Personally, I’ve always pronounced it “Yill-in-hooly,” so I feel ahead of the curve.
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FIRSTTTTTTTUJ!
How many video game movies are they gonna make before they get the hint that they all suck???
Well, Excuuuuuse me, Rando!
I beg to differ.
A Legend of Zelda movie would kick total ass and you know it.
Correction: A Legend of Zelda movie *done right* would kick total @$$ and you know it. And I would be one of the first in line to see the thing at a midnight showing.
Except for the fact that whenever they give Link a personality he’s a womanizing douche :/
Key words “done right,” and there’s little chance of that happening. Big movie companies don’t want to put any effort into video game movies. That’s one reason the Halo movie got the axe.
Plus as long as Uwe Boll is alive, I’d be afraid he’d get his hands on it and that’s just SICK.
God, I wish. But I’d be afraid someone would screw it up. I doubt Nintendo and Mayamoto (sp?) would ever let it happen.
Iylen-hoola-hay!
never again will I pronounce it ‘Jill-en-hall’!
Boba pronounces it “dead man”!
The name i Swedish and yes, it *does* mean “Golden hole”. Although it’s unlikely that the meaning of “haal” actually started out as being “hole”. It might have been “hall” or “hal” (which means slippery).
Anyhow, Goldenhole seems a good name. At least for Maggie. *Badabom*
Golden hole?
Yes. Golden hole. Anything unclear?
Two a’s in English spell å, which makes haal = hål = hole.
No, two a’s in English don’t spell å. A double a in old Swedish is written as å nowadays in Swedish. Gyllenhaal would be the old Swedish spelling nowadays written as Gyllenhål. That said, people frequently don’t modernize the spelling of a last name and there are even some given names in Swedish that are sometimes written the old way, depending on how the parents wanted it spelled. In almost all place names, “aa” has been replaced with “å” with modernization of spelling.
Gyllenhaal is the same thing as Gyllenhål which means “golden hole.” However, it might originally have been “Gyllenhall” meaning “golden hall.” A lot of spellings were garbled during immigration, especially by Ellis Island. My grandmother and my great uncle were both “Jansson” in Sweden and somehow they became “Johnson” thanks to Ellis Island.
Can you spell “racefail”?
Since when is “hål” spelled “haal”, Mr. Obvious?
Well, since they don’t have our “å ä ö”, “å” is often written “aa”, with the same pronounciation. In the same way “ä” is “ae” and “ö” is “oe”. See “Goebbels” and “Göbbels”.
Although if I were to guess, I would have said the name was Dutch…
Huh, seems like it was a swedish name.
Comes from a noble family that started with the lieutenant Nils Haal, who was ennobled.
Since medieval times, Nautique.
The former double “a” in Swedish is nowadays written with the single letter “å”. The only time you see the “aa” written out in modern times is in some place names, some given names, and some family names or surnames.
Thus, the old spelling “Gyllenhaal” can be seen nowadays in Sweden as “Gyllenhål.” I have a cousin in Sweden whose first name is Håkan, but I have met some other Swedes who still spill it Haakan, the old way. Danish and Norwegian have done the same thing with the old double-a — they use “å” nowadays instead. But the name of the former Norwegian King Haakon is still spelled the old way, even though most Swedes, Norwegians and Danes named Håkan now spell it using the a with the little ring over it.
How can it be hard to pronounce? Maybe it’s because I’m Scandinavian, where it’s an actual word
well almost. In Danish I guess it would be Gyldenhal but I would guess the word is Swedish because they spell golden ‘gyllen’.
It’s funny how it’s so hard to spell for non-Scandinavians
Yes, yes it is because you’re across the sea(as in the Baltic one)… I can -get- the meaning by reading the word because I know the basics… but saying it out loud kills my tongue… almost as badly as anything Japanese or Chinese does.
it’s also no problem for germans…
well, as long as they’re not retarded or something, but that’s no culture thing.
Well if the name is Swedish(as people here say) then he can’t pronounce it himself either because that sure as hell isn’t how it would be pronounced here.
dude, he’s JOKING
It’d be easier if they hadn’t gotten fancy with the spelling. My history teacher/coach had the brains to have it changed to Gillen-Hall.
Jake Gyllenhaal is a pretty good troll. ^_^
Obviously he’s joking, I’m Swedish and there is no way I would pronounce it like that, or any other swede for that matter. Or maybe he’s just gotten it wrong.
i pronounce it ‘sexy’
then ur prolly stupid..
Those are some pretty…northern European looking Persians…I guess the casting director figured Persian looking actors couldn’t act…how strange.
it actually looks like a dutch name to
Whatever, he has a hot sister!
Sorry to drag the conversation back a couple notches, but I want to see a ‘Hello Kitty’ movie!! Hell yes!!