Posted: 4/27/2005 8:38:04 AM EDT
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I just read in the FAQ about the way to pronounce Makarov. That is not how you pronounce it by a long shot. The accurate way to pronounce it is: mak-e-dthO or loosley mak-e-dO I have a friend who surved in the Soviet Red army during their ture of the middle east and carried one in Afghanistan. I used the pronounciation in the FAQ to address it to him just to see what would happen and he didn't have a clue what I was talking about. Another one that is commonley mispronounced is Tokarev. It's properley pronounced as: tOk-e-dthu or loosley tOk-e-du Note that the -e- in both is pronounced as a slight pause between sylabols. |
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That same diolect is used in the Spanish language. Think of how you say 3 in spanish or how Count Dracula ( who has a Russian accent ) introduces himself: "I am count d-.-dtha-coo-lu BTW. I showd this to that guy and he said that Makarov is commonley pronounced mak-.-dO but the exact pronounciation is: mak-o-dthO If all else fails, you can listen to this audio feed below of someone saying: "greetings" in Russian where you can hear that diolect and compare it to how I am listing pronounciations ( "greetings in russian is pronounced: p-.-dthE-vE-et The Russians use those verbs the same way that we use the "R" and when you hear people speek English words with a Russian accent, you will often hear them use that diolect in sted of the r sound, which makes up the majority of noticability in the Russian accent in the English tongue. As weird as it may sound, it's a diolect that everyone here has heard before and probabley hears on a regulear basis. |
| Just saw a show on guns on the History channel and they were covering russian guns and the russian they were interviewing pronounced it just how it is spelled(Makarov). He was speaking Russian also and it was translated but when he said Makarov that is how he pronounced it speaking Russian. He was a military man also so it is probibly pronounced Makarov. |
| My wife is Russian and was in the militia where she used the Mak as her assigned duty pistol, so I tend to trust her pronunciation. It is Maw-Kay-rawv, with the accent on the second syllable. Maw as in "She is my Mother, but we call her 'Maw'."; Kay as in "O-kay!" and Rawv as in a piece of raw meat with the "V" attached to the end. |