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Maggie
Planet_JASE
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Maggagie noodles.
Poimandres
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Ma-Gee is how it's pronounced. Bunch of savages in here, I swear. Were you all home schooled or something?
They had actual TV ads where the pronunciation was made clear, so I'm not sure how this is a debate? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-WczD5r1V0
classic gif v gif tho
Gif is hard g because graphics is hard g and the creator is just a troll. Maggi isn't really derived from anything, so I will be an obedient consumer and do what the brand owner tells me.
Mar gee?
Lucian Cat
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We argue over schnitties and potato cakes. What do you expect.
Interesting.
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
What would you call Maggi Noodles on a single slice of bread?
ThoseDeafMutes
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Lucian Cat
Kissed a mod for a tag; liked it
Good to see there's at least some sane people around here.
I suspect all this potato cake rubbish comes from Melbourne.
Though I guess at least the savages aren't calling em potato fritters.
ClivePwned
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How is it even up for debate? the ads always said it with a soft g like Magic, not McGee.
"Maggi, Maggi, Maggi. Flavour, flavour, flavour."
"the Sega game was at Beta and the QA team ate Maggi noodles. When the game shipped, they ate sausages on bread and chicken parmigiana."
"Maggi, Maggi, Maggi. Flavour, flavour, flavour."
"the Sega game was at Beta and the QA team ate Maggi noodles. When the game shipped, they ate sausages on bread and chicken parmigiana."
ClivePwned
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A waste of bread
BananaArnie
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there is no such thing as a schnitties
ClivePwned
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For you Ausgaffers who've lived in Japan, particularly if you don't pass for a local, have you been offered a drinking straw when buying a bottle/carton of milk?
Planet_JASE
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Curiously though, what do you do in the case of Nutella, where different regions have used different pronunciations in their commercials? We say Nut-ella, where the American ads have used New-tella.
That appears to be the case with Maggi. Where capitalism fails, nativism picks up I guess.
Planet_JASE
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What do you do if you move to a country where the alternate pronunciation is used?
ThoseDeafMutes
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Many major cities call them potato cakes, such as hobart.
Depends on the context. If I was asking a shop assistant for assistance, I would attempt to use the local pronunciation. If I found myself employed with HolyCheck's company, I would "debate" the correctness of my embedded cultural experience for hours with my co-workers.
Planet_JASE
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Would you also seek confirmation bias from the internet so that you could try to win your debate on subsequent days/feel better about your own stance?
reptilescorpio
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Ori & the Blind Forest on X1 is $13.48
Some Forza Horizon 2 DLC is 75% off (here and here)
Sorry dude, at least wrestling has been great! NXT Takeover was A+ and Lucha starts up again soon!
I don't post as much in here due to my shift to Twitter. I can say any damn thing I want on there due to the design of the medium which is awesome. If people don't like it they just unfollow, win win for everyone!
Also I've stopped reading a lot of GAF over the last 2 years. Most threads devolve very quickly into uncurbed stupidity so it's hard to invest in a conversation unless you get in early and set the tone.
Some Forza Horizon 2 DLC is 75% off (here and here)
Sorry dude, at least wrestling has been great! NXT Takeover was A+ and Lucha starts up again soon!
Just talk about beer
Honestly though, a couple of Australian Gaffers who I play with told me they don't post in this thread because it is weird.
I don't post as much in here due to my shift to Twitter. I can say any damn thing I want on there due to the design of the medium which is awesome. If people don't like it they just unfollow, win win for everyone!
Also I've stopped reading a lot of GAF over the last 2 years. Most threads devolve very quickly into uncurbed stupidity so it's hard to invest in a conversation unless you get in early and set the tone.
I would hope that moving overseas would not interrupt my daily habits in that regard.
Ruthless_Barbarian
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Pronounced 'Maggie' all over the world. Why must we argue over this? :/
The ones we get here are disgusting. Try buying the imported ones from an ethnic shop, they are really good.
The ones we get here are disgusting. Try buying the imported ones from an ethnic shop, they are really good.
ClivePwned
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I have. no one cared to correct me. I bought a Mazda in America and continued to say it the Australian way- Maazda rather than the US version Mahzda. No one cared. When I move to the UK, I'll still order Pahsta rather than the Uk-preffered Paasta (basically the opposite of AU-US mazda) and Super Mahrio rather that weird UK way of saying mario.
If I come back to visit and sound like a Brit, shoot me. no offense to Brits, but shoot me.
Some people say Lay-go, some say Leg-O. Some people have traumatic head injuries, others don't.
I don't see why I should pronounce a product or company name differently from how I've been taught by that company for decades just because American's have a different pronunciation.
actually, Death Jr is perfectly right.
we are a big bag of dicks.
none of the good ones
ThoseDeafMutes
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But I'll be there
Just got back from Star Wars. Thought it was an absolute blast.
Go into the spoiler thread on GAF to see the reactions of people (FORCE AWAKENS SPOILER):
Nerds, man.
Go into the spoiler thread on GAF to see the reactions of people (FORCE AWAKENS SPOILER):
Some dude complaining about a plot hole, asking where the First Order would have got the money to build the Star Killer.
Nerds, man.
ClivePwned
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it's latin for queen. also a not so common girl's name. i went to school with a girl called Regina- though she pronounced it Rej EEna.
It's pretty much standard. Even school lunches come with milk with a drinking straw
ClivePwned
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friend of mine who lived there a bit hated being singled out (six foot and red haired)- apparently when he bought large milk cartons from the supermarket or corner shop, he'd be offered a straw when any Japanese person, including his wife, wouldn't be. He reckoned because people always saw American TV and movies where people were drinking straight from the bottle.
Chances are the dude was just being paranoid after constantly being asked by women how tall he was.
He probably didn't realise they weren't necessarily interested in his height
I wouldn't care, I'm happy to disappoint people.
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
In Taiwan the straws are just beside the cash register. The staff occasionally point them out to you but they just expect you to know they're there.
You just reminded me of the funny looks I got when I bought milk in Korea. I was working out heavily at the time and I drank about 3-4 litres of milk a day. One day a week the Homeplus would sell milk at a discount price so I'd buy like 12-24 litres at a time. I imagine that the checkout people at the Homeplus still bring me up in conversations about "crazy white people".
Yeah that's how I would say it. Had to look it up to make sure I wasn't being tricked!
That is a great price, jumping on that one.
Hoping for some good bargains in the Steam sale tomorrow.
Why are we arguing about word pronunciation and sausages again? Are there no good games out?
viciouskillersquirrel
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I just felt awkward and huge during my visit to Japan, like all eyes were on me, especially whenever I visited onsens. You white guys thinking you stand out ain't got nothing on my naked brown butt.
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