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6/12/2006 5:12:18 AM EDT
I've started a torrid love affair, over the internet of all places.
With the FAL.
Only problem is, when I finally meet one in person, I don't want to mispronounce her name.

Does it sound like -fall- or
Does it rhyme with -val- in valve or valentine?
Or do you just say the letters, F A L.
Or is it something else I haven't even figured out yet?
Help!
6/12/2006 5:38:41 AM EDT
[#1]
here we go again!  
it's FAL rhymes w/ gal!
no! you don't say ack47 do you?
you don't say ess eaux see eaux em do you?
6/12/2006 5:50:41 AM EDT
[#2]

Fewsill
owwtoemahteek
laygare




Bon
6/12/2006 7:34:20 AM EDT
[#3]
EFF
AAY
ELL

But that's just me....
6/12/2006 7:53:53 AM EDT
[#4]
F  A  L

fal

Fall


I've heard people say all of these.  And I use 'em all.
6/12/2006 8:10:01 AM EDT
[#5]
As in "Al Bundy"......only with an F in front of Al.
6/12/2006 9:06:26 AM EDT
[#6]
FAL like you pronounce Val.  That's what most countries in SouthAmerica pronounce it like anyways.



HUNTER.
6/12/2006 9:20:59 AM EDT
[#7]
My pal Val has a FAL.
6/12/2006 9:40:35 AM EDT
[#8]
The Belgians pronounce it "Fall".
6/12/2006 9:42:33 AM EDT
[#9]
Fusil Automatique Legere (Light automatic rifle)

Few sill auto mat eek lay jair

Or: eff ay ell
6/12/2006 12:23:58 PM EDT
[#10]
"FAL" is hardly descriptive enough anyways.Ya got your SLRs, your L1A1s, your FNs, your G1s, your Steyrs, your C1s, your Imbels...You want pronunciation? Try Dieudonne Saive on for size...
6/12/2006 12:34:50 PM EDT
[#11]


See, I bypassed the pronunciation issue by just getting an L1A1. Problem is, now people just say "what?"

so then I say "it's an SLR". Then they say "a who?"

"it's a self loading  rifle in .308"  "OH, OK. Cool."
6/12/2006 12:43:53 PM EDT
[#12]
Quoted:

See, I bypassed the pronunciation issue by just getting an L1A1. Problem is, now people just say "what?"

so then I say "it's an SLR". Then they say "a who?"

"it's a self loading  rifle in .308"  "OH, OK. Cool."
Ed Zachary!
6/12/2006 12:47:43 PM EDT
[#13]
There's no way I'm callin' it a FAL like pal or NebrAska without a lot more peer pressure.    

Although, I could go with "Fall".

I'll just keep calling it an eff ay el and avoid the whole acronym word issue.  

I can't see anyone in South America calling it a FAL like pal, since they can't even make this sound.  I know, 'cause my wife's from Cenral America and she cannot say NebrAska.  She can only say "Nebrawska".  
6/12/2006 12:52:24 PM EDT
[#14]
Quoted:
... I'll just keep calling it an eff ay el and avoid the whole acronym word issue...  


+1
6/12/2006 1:04:25 PM EDT
[#15]
Quoted:
There's no way I'm callin' it a FAL like pal or NebrAska without a lot more peer pressure.    

Although, I could go with "Fall".

I'll just keep calling it an eff ay el and avoid the whole acronym word issue.  

I can't see anyone in South America calling it a FAL like pal, since they can't even make this sound.  I know, 'cause my wife's from Cenral America and she cannot say NebrAska.  She can only say "Nebrawska".  


Believe me, south and central america are two DIFERENT areas.  As a matter of fact, spanish speakers actually pronounce letters the way they really sound whitout changing the way they should indeed sound.  FAL, well, down here that just sounds like PAL, GAL, VAL and so on and so on.

In spanish an A sounds like the first A of ALPHA, a F sounds like the first letter of FOXTROT  and a L sounds like the first letter of LIMA. (in that order because of alphabetic order)



HUNTER.
6/12/2006 1:37:37 PM EDT
[#16]
I had always heard it was pronoumced...

"Dirka - Dirka, Mohammed, Jihad!!"


BIGGER_HAMMER

6/12/2006 2:03:21 PM EDT
[#17]
ehfeh
aah
eleh

for you Spanish speakers...

apunte por favor esa arma otra direccion
6/12/2006 2:35:51 PM EDT
[#18]
Effn FAL
6/12/2006 5:23:23 PM EDT
[#19]
Quoted:
There's no way I'm callin' it a FAL like pal or NebrAska without a lot more peer pressure.    

Although, I could go with "Fall".

I'll just keep calling it an eff ay el and avoid the whole acronym word issue.  

I can't see anyone in South America calling it a FAL like pal, since they can't even make this sound.  I know, 'cause my wife's from Cenral America and she cannot say NebrAska.  She can only say "Nebrawska".  


