With all this talk of Retina....

[KirkT]

is is pronounced rĕt'nə, as in your eye

or, like I hear most people speak it, rĕ'tēnə like, well, rĕ-Tina Yothers

Tina doesn't make sense to me. I've heard people tell me its German it just seems weird that it's a camera, like an eye, spelled just like something in your eye, but, oh...we'll pronounce it different.

if you can solve this than we can start to talk about the difference between beemer (motorcycle) and bimmer (car) and how to pronounce each (each, apparently coming from Germany as well).

[martolod]

if you can solve this than we can start to talk about the difference between beemer (motorcycle) and bimmer (car) and how to pronounce each (each, apparently coming from Germany as well).

vell,ve vill shtart with ze qwestion about ze Retina....is prrronounced 'Retina' in Tscherman, shoust like ze Retina of ze Eye, ja, und az far az ze car und ze Motorbike iz koncerned....vell...zat is shust how you Amerrikans prronounce it wiz your fonny vay of shpeeking....:nana:

[KirkT]

now we have a german version of ed here?  

[martolod]

now we have a german version of ed here?  

the scary thing is after living in the fatherland for 10 years and then coming back home to australia, i did speak just like that for about a year ; nowadays my brouge is as ocker as it comes.....occasionally i shlip into tscherman....usually when i am very tired.

[Dean Williams]

I don't know how it's officially pronounced.  I've always said it the Tina way.  It may not matter at all how the Germans said it.  If Kodak marketed it a certain way, that is how it's said.

[sandeha]

Marketing rules !!  

Oh why, oh why did I sell my Retainer.

[Glenn Thoreson]

vell,ve vill shtart with ze qwestion about ze Retina....is prrronounced 'Retina' in Tscherman, shoust like ze Retina of ze Eye, ja, und az far az ze car und ze Motorbike iz koncerned....vell...zat is shust how you Amerrikans prronounce it wiz your fonny vay of shpeeking....:nana:

Huh? I can read readin' and I can read writin' but I can't read readin' when the writin's writ wrotten. :Jig:

[martolod]

I don't know how it's officially pronounced.  I've always said it the Tina way.  It may not matter at all how the Germans said it.  If Kodak marketed it a certain way, that is how it's said.

'Sometimes a Camera is just a Camera' - Sigmung Freud

[Wayne]

I have only ever thought of pronouncing it like the retina in your eye, but I rarely talk to people in the real word about cameras so have probably never spoken it aloud nor heard it spoken... now that you mention it Re-tina does have a nice ring to it.

Over here BMW bikes or cars are always "Beemer" or "bee em double you". "Bimmer" almost sounds like a Cockney thing to me. I guess in Cherman they are "bay em vay".

[mdcarma]

Over here we just say,
 "BMW"  Bring More Wallet.

[melek]

It never occurred to me that it would be pronounced as anything but retina (like the part of an eye) until I was in a photo store and the woman behind the counter said "reh-TEENA."

[martolod]

"reh-TEENA."

i just coughed and spluttered all over me keyboard and screen:2yippee:

[Glenn Thoreson]

Hmmmmmmmmmmm........ "You say potahto, I say potayto". :2yippee: