How do you pronounce Pau Gasol's last name

FSUNOLE03 · Post #1 » by **FSUNOLE03** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:36 pm

I know tirico announced it different last night

Is the correct way

Gah-Sahl? Like its spelled or

Gah-SOUL like Tirico says

hermes · Post #2 » by **hermes** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:38 pm

gah-saul

RJM · Post #3 » by **RJM** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:44 pm

Those ESPN guys are idiots.

Pow Gah-saul.

TommyTheCat · Post #4 » by **TommyTheCat** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:47 pm

Pau AndOne

Post #5 » by **snaquille oatmeal** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:49 pm

from somebody that speaks Spanish- Gah-sole

MyKRo · Post #6 » by **MyKRo** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:52 pm

Like the guy said above.

POW . GAH-SOUL

That's how Spanish pronounce it. But either way is right.

As long as you don't call him PAUL KASOL, it's fine.

zen_4_10 · Post #7 » by **zen_4_10** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:53 pm

anyone else hear big game James says it as 'K'asol

zen_4_10 · Post #8 » by **zen_4_10** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:54 pm

MyKRo wrote:Like the guy said above.

POW . GAH-SOUL

That's how Spanish pronounce it. But either way is right.

As long as you don't call him PAUL KASOL, it's fine.

Just beat me to it!

20veinte20 · Post #9 » by **20veinte20** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:10 pm

GAH-SOUL.

P.S. I think Hubie saying 'GAH-SAL" is worse.

EiRON · Post #10 » by **EiRON** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:40 pm

lol Gahsal @ Hubie Brown

ddito · Post #11 » by **ddito** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:41 pm

I don't know why you guys get complicated at the time to explain the sounds... but it's odd to me that some of you who know spanish write it wrong too.

it's /GA-SOL/

plain and simple, there is no /gah/, nor even /soul/ come on, in spanish the 'o' is always pronounced /o/ never /ou/.

and his name is /pau/ (wow! just the way you write it, weird? spanish is easy...) the same sound like 'pow'.

advice for the future: all spanish words are pronounced always as they are written

Big Bird · Post #12 » by **Big Bird** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:47 pm

I understand the trouble when it comes to Vujacic (if I had a $ for every time van Gundy pronounced it wrong, I'd have... well, 23 $ I guess) since you don't have the "ch" letter in your alphabet, but Gasol is as easy at is gets

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ddito saves the day with the pronounciation lesson

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Post #13 » by **dockingsched** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:51 pm

ddito wrote:I don't know why you guys get complicated at the time to explain the sounds... but it's odd to me that some of you who know spanish write it wrong too.

it's /GA-SOL/

plain and simple, there is no /gah/, nor even /soul/ come on, in spanish the 'o' is always pronounced /o/ never /ou/.

and his name is /pau/ (wow! just the way you write it, weird? spanish is easy...) the same sound like 'pow'.

advice for the future: all spanish words are pronounced always as they are written

using "gah-soul" is actually a very effective way to get an english speaker to pronounce it in spanish.

ddito · Post #14 » by **ddito** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 12:12 am

Big Bird wrote:I understand the trouble when it comes to Vujacic (if I had a $ for every time van Gundy pronounced it wrong, I'd have... well, 23 $ I guess) since you don't have the "ch" letter in your alphabet, but Gasol is as easy at is gets .

ddito saves the day with the pronounciation lesson .

but they have the sound, the actual 'ch' sounds like that 'c', it's hard to me do some vocal sounds I've never heard, in english there are like 10 vocal sounds while in spanish only 5, that's difficult. if van gundy didn't know to pronounce it was because he's stupid.

dcash4 wrote:-= original quote snipped =-
using "gah-soul" is actually a very effective way to get an english speaker to pronounce it in spanish.

I know what you're saying, but for me /ga/ is not the same that /gah/ and about 'soul' I thought in the us it was pronounced /soul/ with a very brief /u/ but maybe I'm wrong (in uk is a clear /soul/ sound), and as many people there call gasol /gasoul/ or /gasal/ I just wanted to leave it 100% right.

NOODLESTYLE · Post #15 » by **NOODLESTYLE** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 1:40 am

EiRON wrote:lol Gahsal @ Hubie Brown

don't forget about LOL @ FARMER. So many times he has said that.

Post #16 » by **kno** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:07 am

Yup. Spanish is my first language.

Its definitely Gah-SOUL (if youre reading in English).

EiRON · Post #17 » by **EiRON** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:15 am

NOODLESTYLE wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

don't forget about LOL @ FARMER. So many times he has said that.

haha oh yeah.

20veinte20 · Post #18 » by **20veinte20** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:39 am

ddito wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

I know what you're saying, but for me /ga/ is not the same that /gah/ and about 'soul' I thought in the us it was pronounced /soul/ with a very brief /u/ but maybe I'm wrong (in uk is a clear /soul/ sound), and as many people there call gasol /gasoul/ or /gasal/ I just wanted to leave it 100% right.

'Ga' could be pronounced with an 'ey' sound, as in the word 'gate.'

'Soul' is generally pronounced 'sol', though there are regional variations--just like in the UK.

Post #19 » by **snaquille oatmeal** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 5:01 am

gas sol as in gasoline, but without the "ine" at the end

Post #20 » by **milesfides** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 7:42 am

Gasol is pronounced with a silent G, according to Western Conference executives.