Giro Starts in Genova?

Davey Crockett

So where the heck is Genova?

Granted, it IS the Giro d'Italia and far be it from me to forbid anyone to use their native language to define start/finish/intermediate points for their National Tour.

But what about all those Wannabe Wankers previewing the Tour of Gallia Cisalpina? Have they no thought for the millions of Anglophonic Uni-Lingualists who bought their map where they buy their Slurpies only to discover that Genova is nowhere to be found?

Is it Genova Voltri? Or Genes (Where Jeans come from) or some other place?

Better still to help out idiots like Davey, why not just call it Genoa?

I shudder to think what's gonna happen if the Tour gets anywhere near Livorno or Fiorenza

--
le Vent a Dos
Davey Crockett
Six-Day site: http://members.rogers.com/sixday/sixday.html

Richard Adams

Davey Crockett wrote:

> So where the heck is Genova?
>
> Granted, it IS the Giro d'Italia and far be it from me to forbid anyone to use their native language to define start/finish/intermediate points for their National Tour.
>
> But what about all those Wannabe Wankers previewing the Tour of Gallia Cisalpina? Have they no thought for the millions of Anglophonic Uni-Lingualists who bought their map where they buy their Slurpies only to discover that Genova is nowhere to be found?
>
> Is it Genova Voltri? Or Genes (Where Jeans come from) or some other place?
>
> Better still to help out idiots like Davey, why not just call it Genoa?
>
> I shudder to think what's gonna happen if the Tour gets anywhere near Livorno or Fiorenza
>

I think Genova and Livorno are in the meat section and Fiorenza with the
cheeses. HTH

Callistus Valerius

> So where the heck is Genova?

Who cares? The only thing we have to find is the OLN channel. Just so our
Kirsten finds it, that's all that counts.

Stewart Fleming

Davey Crockett wrote:
> So where the heck is Genova?
>
> Granted, it IS the Giro d'Italia and far be it from me to forbid anyone to use their native language to define start/finish/intermediate points for their National Tour.
>
> But what about all those Wannabe Wankers previewing the Tour of Gallia Cisalpina? Have they no thought for the millions of Anglophonic Uni-Lingualists who bought their map where they buy their Slurpies only to discover that Genova is nowhere to be found?
>
> Is it Genova Voltri? Or Genes (Where Jeans come from) or some other place?
>
> Better still to help out idiots like Davey, why not just call it Genoa?
>
> I shudder to think what's gonna happen if the Tour gets anywhere near Livorno or Fiorenza

Dammit, they should just call it the Tour of Italy and be done with it.
Back in Glasgow, "Have you seen the Giro?" was an altogether different
question concerning welfare benefits.

Tom Kunich

"Davey Crockett" <Davey_Crockett@rogers.com> wrote in message
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> So where the heck is Genova?

In English it's called Genoa. It is on north-western coast on the Med almost
due south of Turin.

Jonathan v.d. Sluis

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> "Davey Crockett" <Davey_Crockett@rogers.com> wrote in message
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> > So where the heck is Genova?
>
> In English it's called Genoa. It is on north-western coast on the Med
almost
> due south of Turin.

Why don't they just call it Genua?

Chris

"Davey Crockett" <Davey_Crockett@rogers.com> wrote in message
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> So where the heck is Genova?
>
> Granted, it IS the Giro d'Italia and far be it from me to forbid anyone to
use their native language to define start/finish/intermediate points for
their National Tour.
>
> But what about all those Wannabe Wankers previewing the Tour of Gallia
Cisalpina? Have they no thought for the millions of Anglophonic
Uni-Lingualists who bought their map where they buy their Slurpies only to
discover that Genova is nowhere to be found?
>
> Is it Genova Voltri? Or Genes (Where Jeans come from) or some other place?
>
> Better still to help out idiots like Davey, why not just call it Genoa?
>
> I shudder to think what's gonna happen if the Tour gets anywhere near
Livorno or Fiorenza
>
> --
> le Vent a Dos
> Davey Crockett
> Six-Day site: http://members.rogers.com/sixday/sixday.html

Are you just trying to be funny since you just now noticed that English
speakers often change the spelling and pronunciation of foreign (to them)
names and locations?

