Sorry if this offens anyone

[EponineThenardier]

Sorry if this offens anyone#0

Posted: 10/3/04 at 11:27pm

Whats John Tartaglia's national background? I've always wondered. Just curious. Thats all.

[luvtheEmcee]

re: Sorry if this offens anyone#1

Posted: 10/3/04 at 11:29pm

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

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[MargoChanning]

re: Sorry if this offens anyone#2

Posted: 10/3/04 at 11:38pm

Very Italian

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[Type_A_Tiff]

re: Sorry if this offens anyone#3

Posted: 10/3/04 at 11:48pm

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

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[Musetta1957]

re: Sorry if this offends anyone#4

Posted: 10/3/04 at 11:48pm

National background? American.

Ethnicity? Italian.

Learn the teminology, folks...

[EponineThenardier]

re: Sorry if this offends anyone#5

Posted: 10/3/04 at 11:49pm

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

[Chrysanthemum62001]

re: Sorry if this offends anyone#6

Posted: 10/3/04 at 11:52pm

::humms 'Everyone's A Little Bit Racist'::

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[Musetta1957]

re: Sorry if this offends anyone#7

Posted: 10/3/04 at 11:53pm

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

[BreakingTheCircle07]

re: Sorry if this offends anyone#8

Posted: 10/4/04 at 12:46am

Yikes you guys!

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[xluckystar2107x]

re: Sorry if this offends anyone#9

Posted: 10/4/04 at 12:27pm

could have said ethnicity (sp?)

[Albin]

re: Sorry if this offends anyone#10

Posted: 10/4/04 at 2:42pm

Why in heaven's name should your question offend anyone.
Just another example of p.c. run amuck!

[broadwayguy2]

re: Sorry if this offends anyone#11

Posted: 10/4/04 at 3:10pm

LUV the J-Tart!

[Jon]

re: Sorry if this offends anyone#12

Posted: 10/4/04 at 7:40pm

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

[bythesword84]

re: Sorry if this offends anyone#13

Posted: 10/4/04 at 7:47pm

The G is DEFINITELY pronounced.

It is said Tar-TAG-LEE-UH.

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

And hang on, when did you win the discus?

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

[mywonderwa11]

re: Sorry if this offends anyone#14

Posted: 10/4/04 at 8:14pm

John is my boyfriend

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[luvtheEmcee]

re: Sorry if this offends anyone#15

Posted: 10/4/04 at 8:16pm

"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.

A work of art is an invitation to love.

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

[EponineThenardier]

re: Sorry if this offends anyone#16

Posted: 10/4/04 at 8:39pm

And notice how John doesn't mention it or anything. So humle, loooove him

[bythesword84]

re: Sorry if this offends anyone#17

Posted: 10/4/04 at 8:57pm

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.

And hang on, when did you win the discus?

[LadyGuenevere]

re: Sorry if this offends anyone#18

Posted: 10/4/04 at 10:49pm

Isn't it that the Italian pronouncement would be "Tar-tall-yuh" with a small emphasis on the "G"? "Tar-TAG-lyuh" sounds too Americanized.

[bythesword84]

re: Sorry if this offends anyone#19

Posted: 10/4/04 at 11:00pm

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.

And hang on, when did you win the discus?