r/tabletennis • u/mabensur • Nov 03 '24

Pictures/Videos Kallberg's Hand Switch Drop Shot

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u/Past-Mastodon-1879 Nov 04 '24

Shellberry is always a (under-rated) talented and creative player just like his younger counterpart, Moregardh. Agree that he is a pleasure to watch.

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u/adminsregarded Nov 04 '24

Why does every commentator say his name like that haha

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u/kollibrall Nov 04 '24

That’s how his name is pronounced in swedish

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u/Commercial-Intern285 Nov 04 '24

I mean, no its not the way u pronounce it

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u/kollibrall Nov 04 '24

How do you pronounce it then? I think shellberry is about as close as you can get from an english speaking person.

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u/Sairony Nov 04 '24

The first half is almost perfect, but the ending is totally off. But you're right that it's hard to find a good substitute for the ending.

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u/TerrificByte Nov 04 '24

This came up in TTD's episode with Jörgen Persson, here.

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u/ollewall Nov 05 '24

Käll is the same pronounciation as Shell so all good so far.
Berg can be split up in the Ber sound and the G sound.
Ber you can pronounce just like the beginning of Berry (so just the Berr part).
Then the G is pronounced as the J sound. Like the beginning of the Jam or Jiggle.

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u/pleebpedeel Nov 06 '24

are you swedish? one of the hallmarks of a swedish accent in english is the inability to pronounce the english J as in "jam" - many swedes pronounce it as "yam". and i think it's the y sound in the latter that better corresponds to the g in berg

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u/SnooOwls490 Nov 07 '24 edited Nov 08 '24

Yes the pronounciation of y in the word yam better corresponds to how you would say it in Swedish. However since berry is an English word where the y is pronounced completely differently it looks really weird. 

I don't think y is ever pronounced as a soft j in english when it follows a consonant, that's probably why it looks so strange.