The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[payn]

Access to good Pho is probably highly regional. You can find quality examples of just about any sort of food here in the Bay Area, other places aren't lucky.

There is a good 8 mile run of Pho shops in St Paul. Fun fact, the movie Gran Torino originally was set here in the Twin Cities, but was moved to Detroit for the film.

One shop has a two gallon bowl that if you can finish it in a certain timeframe its free with a T-shirt that says "Pho-King"

 

[Guest 7034872]

There is a good 8 mile run of Pho shops in St Paul. Fun fact, the movie Gran Torino originally was set here in the Twin Cities, but was moved to Detroit for the film.

One shop has a two gallon bowl that if you can finish it in a certain timeframe its free with a T-shirt that says "Pho-King"

Ooo...careful pronunciation is gonna be big on that one.

 

[Cadence]

floccinaucinihilipificatiousness

 

[RealAlHazred]

Remember, "pho" is pronounced "fa".

No, really!

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Remember, "pho" is pronounced "fa".

No, really!

Yeah, I never understood why stuff like that happens in translation. If we're taking another language's words and translating them to English, wouldn't it make sense to just write them how they sound, instead of whatever ungodly process went into making it spelled "P H O"?

 

[prabe]

Yeah, I never understood why stuff like that happens in translation. If we're taking another language's words and translating them to English, wouldn't it make sense to just write them how they sound, instead of whatever ungodly process went into making it spelled "P H O"?

Gaelic would like a word ...

(The fact Vietnam was a French colony may be part of the specific answer to your specific question.)

 

[trappedslider]

Ooo...careful pronunciation is gonna be big on that one.

I tried five different clips of this scene from The Gentlemen all of them had to view on other sites disabled.

His name is Phuc, but it's spelled with a "Ph," so it sounds like "fu-uck."

So it's Phu-uc?

What? Yeah, something like that.

Anyway, he's the kid that gave us the skunk farm job. Do you know him?

Yeah, we've met before, haven't we, Phu-uc... Phuc?

That's the one. Phu-uc?

Phuc. Phuc.

 

[Cadence]

"When you really want a good cake, why would you turn to a professionally trained baker when you can get one from a plumber who has a food blog on the side? All those pro bakers are just biased into doing the same old thing and don't have the mental flexibility of plumbers, and are the kind of people who leave the negative feedback to the food blog."

 

[niklinna]

Remember, "pho" is pronounced "fa".

No, really!

"Fa" like in "ha"? I thought it was "fuh" like in "huh"!

 

[payn]

I tried five different clips of this scene from The Gentlemen all of them had to view on other sites disabled.

His name is Phuc, but it's spelled with a "Ph," so it sounds like "fu-uck."

So it's Phu-uc?

What? Yeah, something like that.

Anyway, he's the kid that gave us the skunk farm job. Do you know him?

Yeah, we've met before, haven't we, Phu-uc... Phuc?

That's the one. Phu-uc?

Phuc. Phuc.

I went to high school with a guy named Phuc Vu. He changed it to Vince or Bob Vu at some point.