Sep 9
Mol-skinny?
Mol-Sky-n? Well I pointed my Shakespearean speaking arse at Google and typed in "define:moleskine". Man, was I way off base. Turns out it's an Italian word which loosely translated means, "cheap dollar store notebooks are beneath me." The correct pronunciation is: mol-a-SKEEN-a. You need to say it like your saying 'Spaghetti-an-ah-MEAT-balls'. Kind of sing-songy like. So please, if you are one of the throngs that has been saying mol-skin, stop it now. That includes you, lady at the bookstore, who I called the other day and who completely ignored my correct pronunciation. You knew what I was referring to but you didn't ask me why I said it differently, or question the fact that maybe YOU were saying it incorrectly. You just went right on saying mol-skin all matter-of-factly like. You say toe-may-toe, I say toe-mah-toe.
A Notebook By Any Other Name...
I may be coming late to this party and I might not even stay long, but I just purchased my first Moleskine notebook. Like many before me, I was pronouncing it 'mol-skin'. Then I said to thyself, "Self, why dost thou ignore the fact that thyne word endith in an 'e'? Should not this maketh the vowel long, as in 'eye'?"Mol-skinny?
Mol-Sky-n? Well I pointed my Shakespearean speaking arse at Google and typed in "define:moleskine". Man, was I way off base. Turns out it's an Italian word which loosely translated means, "cheap dollar store notebooks are beneath me." The correct pronunciation is: mol-a-SKEEN-a. You need to say it like your saying 'Spaghetti-an-ah-MEAT-balls'. Kind of sing-songy like. So please, if you are one of the throngs that has been saying mol-skin, stop it now. That includes you, lady at the bookstore, who I called the other day and who completely ignored my correct pronunciation. You knew what I was referring to but you didn't ask me why I said it differently, or question the fact that maybe YOU were saying it incorrectly. You just went right on saying mol-skin all matter-of-factly like. You say toe-may-toe, I say toe-mah-toe.
