Stupid question - how do you pronounce "FAL"?
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I've always spelled it out.
Like anything else you've got your spastics who like to make everything a word. For example, in the auto world the I've heard the rice-burner crowd refer to nitrous oxide as NOS. And they actually say it like "noss", apparently ignoring the fact that Nitrous Oxide Systems is a company, not a word.
I'm still waiting for the Ack 47 to come my way. Or the Arrr 15 for the pirate crowd.
Like anything else you've got your spastics who like to make everything a word. For example, in the auto world the I've heard the rice-burner crowd refer to nitrous oxide as NOS. And they actually say it like "noss", apparently ignoring the fact that Nitrous Oxide Systems is a company, not a word.
I'm still waiting for the Ack 47 to come my way. Or the Arrr 15 for the pirate crowd.
CoRoMo
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Now that this has been cleared up, maybe it is okay if I hi-jack your thread with my own pronunciation question...
How 'bout Mosin-Nagant ?
I take it that it is not pronounced Mawzen Naygint... right?
How 'bout Mosin-Nagant ?
I take it that it is not pronounced Mawzen Naygint... right?
ny32182
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I've been known to say it either way.
Of course, I sometime say "Garand" with a soft "G" as well.
Of course, I sometime say "Garand" with a soft "G" as well.
DarkCharisma
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I say "Eff Ay Ell"
Sometimes I say "Effin fal" if I'm referring to an FN-FAL though.
Sometimes I say "Effin fal" if I'm referring to an FN-FAL though.
HorseSoldier
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I always say it as F-A-L, but I've known a good number of people who aren't gun novices who say it as a word. For whatever reason, everyone I've met who says it as a word pronounces to rhyme with "gal" rather than saying it as "fall."
Zach S
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"Eff Ay Ell" or "fal." I think I say fal more often though. Doesnt matter much anyway, I havent found them to be very southpaw friendly so I dont own one.
NOS had the laughing gas market pretty much on lock for a long time, but around the time that time Nitrous Xpress starting cutting into their profits. Considering the success of that movie (there's a fourth coming out soon), it wasn't a bad marketing strategy. They got a big-screen plug and a way to separate them from NX. "Noss" still gets on my nerves though.
"Arghhh fifteen." LOL. If you actually say it in a pirates voice you cant help but laugh at yourself. My 19 month old daughter gets a kick out of it too.
Rumor has it that NOS paid to be mentioned in The Fast and the Furious, and that's how they wanted it said.
NOS had the laughing gas market pretty much on lock for a long time, but around the time that time Nitrous Xpress starting cutting into their profits. Considering the success of that movie (there's a fourth coming out soon), it wasn't a bad marketing strategy. They got a big-screen plug and a way to separate them from NX. "Noss" still gets on my nerves though.
"Arghhh fifteen." LOL. If you actually say it in a pirates voice you cant help but laugh at yourself. My 19 month old daughter gets a kick out of it too.
jeremy71504
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What about the BAR is is pronounced B-A-R or bar?
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CoRoMo
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How 'bout Mosin-Nagant ?
I was told that it is pronounced Moy-sheen Nazhauhnt (extremely heavy french emphasis added).
Now I know what to think of that guy.
I was told that it is pronounced Moy-sheen Nazhauhnt (extremely heavy french emphasis added).
Now I know what to think of that guy.
jeremy71504
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Iv actually heard a guy at cabelas call it by that. I laughed so hard, got to love people that cant name something without say it as a word.
db_tanker
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I call 'em both...eff-ay-ell or fal.
I don't call em AR's...I either call 'em mouse guns or mattels
(even though I know that it is incorrect nomenclature as they were never made in the toy shops...but hey...handle an AR and then handle a FAL and tell me which one feels like a toy...)
I don't call em AR's...I either call 'em mouse guns or mattels
(even though I know that it is incorrect nomenclature as they were never made in the toy shops...but hey...handle an AR and then handle a FAL and tell me which one feels like a toy...)
gotgcoalman
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Don't try to prounouce FAL just point
and say i want it.
and say i want it.
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I'm still waiting for the Ack 47 to come my way. Or the Arrr 15 for the pirate crowd.
LOL. You posted exactly what I was going to post before I posted it. I always pronounce it eff-ay-ell.
I'm waiting for some noob to say "are fifteen"
That reminds me of a funny story. I was on the phone once with my mom and she told me I had inadvertently left some ammo over at her house (she lives way out in the boonies and I often go plinking out there when visiting.) Anyway, I asked her to go look at the box and tell me what kind it was. She said it was "dot four four rem magnum." Needless to say, she knows absolutely nothing about guns.
LOL. You posted exactly what I was going to post before I posted it. I always pronounce it eff-ay-ell.
I'm waiting for some noob to say "are fifteen"
That reminds me of a funny story. I was on the phone once with my mom and she told me I had inadvertently left some ammo over at her house (she lives way out in the boonies and I often go plinking out there when visiting.) Anyway, I asked her to go look at the box and tell me what kind it was. She said it was "dot four four rem magnum." Needless to say, she knows absolutely nothing about guns.
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FAL = Fusil Automatique Legere, French for Light Automatic Rifle
FAL has an identical meaning in Italian, Fucile Automatico Leggero
For millions of Italians that went into service, the word FAL doesn't refer to the original FN-FAL but to the Beretta BM 59, a fully automatic design based on the M1 Garand
For many years this was the FAL for me
it was no fun at all firing it in full auto.
FAL has an identical meaning in Italian, Fucile Automatico Leggero
For millions of Italians that went into service, the word FAL doesn't refer to the original FN-FAL but to the Beretta BM 59, a fully automatic design based on the M1 Garand
For many years this was the FAL for me
it was no fun at all firing it in full auto.
cracked butt
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Mosin nagant= noisy magnet
Trying to pronounce it the right way makes a person sound retarded.
Trying to pronounce it the right way makes a person sound retarded.
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