Sorry if this offens anyone

This is TOTALLY out in left field, but doesn't Tartaglia sound kind of Italian?

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The only thing that offends me is that you misspelled it in the subject title.

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Musetta not commenting on my spelling this time though! I must have done something right! Love yea hun

I didn't comment; I just edited the subject header!

could have said ethnicity (sp?)

LUV the J-Tart!

The G is DEFINITELY pronounced.

It is said Tar-TAG-LEE-UH.

Edit: And yes, just for further clarification John is indeed Italian.

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Updated On: 10/4/04 at 07:47 PM

"More importantly, is the "G" pronounced - as in "Tar-TAG-lee-uh", or silent, as in "Tar-TALL-yuh"? (or "imbroglio" or "filet mignon"?"

On the Tonys website, there's a little clip on John being interviewed right after Q won Best Musical. The guy who's doing the interview doesn't pronounce the "G." It makes me SO angry.

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Updated On: 10/4/04 at 08:16 PM

Actually when he did his Cabaret at Joe's Pub he did mention how people always pronounce his name wrong, so he does pick it up.

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As a fellow Italian whose name is also Americanized in a very similar fashion, yes that would be closer to the original pronunciation but it is Americanized. With my last name, people do the same thing they do to his, they say it the Italian way and then you have to correct them and explain its the Americanized way that you use. For example, mine has a "CC" in it which we say as an "S" which is American, but Italians say it as a "ch" so it throws people off all the time. That's probably why so many people don't say the G when they say his name, even though the way he pronounces it the G is said.

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