"I Will Not Read Your F---ing Script!"

[Sean Aaron]

Is that thing about it being pronounced "Doctor Soyse" accurate? I ask because it's Harlan Ellison.

Yes, Seuss rhymes with voice.

It does? I've never known anyone to pronounce it that way.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

I love that crotchety old bastard.

 

[ToddPence]

Hm, I'm wondering who he gave his very first script to when he was starting out.

The producer of the "Ripcord" TV series? I think that's his first-ever screenwriting credit.

 

[David cgc]

Is that thing about it being pronounced "Doctor Soyse" accurate? I ask because it's Harlan Ellison.

Yes, Seuss rhymes with voice.

Great, now I have a new linguistic quirk to be irritated by. And I'd just gotten over "decimated" (though it helps that I only had that one pointed out to me as part of the beginning of an unorganized campaign to reclaim the literal meaning of the word).

 

[Sean Aaron]

Great, now I have a new linguistic quirk to be irritated by.

I don't think so, mainly because I think Takeru is wrong. After all "Seussical the Musical" is meant to rhyme...

 

[Roger Wilco]

According to wikipedia he's right. However if Seuss really wanted his name to be pronounced as if he was German, than the rhyme with voice isn't really correct either, but I'm not sure this sound is used in English.

eta: if it's German, it should be pronounced similar to the way Zeus is pronounced imo.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

According to wikipedia he's right. However if Seuss really wanted his name to be pronounced as if he was German, than the rhyme with voice isn't really correct either, but I'm not sure this sound is used in English.

eta: if it's German, it should be pronounced similar to the way Zeus is pronounced imo.

Well it goes on to say:

Geisel switched to the anglicized pronunciation from German [ˈzɔʏs] because it "evoked a figure advantageous for an author of children’s books to be associated with—Mother Goose"[23] and because most people used this pronunciation.

So, happily, everyone's right!

 

[Sean Aaron]

So, happily, everyone's right!

I'm more right.

 

[Takeru]

I'm more right.

Well, I'm more right for the first few decades of his life.

Ultimately it doesn't matter that much, however ...

However if Seuss really wanted his name to be pronounced as if he was German, than the rhyme with voice isn't really correct either, ...

Eh? I am german and the "oice" in english voice is pronounced exactly the same as the "euss" in german Seuss.

eta: if it's German, it should be pronounced similar to the way Zeus is pronounced imo.

There's no difference, the german pronounciation of Zeus rhymes with voice, too. Zeus and Seuss in german are pronounced Tsoice (ts sound like in "he bets/gets" etc.) and Zoice respectively.

 

[Roger Wilco]

I disagree. But that might be me not speaking exactly standard German.

 

[Kelso]

Is that thing about it being pronounced "Doctor Soyse" accurate? I ask because it's Harlan Ellison.

Funny, I immediately assumed that Ellison was accurate and that every other person I have heard say the name was wrong.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

And that's the way the smart money bets.

Oh, and in related news, hilarity ensues:

Rejected movie script prompts Beverly Hills evacs

A movie script that had been rejected provoked a bomb scare in Beverly Hills Thursday afternoon.

Authorities responded after a briefcase was found in an alley at Rodeo Drive and Little Santa Monica Boulevard just before 10:30 a.m.

Parts of Beverly Hills were shut down for two hours and some businesses were evacuated as the bomb squad pulled a suspicious device from a literary agent's office.

Turns out it wasn't a real bomb, but a briefcase with a computer inside and a screenplay a man wanted the agent to read.

Beverly Hills police say the screenwriter won't be charged with a crime. They wouldn't reveal his name, but they say he's been asking this agent for some time to read his work and left the briefcase when the agent refused to read it.

"It's very difficult to start out," said screenwriter David Mead."Unless you've done something, they don't want to talk to you."

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Since when does a computer cost less than printing the damn thing out?

 

[Takeru]

I disagree. But that might be me not speaking exactly standard German.

Well, at least your dialect sounds awesome, just think about the poor people from Saxony.

But seriously, how do you pronounce Seuss or Zeus? Because I really can't imagine it not rhyming with voice.

 

[Sean Aaron]

Soos/Zoos.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Seuss and Zeus rhyme with Mother Goose.