Moleskine

[deauville]

Showing my ignorance again folks. I've never heard anyone pronounce this name yet and I always think of it as the skin of that little subterranean animal. But might it be pronounced moleskeen or molesk eye n.

 

Please, someone, put me out of my misery.

 

 

 

 

[MattN]

Thank you, THANK YOU for asking this question. It's been bugging me for ages.

[Conan the Grammarian]

 

According to the Web-site Moleskine US it's Moleskine (mol-a-skeen'-a).

 

[jmkeuning]

It depends how cool you are.

 

Cool people say it like the skin of that little subterranean animal.

 

Unless you are Italian and cool, and then you pronounce it with four syllables.

[AndyHayes]

Stick to MoleSkin and save yourself looking like a fool!!

[Italicist]

"But how many moles must give their lives for each of those black covers?" Italicist sobs incoherently (and winks).

[inkypete]

Stick to MoleSkin and save yourself looking like a fool!!

 

 

That's the answer.

[ethernautrix]

Unless you are Italian and cool, and then you pronounce it with four syllables.

 

 

Quotes Eddie Izzard: "Ciao!"

 

 

Anyway, I never knew that. I will continue to say it with two syllables, mole-skin.

 

If I try to change now, I will-a say eet laika zeeza: mola-skeena!

 

Nobody wants that.

[leprechaun]

Anyway, I never knew that. I will continue to say it with two syllables, mole-skin.

 

If I try to change now, I will-a say eet laika zeeza: mola-skeena!

 

Nobody wants that.

Obligatory Simpsons quote:

 

Luigi Risotto: I speak-a, how you say, fractured English. It's what my parents spoke at the home.

 

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Edited April 22, 2009 by leprechaun

[nigelg]

So should I pronounce the well-known soup as minny strony or myne strone.

 

Nigel

[thebeesknees]

My friends and I say mole-skeen. But I could be wrong.

[Phaedrus]

It's really all about the profanity that preceds the word "Moleskine".

 

 

 

 

[penswrite]

there are forces

somewhere

making

this

paper

 

 

it

they

are

not

maybe

devine

[deauville]

Stick to MoleSkin and save yourself looking like a fool!!

 

I don't care about looking like a fool - I care about being a fool.

 

 

 

[jpr]

Stick to MoleSkin and save yourself looking like a fool!!

 

I don't care about looking like a fool - I care about being a fool.

 

Good one. Pronounce it like the manufacturer says it should be pronounced- Mo-lah-skeen-ah.

[Chris]

Pretentious? Moi?

 

(To those who wonder, reference to Fawlty Towers)

 

Yup, it's Mole Skin for me, with or without preceding descriptor. Like my Mont Blonk pen.

 

Chris

[bardharlock]

Since they are made in China, I call them Mao Skin.

[penswrite]

Pretentious? Moi?

 

(To those who wonder, reference to Fawlty Towers)

 

Yup, it's Mole Skin for me, with or without preceding descriptor. Like my Mont Blonk pen.

 

Chris

 

Chris, I'm quite sure your pen is a Mount Blank; I'm less sure it comes from the same place where the little moles, with such nice skins, are killed. Err, harvested.

[ethernautrix]

Good one. Pronounce it like the manufacturer says it should be pronounced- Mo-lah-skeen-ah.

 

 

Then I'll have to insist that people stop calling the phenomenon known as carry-okie and start saying kah-RAH o-keh.

 

Or Knee-cone instead of Nigh-con.

 

For example.

[Aristarco]

I think because spanish and italian are romance languages, we pronounce it like this in México: mall-uh-skin-uh. Actually, we pronounce it like it is written: Moleskine, but to explain it written to an english audience, that'd be: Mall, uh (or in UK: er), skin, uh (UK: er). And, by the way, we also pronounce Karaoke as Kara (Kal-El's cousin) Oh Keh. But about Nikon, well, I've heard Knee-Con in comon people and Nigh-Con in people that think they're cool and know it all about photography.

I think everyone should pronounce it as it feels easier. And saying the thing about Mao Skin, sorry, I find it a bit racist, like when someone says all asian people look the same. And you can always call it Salsaskine. Mole is a kind of salsa (sauce) after all :ltcapd: