Dumb-ass question on Dell'Arte

klaatu

Is it pronounced Dell-Artay or Dell-Art? I've always used the former, but that would be an Italian pronunciation, and **** is French, so now I'm beginning to wonder.

Since I own one, I should at least be pronouncing it right, even if I can't play it right.

MichaelHorowitz

klaatu wrote:

Is it pronounced Dell-Artay or Dell-Art? I've always used the former, but that would be an Italian pronunciation, and **** is French, so now I'm beginning to wonder.

Since I own one, I should at least be pronouncing it right, even if I can't play it right.

It's Dell-Art

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dennis

isn't it dell artay?

it doesn't matter if alain is french... Dell Arte comes from comedia dell arte , a form of theater or something like that from italy..

in french we still say dell artAY, and in english as well as far as i know...

it's a borrowed pronounciation... in english there's also "faux pas" which is borrowed from fench... and it's pronounced the french way (foh pah) and not fox pass

klaatu

Sounds good to me, Denis. I had always assumed that for the very same reason - commedia dell'arte - but then heard someone recently pronounce it differently, and that started me wondering ...

klaatu

I went right to the source, **** himself. It's dell-artay.

MichaelHorowitz

cool...everyone I always spoke with said it dell-art. Now i Know!

Stackabones

Cool! I'd always wondered if it was like the commedia.

klaatu

The way I play it, it's like the commedia. Alain's guitars, however, are serious stuff. I was going to say serious shit, but I'm trying to clean up my act.

frater

Next time, could you please ask Cola how this is to be pronounced too?

klaatu

I think it's pronounced "Ar-too-dee-too percent sign twenty standee percent sign twenty ess-em dot jay peg," but I can't be entirely sure - it may be French.