Re: The Hendry Comeback
- shanew48
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shanew48 wrote:I mean, Hendry will have to study a DVD of the match to ascertain where it all went wrong and what he needs to do to improve.
chengdufan wrote:shanew48 wrote:I mean, Hendry will have to study a DVD of the match to ascertain where it all went wrong and what he needs to do to improve.
A DVD!
Wow, proper old school. Do people still have DVD players?
SnookerFan wrote:chengdufan wrote:shanew48 wrote:I mean, Hendry will have to study a DVD of the match to ascertain where it all went wrong and what he needs to do to improve.
A DVD!
Wow, proper old school. Do people still have DVD players?
I do.
And I still buy DVDs.
SnookerFan wrote:You can't expect him to be as great as he was in the 1990s. Even if it was possible at his age, he hadn't played for nine years. He would struggle in on first coming back.
Hendry's mistake was not being active enough To have any chance of having a good run at The Crucible he needed to have played more, just for the practice. He'd had one match against Selt pre-Crucible. Why not play more?
Wildey wrote:SnookerFan wrote:You can't expect him to be as great as he was in the 1990s. Even if it was possible at his age, he hadn't played for nine years. He would struggle in on first coming back.
Hendry's mistake was not being active enough To have any chance of having a good run at The Crucible he needed to have played more, just for the practice. He'd had one match against Selt pre-Crucible. Why not play more?
Crowds simple as that Stephen Thought by the UK Crowds would be back he described Even playing at the Crucible in seniors playing in a empty room and very flat.
chengdufan wrote:LDS wrote:Zoo See, I would presume.
Neither of these pronunciations exist in Chinese.
Zoo is actually one of the most difficult words for English language learners here to pronounce. It's very rare to meet a Chinese person who can say 'zoo' intelligibly. Even relatively high level speakers.
'see' is an easier word for Chinese speakers as both the 's' and 'ee' sounds exist in Chinese. Never in combination though.
chengdufan wrote:HappyCamper wrote:Si is like 'sea' .
Wouldn't have expected you to make such a basic error HC
Dan-cat wrote:...and people laugh when you pronounce their names badly in European countries.
LDS: SCANDALIZED!
LDS wrote:chengdufan wrote:LDS wrote:Zoo See, I would presume.
Neither of these pronunciations exist in Chinese.
Zoo is actually one of the most difficult words for English language learners here to pronounce. It's very rare to meet a Chinese person who can say 'zoo' intelligibly. Even relatively high level speakers.
'see' is an easier word for Chinese speakers as both the 's' and 'ee' sounds exist in Chinese. Never in combination though.
I have no idea why you find this funny. You seem to be aware that different countries have different sounds that are more complicated. Whenever words are used by foreign country citizens they always sound a bit different to how they do locally - ie: regional accents.
That's how even just in Europe very common names become slightly different names as you travel relatively small distances - Carlos and Charles are actually the same name, for example.
I should think most people call Graeme Dott Graham, and it's no big deal, it's expected. In English, if a word starts with an X then it is pronounced with a Z sound, as in Xylophone. If you find it funny that people use the correct pronunciation because the intent was for a different sound then the problem lies at the moment when the conversion to English lettering occurred, not with the resultant pronunciations.
SnookerFan wrote:Dan-cat wrote:...and people laugh when you pronounce their names badly in European countries.
LDS: SCANDALIZED!
Whilst we're on the subject, wouldn't it be spelled "scandalised" in the UK?
Dan-cat wrote:SnookerFan wrote:Dan-cat wrote:...and people laugh when you pronounce their names badly in European countries.
LDS: SCANDALIZED!
Whilst we're on the subject, wouldn't it be spelled "scandalised" in the UK?
Yes, but we are not in the UK, we are on the internet, where Americanized spellings rule.
Are you SCANDALIZED at my US spelling?
Dan-cat wrote:SnookerFan wrote:Dan-cat wrote:...and people laugh when you pronounce their names badly in European countries.
LDS: SCANDALIZED!
Whilst we're on the subject, wouldn't it be spelled "scandalised" in the UK?