The term FAL does not come from south America. It is French (which is spoken as the primary business language over Flemish, in Belgium, where the FAL was designed and first produced before licenses were handed out.


It stands for FN Fusil Automatique Légère (Fusil=rifle  Légère=light   Automatique=well you know)

So Light Automatic Rifle is FAL in a literal transalation.  In Belgian French FAL would be pronounce more  like "FAHL", than "Pal".  
6/12/2006 5:38:12 PM EDT
[#20]
I pronounce mine L 1 A 1  
6/12/2006 5:43:57 PM EDT
[#21]
F

A

L
6/12/2006 5:45:28 PM EDT
[#22]
I dont pronounce it as a word I use the letters might not be right but I dont care
F
A
L


like Heckler & Koch I say coke but if im saying it then it's to someone who knows about guns
and they will figure out what I mean
6/12/2006 6:22:28 PM EDT
[#23]
F N F A L.  Old Marines say it that way.  
6/13/2006 7:02:07 AM EDT
[#24]
Quoted:
Quoted:
There's no way I'm callin' it a FAL like pal or NebrAska without a lot more peer pressure.    

Although, I could go with "Fall".

I'll just keep calling it an eff ay el and avoid the whole acronym word issue.  

I can't see anyone in South America calling it a FAL like pal, since they can't even make this sound.  I know, 'cause my wife's from Cenral America and she cannot say NebrAska.  She can only say "Nebrawska".  


In spanish an A sounds like the first A of ALPHA

HUNTER.


It's not just me who say's you are wrong:  
The Spanish "a" is pronounced like the "a" in the word "father."

www.studyspanish.com/pronunciation/vowel_a.htm
A -- always pronounced ah, as in father
( Spanish example: gracias)

www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/6177/ws-pronun.html
6/13/2006 10:01:40 AM EDT
[#25]
Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
There's no way I'm callin' it a FAL like pal or NebrAska without a lot more peer pressure.    

Although, I could go with "Fall".

I'll just keep calling it an eff ay el and avoid the whole acronym word issue.  

I can't see anyone in South America calling it a FAL like pal, since they can't even make this sound.  I know, 'cause my wife's from Cenral America and she cannot say NebrAska.  She can only say "Nebrawska".  


In spanish an A sounds like the first A of ALPHA

HUNTER.


It's not just me who say's you are wrong:  
The Spanish "a" is pronounced like the "a" in the word "father."

www.studyspanish.com/pronunciation/vowel_a.htm
A -- always pronounced ah, as in father
( Spanish example: gracias)

www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/6177/ws-pronun.html



Man are you like for reals? i was born speaking spanish, i live in a country where 40 million people speak spanish, i speak spanish 24-7....are you trying to tell ME how to pronounce an A in spanish?
besides A in Father and in Alpha have the same sound.  


HUNTER.
6/13/2006 10:06:19 AM EDT
[#26]
besides A in Father and in Alpha have the same sound.

HUNTER.


If your refering to the first "A" in alpha, that would explain a lot.  
6/13/2006 10:07:40 AM EDT
[#27]
MonkeyGrip: You might want to think about arguing with Hunter - our resident Argentinian jefe - about how to speak Spanish.
6/13/2006 10:11:02 AM EDT
[#28]
Quoted:
besides A in Father and in Alpha have the same sound.

HUNTER.


I think this explains everything.  


FAL is not a spanish term!
6/13/2006 10:22:11 AM EDT
[#29]
Quoted:
besides A in Father and in Alpha have the same sound.

HUNTER.


I think this explains everything.  



It does, because OBVIOUSLY you didn't understand i meant IN SPANISH.


HUNTER.
6/13/2006 10:24:04 AM EDT
[#30]
Quoted:
Quoted:
besides A in Father and in Alpha have the same sound.

HUNTER.


I think this explains everything.  


FAL is not a spanish term!



We know. it just happen to be that in spanish that abreviation would work to.
Fusil Automatico Liviano.


HUNTER.
6/13/2006 10:34:57 AM EDT
[#31]
Oh Nevermind.  

I don't want to have to explain American phoenetics.  I have to do that with my Cost Rican wife too much already.  

And she likes to argue too.  

FAL = val = "a" like father?  
6/13/2006 11:03:02 AM EDT
[#32]
Quoted:
Oh Nevermind.  

I don't want to have to explain American phoenetics.  I have to do that with my Cost Rican wife too much already.  

And she likes to argue too.  

FAL = val = "a" like father?  



No need to explain American Phonetics (i think that's the word you were looking for), if i didn't speak english TOO this conversation wouldn't even be happening, thankfully i do.


HUNTER.
6/13/2006 11:23:39 AM EDT
[#33]
Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
besides A in Father and in Alpha have the same sound.

HUNTER.


I think this explains everything.  


FAL is not a spanish term!



