AIBP (pretentious) to pronounce L'Occitane "LOCK SEE TAN"?

[MardyBra]

Especially when friends and family call it "LOCKY TAIN"?

The French of today do, because they are the folk who say Oui.

That's kind of the point....

So how the hell do you pronouns moet then?

and for the pretentious pedants amongst you, and the keen students of esoteria,

'Sub specie aeternitatis, from the Philosophical Dictionary,[1] Latin for "under the aspect of eternity"; hence, from Spinoza onwards, an honorific expression describing what is universally and eternally true, without any reference to or dependence upon the merely temporal portions of reality.
In clearer English, sub specie aeternitatis roughly means "from the perspective of the eternal". Even more loosely, the phrase is used to describe an alternative or objective point of view.'

You sound all lovely and warm and fluffy womma.

moet is mwet.

like mbop. but with wet.

Can i be a non pretentious pedant please? Please, please?

See, I don't really like Dutch it always sounds as if you are pronouncing some other nicer language a bit wrong.

ah, g'wan then!

Hey Perp

Not being told off Womma just questioned, you find it boring fine, sling your hook

off to have a bubble bath but its not occitane...

Burden we only have radox

I need to throw 'sub specie aeternitatis' into general conversation so I sound educated.

Boring, petty, smug and superior.

ah, don't worry womma, I'm sure the xmas spirit will bash it out of you.

Madame D

Happy memories of a lifetime away - before nappies, teething, school reports, child benefit, divorce and a zillion other wrangles, I used to think about this stuff and wrote about Spinoza as a post grad.........

I think it should be a topic on its own on MN (discussion of mum-jeans and bathroom tiles banned )

When I bought some from Space NK the assistant pronounced it 'losh eee tan'.

Confused

Lol at Locky Tain.

It's lox-ee-tahn.

And Moet is mwet.

thing is, occi will be pronounced in different ways according to regional variations in France, and unconsciously according to the mother tongue of the speaker.

So the space NK assistant may have come from a country where that would be the natural pronunciation.

Ohh are we describing ourselves in four words now, thanks for the challenge womma

I spent 5 years working as a studio floor manager for the much mentioned company that sells this product..

I can assure you with 100% certainty that it is pronounced 'Lock See Tan'

Promise!

I say loss-si- tan

I wouldn't know where to start

2Tinselly, you made Zombie waste a mouthful of wine. Thankfully it missed the keyboard.

Glad someone asked this as I had no idea how to pronounce it.

It looks like octane or aussie taine lol

Sorry Zombie