nor-FUCK! Which is the ONLY way to say it.
Borepatch sent me this image with this message:
Too racy for my blog. May be funny for yours, though.
“Send it to Weer’d! He’ll post it!” 😉
LOL! I have a coworker from Austria and one day we got to talking and I asked her to pronounce “Steyr Mannlicher”. The “Steyr” part isn’t too difficult for my tongue, so I generally say it more-or-less the “right” way (with a thick Maine Accent)
But “Mannlicher” uses sounds I was unaware the human mouth could make, and mashed together in such a way that as soon as I get one sound right the following noise my mouth makes sounds like a cow falling down a flight of stairs.
So yeah its a “Man-Licker” rifle, and I laugh like a 12-year-old every time I say it!
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Heh
My favorite pistol is my Steyr M9A1.
So when I took my girlfriend to the range for the first time she noticed it was in fact a Steyr-Mannlicher and now she calls it the manlicker and giggles like a 12 year old every time…
Marko had one for a while and I got to shoot it. Overall it wasn’t my thing, I felt the trigger was a little to crisp for DAO, and a little to mushy for a SA gun, and the safety is just all kinds of fucked-up. Still despite its glock-like angle, I found it pointed for me more naturally than even a 1911, which is AMAZING, and I like the hexagonal sights.
Still it does a lot of things differently which means that some people MUST find it to the best gun ever because it does the things that no other gun does.