Please forgive my ignorance, but how do you pronounce Hodów?
Hodoof if it where spelled in English. V is probably the correct letter to use for W instead of F but its sounds closer to F when pronounced
Battle of Hodów: When 400 Poles repelled 40,000 Tatars in 1694
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#12As a Polish guy - I would not trust a single thing shown in the national propagandist TVP television. It's really weird to see this on Hacker News.
Curious why you think HN is such a bastion of truth and reason to be honest ? Look at the super conductor news a few weeks back. More people bought it than I imagined they would.
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#13Please forgive my ignorance, but how do you pronounce Hodów?
You can use google translate - it pronounces it correctly - https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=hod%C3%B3w&...
That’s a rarity. Wikipedia sometimes has IPA pronunciations and even – once in a blue moon – audio snippets that I trust far more when I don’t know the language.
YouTube has content farms that produce 30s clips for “how to pronounce ”. YT used to be a good option before the content farms took over, now I hear some ridiculous pronunciations just for the sake of the clicks and the ad views and can’t recommend it any more.
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#14Please forgive my ignorance, but how do you pronounce Hodów?
For additional context, Polish words are always pronounced with emphasis on the second-to-last syllable.
So `HO-doof`.
Re: Battle of Hodów: When 400 Poles repelled 40,000 Tatars in 1694
#15As a Polish guy - I would not trust a single thing shown in the national propagandist TVP television. It's really weird to see this on Hacker News.
Curious why you think HN is such a bastion of truth and reason to be honest ? Look at the super conductor news a few weeks back. More people bought it than I imagined they would.
That... wasn't what the GP post was about?
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#16As a Polish guy - I would not trust a single thing shown in the national propagandist TVP television. It's really weird to see this on Hacker News.
Weirdly, this article appears to have large sections just copy/pasted from Wikipedia. That or someone updated the wiki entry to match the article.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can use google translate - it pronounces it correctly - https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=hod%C3%B3w&...
That’s a rarity. Wikipedia sometimes has IPA pronunciations and even – once in a blue moon – audio snippets that I trust far more when I don’t know the language. YouTube has content farms that produce 30s clips for “how to pronounce ”. YT used to be a good option before the content farms took over, now I hear some ridiculous pronunciations just for the sake of the clicks and the ad views and can’t recommend it any mo…
Polish is almost completely phonetic. You can put any polish word there and 99.99% of the time it will read it correctly.
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#18It sounds so implausible that it may as well be a pro-ukraine piece published on the BBC.
Re: Battle of Hodów: When 400 Poles repelled 40,000 Tatars in 1694
#19Please forgive my ignorance, but how do you pronounce Hodów?
Hodoof if it where spelled in English. V is probably the correct letter to use for W instead of F but its sounds closer to F when pronounced
You can also go to Cyrillic and then use the standard English transliteration: Hodów -> Ходув -> Khoduv.
Though it might also have been Годов -> Hodov, with the Г pronounced in the Ukrainian / Belarusian / Ruthenian way, as a throaty H. Seeing old Polish names through those languages is often a worthwhile enterprise.
EDIT: I forgot to do the obvious, and check the current name of the town: Годів - Hodiv - https://maps.app.goo.gl/h6zA61k6CNTAEf787. Here Г is pronounced as a throaty H.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can use google translate - it pronounces it correctly - https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=hod%C3%B3w&...
That’s a rarity. Wikipedia sometimes has IPA pronunciations and even – once in a blue moon – audio snippets that I trust far more when I don’t know the language. YouTube has content farms that produce 30s clips for “how to pronounce ”. YT used to be a good option before the content farms took over, now I hear some ridiculous pronunciations just for the sake of the clicks and the ad views and can’t recommend it any mo…
The accent is not great, but the pronounciation sounds good to me.