We know. it just happen to be that in spanish that abreviation would work to.
Fusil Automatico Liviano.


HUNTER.


Well that is convenient!
6/13/2006 11:24:32 AM EDT
[#34]
We know. it just happen to be that in spanish that abreviation would work to.
Fusil Automatico Liviano.
HUNTER.


Yes, that works too.  I think that's the word you were looking for

Touche


Hot headed latins.  
6/13/2006 11:49:49 AM EDT
[#35]
Quoted:
We know. it just happen to be that in spanish that abreviation would work to.
Fusil Automatico Liviano.
HUNTER.


Yes, that works too.  I think that's the word you were looking for

Touche


Hot headed latins.  


LOL! good one, touche indeed.  The thing is i've only been speaking english for like 6 years, imagine what i could do if i had spoken it for the same time you have now.

What do you say if we call it even?



HUNTER.
6/13/2006 12:06:03 PM EDT
[#36]
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, 6 years.   Don't rub it in.  

Esta bien.  
6/14/2006 4:58:24 PM EDT
[#37]
Quoted:
The term FAL does not come from south America. It is French (which is spoken as the primary business language over Flemish, in Belgium, where the FAL was designed and first produced before licenses were handed out.


It stands for FN Fusil Automatique Légère (Fusil=rifle  Légère=light   Automatique=well you know)

So Light Automatic Rifle is FAL in a literal transalation.  In Belgian French FAL would be pronounce more  like "FAHL", than "Pal".  

Excellant post!

and the "Dutchman" (from NDL) that I work with, says "Flemish" is just Dutch for Belgians that don't want to admit to speaking Dutch.
6/14/2006 10:08:25 PM EDT
[#38]
I normally pronouce FAL as S L R
(as in L1A1 SLR)
6/14/2006 10:28:50 PM EDT
[#39]
Quoted:
I normally pronouce FAL as S L R
(as in L1A1 SLR)


I pronounce mine "Lithgow"
6/15/2006 11:49:55 PM EDT
[#40]
I just just pronounce it JUEPUTA - just like my Nicaraguan wifee calls me

Actually, FAL like pal is just fine with me. To say F-A-L letter by letter seems dumb. Too unnecessarily laborious.

I once met an old Cuban codger (now a staunch freedom-lovin Cuban-American) who fought alongside Castro until he found out the bastard went Red.
He stated he proudly carried a FAL - pronounced it fahl in strong Spanish. He swore one time he was close enough to take out Castro (with locked & loaded FAL) but just didn't have the balls at the moment.
Yes, FALs were active in the 1959 Cuban Revolution.
6/16/2006 7:56:01 AM EDT
[#41]
BTW while we're on the subject Imbel :  Im-bell

Not: Imble or Im-bul
6/16/2006 10:16:57 PM EDT
[#42]
F     N
6/17/2006 6:52:17 AM EDT
[#43]
Everyone I have ran into call it eff aye el.  FAL is actually a Clingon Acronym for:

F = Right Arm
A = of the
L = West
6/17/2006 9:13:13 AM EDT
[#44]
Quoted:
Everyone I have ran into call it eff aye el.  FAL is actually a Clingon Acronym for:

F = Right Arm
A = of the
L = West


Klingon is with a "K" - just like Klinton
6/17/2006 9:50:15 AM EDT
[#45]
It is pronounced FAG because that is what you are when you argue something like this on the internet.


6/18/2006 6:11:45 AM EDT
[#46]
FN

eff   nnnn
6/29/2006 5:38:52 PM EDT
[#47]
Just tell everyone that it's your BOOM-STICK and if anyone take up issue with it tell'em you have 308 reasons why you're right....... Would they care to discuss it any further!Just kidding! Giggle! Giggle!
6/29/2006 5:44:22 PM EDT
[#48]
Quoted:
Quoted:
The term FAL does not come from south America. It is French (which is spoken as the primary business language over Flemish, in Belgium, where the FAL was designed and first produced before licenses were handed out.


It stands for FN Fusil Automatique Légère (Fusil=rifle  Légère=light   Automatique=well you know)

So Light Automatic Rifle is FAL in a literal transalation.  In Belgian French FAL would be pronounce more  like "FAHL", than "Pal".  

Excellant post!

and the "Dutchman" (from NDL) that I work with, says "Flemish" is just Dutch for Belgians that don't want to admit to speaking Dutch.


Yeah...amazing no one mentioned it in the first dozen posts.
6/29/2006 6:52:16 PM EDT
[#49]
Quoted:
Excellant post!

and the "Dutchman" (from NDL) that I work with, says "Flemish" is just Dutch for Belgians that don't want to admit to speaking Dutch.


Flemish is a language?  Out of line commet has been edited.
6/30/2006 5:32:46 AM EDT
[#50]
Quoted:


I thought Flem is the stuff that comes out of ...................  


WTF-I'm no PC nazi but, can ya keep this clean or at least in the GD forum
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