Factotum Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 Online threats of a boycott are nonsense though. By the time the event comes around, the '20,000 people who have signed a petition' end up about 5 people outside with a banner. Not really pertinent to any of this but boycott twitter threats are the worst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
returner82 Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 So, how about Umanga trying to give the big-nippled vampire the Samoan Spike, then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snitsky's back acne Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 33 minutes ago, returner82 said: So, how about Umanga trying to give the big-nippled vampire the Samoan Spike, then? I never did get why Regal called him 'Yoomanga'...Ā Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted October 19, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted October 19, 2018 9 minutes ago, Snitsky's back acne said: I never did get why Regal called him 'Yoomanga'...Ā In many Samoan, Fijian, Tongan dialects, an A in the middle of a word has an invisible N after it. See Manu Tuilagi in rugger as a further example, pronounced Tuilangi. So Regal pronounced Umaga right, everybody else was saying it wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snitsky's back acne Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 12 minutes ago, air_raid said: In many Samoan, Fijian, Tongan dialects, an A in the middle of a word has an invisible N after it. See Manu Tuilagi in rugger as a further example, pronounced Tuilangi. So Regal pronounced Umaga right, everybody else was saying it wrong. Excellent! He is an educated man that Mr Regal.Ā Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted October 19, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted October 19, 2018 27 minutes ago, air_raid said: In many Samoan, Fijian, Tongan dialects, an A in the middle of a word has an invisible N after it. See Manu Tuilagi in rugger as a further example, pronounced Tuilangi. So Regal pronounced Umaga right, everybody else was saying it wrong. Translation: He cocked it up once, it sounded funny so he kept doing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted October 19, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted October 19, 2018 Trivia: in Tagalog (the prevalent native Filipino language), "good morning" is "magandang umaga". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dart Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 He also said he did it because people would remember it, which is true I guess, but I think that was him not really having an answer when someone asked him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Surf Digby Posted October 19, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted October 19, 2018 4 hours ago, tiger_rick said: Translation: He cocked it up once, it sounded funny so he kept doing it. At the Hall of Fame, Mrs Maivia pronounced it Umanga, but with a soft G. So the correct pronunciation appears to be Ooh-mang-ah, rather than Ooh-man-ga. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
returner82 Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 So, what was Armanda Estrada's involvement in all of this? Did he film it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Statto Posted October 20, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted October 20, 2018 11 hours ago, Nostalgia Nonce said: At the Hall of Fame, Mrs Maivia pronounced it Umanga, but with a soft G. So the correct pronunciation appears to be Ooh-mang-ah, rather than Ooh-man-ga. To @air_raidās point, the best rugby analogue would be former All Blacks captain Tana Umaga (born in NZ to Samoan parents) whose name has always been pronounced as per @Nostalgia Nonceās first example there. Itās proven surprisingly difficult to find a video of Tana saying his own name, so hereās another example of the āinvisibleĀ Nā from the greatest quarterback any of you will eventually see: āYoomangaā is definitely a botch, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 If the allegations against him in the OP are true, then the correct way of pronouncing his name is "cunt" with a hard C at the beginning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
returner82 Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 If only Rosey had been around to save her... he's a Super Hero In Training, don't you know (look what word the first letters spell out, LOLZ!)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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