Yes, but we are not in the UK, we are on the internet, where Americanized spellings rule.
Are you SCANDALIZED at my US spelling?
Wildey wrote:SnookerFan wrote:You can't expect him to be as great as he was in the 1990s. Even if it was possible at his age, he hadn't played for nine years. He would struggle in on first coming back.
Hendry's mistake was not being active enough To have any chance of having a good run at The Crucible he needed to have played more, just for the practice. He'd had one match against Selt pre-Crucible. Why not play more?
Crowds simple as that Stephen Thought by the UK Crowds would be back he described Even playing at the Crucible in seniors playing in a empty room and very flat.
Iranu wrote:Wildey wrote:SnookerFan wrote:You can't expect him to be as great as he was in the 1990s. Even if it was possible at his age, he hadn't played for nine years. He would struggle in on first coming back.
Hendry's mistake was not being active enough To have any chance of having a good run at The Crucible he needed to have played more, just for the practice. He'd had one match against Selt pre-Crucible. Why not play more?
Crowds simple as that Stephen Thought by the UK Crowds would be back he described Even playing at the Crucible in seniors playing in a empty room and very flat.
I think crowds was a bit of an excuse to be honest. Not that he was totally lying but I think Hendry realised he wasn’t ready for matches and the lack of crowds gave him an easy out.
Dan-cat wrote:Yeah I thought that too...
SnookerFan wrote:Iranu wrote:Wildey wrote:SnookerFan wrote:You can't expect him to be as great as he was in the 1990s. Even if it was possible at his age, he hadn't played for nine years. He would struggle in on first coming back.
Hendry's mistake was not being active enough To have any chance of having a good run at The Crucible he needed to have played more, just for the practice. He'd had one match against Selt pre-Crucible. Why not play more?
Crowds simple as that Stephen Thought by the UK Crowds would be back he described Even playing at the Crucible in seniors playing in a empty room and very flat.
I think crowds was a bit of an excuse to be honest. Not that he was totally lying but I think Hendry realised he wasn’t ready for matches and the lack of crowds gave him an easy out.
Didn't he announce his comeback just after The Seniors in 2020? I mean, by that point several ranking events had been postponed due to the coronavirus, and when they were rescheduled the majority of them had 0 fans. (And the attempt to have them in at The Crucible was a bit of a cock-up, let's be honest.)
Surely he knew when he announced his comeback there was at least a chance he'd have to perform in an empty room.
Like you, I'm not saying he was lying or making excuses. But you can't tell me he didn't know that there was a risk of having no fans all season. How surprising was it for him?
chengdufan wrote:LDS wrote:chengdufan wrote:LDS wrote:Zoo See, I would presume.
Neither of these pronunciations exist in Chinese.
Zoo is actually one of the most difficult words for English language learners here to pronounce. It's very rare to meet a Chinese person who can say 'zoo' intelligibly. Even relatively high level speakers.
'see' is an easier word for Chinese speakers as both the 's' and 'ee' sounds exist in Chinese. Never in combination though.
I have no idea why you find this funny. You seem to be aware that different countries have different sounds that are more complicated. Whenever words are used by foreign country citizens they always sound a bit different to how they do locally - ie: regional accents.
That's how even just in Europe very common names become slightly different names as you travel relatively small distances - Carlos and Charles are actually the same name, for example.
I should think most people call Graeme Dott Graham, and it's no big deal, it's expected. In English, if a word starts with an X then it is pronounced with a Z sound, as in Xylophone. If you find it funny that people use the correct pronunciation because the intent was for a different sound then the problem lies at the moment when the conversion to English lettering occurred, not with the resultant pronunciations.
What I found funny was that someone asked for some info and you replied despite having no knowledge of the subject. Your guess was so far from being accurate, it caused me to chuckle!
Prop wrote:AMERICANIZED
Dan-cat wrote:If you knew Xu Si, like I knew Xu SI
Oh! Oh! Oh! What a guy
There's none so classy
As this fair laddie
Dan-cat wrote:This thread has gone well Mexico.