american/english lingo is to explode in anger or frustration, but dr. everett scott is probably german, so phil wrote it as the dr. would say it with a german accent it wouldnt sound like "snap" but "schnep". :D thanks lol

LOL...you tortured that one Marisa Babe! Its DAY-vid le-GATES . I forgot to quote this, I know it's day-vid, but it's pronounced Dah-vid in spanish (:

In Italian it's Dah-veed-eh.

In Italian it's Dah-veed-eh. Actually Phil, when my Italian nonna said my name, it was "Oooh Dah-veed-eh". For years I thought the "Oooh" was part of the name!

LOL...you tortured that one Marisa Babe! Its DAY-vid le-GATES . I forgot to quote this, I know it's day-vid, but it's pronounced Dah-vid in spanish (: Dah-VID or Dah-VEED? You teach me on that one! My Spanish teacher used to say Dah-VEED, but she wasn't always right! :) She was a nice lady, Mrs. Player was her name, so naturally she became Senora Jugador. Red Sox fan, but I liked her anyway! :)

it's dah-veed, Mrs. Player lol, it would've been funny if your spanish teacher was a man, you could call him Mr. Player :lol:

For years I thought the "Oooh" was part of the name! That can easily happen, half of my grandpa's kids surnames are one spelling and the other half another, just because some offical totally missunderstood what he'd said. 8smile

For years I thought the "Oooh" was part of the name! That can easily happen, half of my grandpa's kids surnames are one spelling and the other half another, just because some offical totally missunderstood what he'd said. 8smileThat happened a lot. Especially at Ellis Island. Many people wound up being called other names out of mispronounciation and the names would be misspelled. Then when everyone either went to work or school, the teacher or the boss just called them the names that were on the paperwork. Then, in my grandmother's case, and a few others, her name was Maria, but the teacher got mad because there were too many Maria's. So the teacher gave all the Maria's new names. So my grandmother wound up with Carmen. Then her parents who were of the mindset set of "we better not make trouble here or they'll kick us out" started calling her Carmen, which came out "Carmel". My grandmother's gravestone says "Carmel" which she was called the rest of her life.

Yeah, found that a lot with researching my US side of the family, loads and loads of fucked up surnames every which way and some.

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