To: JoeProBono
What's the Freeper consensus on pronunciation? This
FAQ claims it's "mo-SEEN na-GOHN".
3 posted on
03/08/2014 4:19:59 PM PST by
Yardstick
To: Yardstick
According to the ex commie who lives in the neighborhood behind me, and grew up in Russia, it’s pronounced Moe-seen Nahgahn
The T is silent in Nagant.
4 posted on
03/08/2014 4:23:52 PM PST by
JoeProBono
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To: Yardstick
MO-seen Nah-GON. Russia uses the Cyrillic alphabet, while we use the Latin alphabet.
To get from one to the other, you have to transliterate, which is always open to interpretation.
5 posted on
03/08/2014 4:24:38 PM PST by
JoeProBono
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To: Yardstick
I pronounce it Mosin Nagant, ‘cause I’m an American and no commie tells me how to talk.
To: Yardstick
Sounds like ....”Mose’in naw gaunt”.... Was how I was taught in the service.
8 posted on
03/08/2014 4:26:50 PM PST by
Squantos
( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
To: Yardstick
Mosin was Russian. (MO-seen)
Nagant was Belgian. (Na-gau)
The Russians never called the rifle the Mosin-Nagant.
Although Nagant sued, and was paid hush money, the fact remained that no appreciable part of his design was incorporated in the final rifle, and that Mosin’s design won the competition. As that wasn’t well known at the time, the Western media just called it the Mosin-Nagant.
16 posted on
03/08/2014 5:16:08 PM PST by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: Yardstick; JoeProBono; mylife
What's the Freeper consensus on pronunciation? This FAQ claims it's "mo-SEEN na-GOHN". Personally, I just call her Tatiyana.
To: Yardstick
40 posted on
03/08/2014 10:14:02 PM PST by
BuckeyeTexan
(There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
To: Yardstick
To: Yardstick
It’s pronounced “moist nugget”.
59 posted on
03/09/2014 8:55:13 AM PDT by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: Yardstick
No, Say it this way: “Commie rifle”.
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