“Idiots in tennessee”

#77
#77
LucidZ said:
His name has been sort of mispronounced in his first two years here, with a stronger stress on CO. Even though it's written as Véscovi. His full name being Santiago Véscovi Vannet. I believe our brains usually break down words into syllables based on the loudness of vowels. It's a three syllable name with 3 vowels, E-O-I. So you're going to hear the vowels pretty prominently. If you get a chance to watch the commentators say it again, they place the stress at the end. Even sounded to me like they were saying ves-ska-VEE.
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As many times as I listen to Vescovi himself say it in the clip, though, I can only hear ves-CO-vi, not VES-co-vi or ves-co-VI. Do you really hear VES-co-vi in the clip that Unconditional Surrender posted?
 
#78
#78
DuckInAPen said:
As many times as I listen to Vescovi himself say it in the clip, though, I can only hear ves-CO-vi, not VES-co-vi or ves-co-VI. Do you really hear VES-co-vi in the clip that Unconditional Surrender posted?
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I do. It sounds longer than co-vi. I'm not fluent, but I studied Spanish. The accent mark é is very common and can tell you right away how a word is pronounced. The O and I sound the same to me in loudness.
 
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#83
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He should have prefaced before the game maybe when they were announcing starting lineups. Hey guys just got some info Vescovi’s name has been mis-pronounced since he’s been here. It supposed to be Ves kuh vee. So folks jump on board but no he went blindly into and expected everyone to just accept . IMO he is the idiot.
 
#84
#84
I am sure he said it like he thought it was shared to him, but the issue may well be his hearing issues and his recall abilities. Both of those conditions can be complicated by runaway self confidence in one's perfection.

I am hoping for someone with some technical strengths to retain clips of this dudes on air version and a clip of Santi saying it so we can compare the two for the only real resolution. I will take no position until then.
 
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He also said Vescovi’s first game was against Missouri where he had 10 turnovers. First of all I’m pretty sure it was LSU, anyone confirm? The main point here is that the key to his first game was 6-7 made 3-pt shots. It was a VERY impressive debut but Frann emphasized the wrong thing about his first game as a Vol….maybe like he might be emphasizing the wrong part of his name.
 
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1Big_Orange_Fan said:
He also said Vescovi’s first game was against Missouri where he had 10 turnovers. First of all I’m pretty sure it was LSU, anyone confirm? The main point here is that the key to his first game was 6-7 made 3-pt shots. It was a VERY impressive debut but Frann emphasized the wrong thing about his first game as a Vol….maybe like he might be emphasizing the wrong part of his name.
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Yes. It was LSU.

Santiago Vescovi 2019-20 Game Log | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com
 
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1Big_Orange_Fan said:
He also said Vescovi’s first game was against Missouri where he had 10 turnovers. First of all I’m pretty sure it was LSU, anyone confirm? The main point here is that the key to his first game was 6-7 made 3-pt shots. It was a VERY impressive debut but Frann emphasized the wrong thing about his first game as a Vol….maybe like he might be emphasizing the wrong part of his name.
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I was thinking the exact same thing when he said that. The guy is straight off the plane from Uruguay and lights it up from 3 against LSU, and all he says is that he had turnovers?
 
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keenobserver said:
It's GuaranTAN o, not GuaranTONo
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Well, I’m Italian and always seemed to me that it should be GuaranTONo, kind of like Positano. GuaranTANo kind of sounds like a Jersey thing, although I’m not gonna tell a guy how to pronounce his own name.
 
#98
#98
Vescovi isn't difficult to pronounce.
The emphasis is on the second syllable.
Class dismissed.
 
#100
#100
Vol49er said:
He was referring to the people tweeting him about him saying Vescovi’s name wrong, even though he is not. He shouldn’t say that but he did not call Tennessee fans as a whole “idiots”. Let’s try and not be so easily offended
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Football, I could see it. At most, he needed to know 18 or so names for two hours. It's crazy he was so wrong about the pronunciation and continued to be throughout the whole game.
 
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