to butcher a name

[AndrasBP]

Hello,

I've always liked the English expression 'to butcher someone's name', meaning to pronounce it really badly, because it's foreign, unusual, long, etc.

I don't think we have an equivalent phrase in Hungarian.

What about your language?

 

[Olaszinhok]

In Italian: Storpiare un nome - also to distort, to mangle

 

[alfaalfa]

Ciao

In Italian: Storpiare un nome

Fun fact: I often hear stroppiare (wrong) instead of storpiare. So, they butcher the right word that means to butcher.

 

[Olaszinhok]

I often hear stroppiare (wrong) instead of storpiare

So do I. We should live in the same region, after all.
I have actually found out that stroppiare is a sub-standard variety of storpiare.
stroppiare in Vocabolario - Treccani

 

[jazyk]

Estropiar um nome in Portuguese.

 

[Nanon]

Estropier un nom or massacrer un nom in French.

 

[TheCrociato91]

Fun fact: I often hear stroppiare (wrong) instead of storpiare. So, they butcher the right word that means to butcher.

Interesting. I've never heard stroppiare except in the proverb "il troppo stroppia", which, coincidentally, some people say as "il troppo storpia".

 

[AndrasBP]

Thank you for your replies.

Fun fact: I often hear stroppiare (wrong) instead of storpiare.

Estropier un nom

According to Le Robert, the French verb is a 16th century loan from Italian 'stroppiare', so the 'wrong' Italian form must have been around for centuries.

massacrer un nom in French.

That sounds even more brutal than 'butcher' in English.

 

[jekoh]

In French, écorcher un nom is a lot more common than massacrer or estropier.

 

[Nanon]

In French, écorcher un nom is a lot more common than massacrer or estropier.

But it is milder...

 

[Perseas]

Greek:
the verb κατακρεουργώ [katakreurγó] is a loan translation from Fr. massacrer or Eng. butcher.
κατακρεουργώ ένα όνομα = I butcher a name.

More colloquial is "σκοτώνω" [skotóno], which means "to kill".
Το σκότωσες! --> You killed it! (it: a name, a word, a phrase...)

 

[Encolpius]

Hello,
I've always liked the English expression 'to butcher someone's name', meaning to pronounce it really badly, because it's foreign, unusual, long, etc.
I don't think we have an equivalent phrase in Hungarian.

Hello, what do you mean by equivalent phrase?