DiabloScott

Chris wrote:
> "Davey Crockett" <Davey_Crockett@rogers.com> wrote in message news:87r7u01n17.fsf@cpe000423176ea9-
> news:87r7u01n17.fsf@cpe000423176ea9-
> cm0f2069983361.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com. ..
> > So where the heck is Genova?
> >
> > Granted, it IS the Giro d'Italia and far be it from me to forbid
> > anyone to
> use their native language to define start/finish/intermediate points for
> their National Tour.
> >
> > But what about all those Wannabe Wankers previewing the Tour of Gallia
> Cisalpina? Have they no thought for the millions of Anglophonic Uni-
> Lingualists who bought their map where they buy their Slurpies only to
> discover that Genova is nowhere to be found?
> >
> > Is it Genova Voltri? Or Genes (Where Jeans come from) or some
> > other place?
> >
> > Better still to help out idiots like Davey, why not just call
> > it Genoa?
> >
> > I shudder to think what's gonna happen if the Tour gets anywhere near
> Livorno or Fiorenza
> >
> > --
> > le Vent a Dos Davey Crockett Six-Day site: http://members.rogers.com/-
> > sixday/sixday.htmlhttp://members.rogers.com/sixday/sixday.html
> Are you just trying to be funny since you just now noticed that English
> speakers often change the spelling and pronunciation of foreign (to
> them) names and locations?



I blame the French. They change the name of Spanish and Italian cities
and then English adopts the French spelling - Seville, Florence, et al.



--

Carl Sundquist

"DiabloScott" <NOSPAMdiabloscott@terra.es> wrote in message
>
> I blame the French. They change the name of Spanish and Italian cities
> and then English adopts the French spelling - Seville, Florence, et al.
>

Of course the Italians are innocent when they refer to Paris as Parigi.

Ewoud Dronkert

On Thursday 06 May 2004 03:27, Carl Sundquist wrote:
> Of course the Italians are innocent when they refer to Paris as Parigi.

Yes, starting place of the famous bicycle race Parigi-Nizza.

Davey Crockett

"Carl Sundquist" <carlsun@cox-internet.com> writes:

> "DiabloScott" <NOSPAMdiabloscott@terra.es> wrote in message
>>
>> I blame the French. They change the name of Spanish and Italian cities
>> and then English adopts the French spelling - Seville, Florence, et al.
>>
>
> Of course the Italians are innocent when they refer to Paris as Parigi.
>
>

And how is this for the GrandDaddy of them all perpetrated on the World at Large by the CisAlpine Gauls?

Monaco di Baviera


Munich/Munchen if you can believe it!!

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le Vent a Dos
Davey Crockett
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TritonRider

>From: Davey Crockett Davey_Crockett@rogers.com

>Munich/Munchen if you can believe it!!
>
>--
>le Vent a Dos
>Davey Crockett

I'd been thinking about that one since this started, and I'd bet Kyle who's
probably getting about by train, because it's easy and sensible is really
concious of having to switch back and forth if he even bothers. We gave up on
the english language maps pretty quickly. Bought a major German atlas, and
stocked up on local stuff every trip. Got a drawer full of Stadtplan. It really
is easier that way, or at least it was for us. Now I really have to think to
anglicize a lot of the names to people here.
Koln could be tough to get without any other clues.
Bill C

Kyle Legate

TritonRider wrote:
>> From: Davey Crockett Davey_Crockett@rogers.com
>
>> Munich/Munchen if you can believe it!!
>>
>> --
>> le Vent a Dos
>> Davey Crockett
>
> I'd been thinking about that one since this started, and I'd bet
> Kyle who's probably getting about by train, because it's easy and
> sensible is really concious of having to switch back and forth if he
> even bothers. We gave up on the english language maps pretty quickly.
>
Yes, they are rather useless around here. I've been getting by mostly by
guessing; after all, with a little imagination city names really aren't
significantly different sounding from each other in other languages (Monaco
di Baviera notwithstanding). Maylan, for example, or Chania.

Steve McGinty

On Wed, 05 May 2004 07:26:06 +1200, Stewart Fleming
<stewart.fleming@paradise.net.nz> wrote:

>
>
>Davey Crockett wrote:
>> So where the heck is Genova?
>>
>> Granted, it IS the Giro d'Italia and far be it from me to forbid anyone to use their native language to define start/finish/intermediate points for their National Tour.
>>
>> But what about all those Wannabe Wankers previewing the Tour of Gallia Cisalpina? Have they no thought for the millions of Anglophonic Uni-Lingualists who bought their map where they buy their Slurpies only to discover that Genova is nowhere to be found?
>>
>> Is it Genova Voltri? Or Genes (Where Jeans come from) or some other place?
>>
>> Better still to help out idiots like Davey, why not just call it Genoa?
>>
>> I shudder to think what's gonna happen if the Tour gets anywhere near Livorno or Fiorenza
>
>Dammit, they should just call it the Tour of Italy and be done with it.
>Back in Glasgow, "Have you seen the Giro?" was an altogether different
>question concerning welfare benefits.

Q. What's green and gets you drunk?

A. A Giro

Regards!
Stephen