Player Discussion Pontus Aberg

[Masch78]

I remember wanting the Ducks to pick this guy in the 2012 draft. I'm happy now that we didn't, ...

Kerdiles wasn't a homerun either.

 

[Ducks DVM]

The pronounciation will be butchered. His name is Åberg, and "Å" is a lot closer to "O" than "A". They will say "Aaa-berg" but it should be "Oh-berg".

I also hate how all the announcer say Rickard Rakell's first name. "Rickard" should be short just like the english name "Richard". Not "Rick-AAAAarrhhhrd". Sounds like he should be a pirate in some pirate movie, or a villian in Lucky Luke. But I've gotten used to it now.

Yeah, but the proper pronunciation sounds like a schoolboy name. Being a pirate is WAAAAY cooler than being a schoolboy.

 

[KeepItDeep]

Hopefully he becomes a real player for us and we wind up calling him Heisenberg.

 

[Terry Yake]

i remember him from that awful 2016 series against the preds

preds fans were really high on him but he just didn't develop the way they thought he would

 

[Duck Off]

makes sense with Ritchie still unsigned and the Gibbsons and Eaves injuries. Curious to see what opening night lineup looks like.

 

[Arthuros]

I don’t think this is what they meant by “using the right kind of plug”.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

makes sense with Ritchie still unsigned and the Gibbsons and Eaves injuries. Curious to see what opening night lineup looks like.

Idk... Aberg is a lw I think? arnt we kinda good on LW right now Rakell - Comtois - Cogs - Sheerwood? did we just bring him in as a 13th?

 

[DuckTech]

Kiefer is a RW

 

[ADHB]

Idk... Aberg is a lw I think? arnt we kinda good on LW right now Rakell - Comtois - Cogs - Sheerwood? did we just bring him in as a 13th?

Sherwood has been at RW all preseason as far as I know. He’s right handed, regardless.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

Sherwood has been at RW all preseason as far as I know. He’s right handed, regardless.

Oh for some reason I thought he was on left , but if hes Right handed then RW makes sense

 

[KaseMeOutside]

Low risk move, I remember he had some good moments against us in that playoff series in 2017. Probably better than throwing a bunch of inexperienced guys in all at once. Kid has talent so let's see what happens

 

[Paul4587]

I’ve got no issue with this claim. It is low risk and has some upside.

 

[TesseracT]

The pronounciation will be butchered. His name is Åberg, and "Å" is a lot closer to "O" than "A". They will say "Aaa-berg" but it should be "Oh-berg".

I also hate how all the announcer say Rickard Rakell's first name. "Rickard" should be short just like the english name "Richard". Not "Rick-AAAAarrhhhrd". Sounds like he should be a pirate in some pirate movie, or a villian in Lucky Luke. But I've gotten used to it now.

Damn Swedes. Here I was wondering if it was "A-berg" or "Ah-berg" and it turns out both are incorrect lol

 

[Kalv]

(Z)o(id)berg

 

[Elvs]

Damn Swedes. Here I was wondering if it was "A-berg" or "Ah-berg" and it turns out both are incorrect lol

The Swedish letter Å is pronounced how Americans would pronounce the O in "Fork".

The letter Å can also form a word on its own. There's no real English translation but it basically means a very small river.

Basically his last name translates to "river mountain".

 

[Kalv]

The Swedish letter Å is pronounced how Americans would pronounce the O in "Fork".

The letter Å can also form a word on its own. There's no real English translation but it basically means a very small river.

Basically his last name translates to "river mountain".

Sounds like he would fit in Minnesota Wild

 

[Mortal Wombat]

Damn Swedes. Here I was wondering if it was "A-berg" or "Ah-berg" and it turns out both are incorrect lol

If you want to hear the correct Swedish pronunciation, here you go: Keith Pontus Åberg pronunciation: How to pronounce Keith Pontus Åberg in Swedish Just ignore the "Keith" in the beginning. And yes, that is how "berg" is pronounced in Swedish, very different from the English pronunciation.

 

[Elvs]

Sounds like he would fit in Minnesota Wild

That goes for most Swedes who's last name doesn't end with -son to he honest

Lind = Tilia Cordata (this is a tree)
Holme = Islet

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

The Swedish letter Å is pronounced how Americans would pronounce the O in "Fork".

The letter Å can also form a word on its own. There's no real English translation but it basically means a very small river.

Basically his last name translates to "river mountain".

Plenty of English words that amount to a small river: brook, creek, rivulet, rill, slough . . . . Doesn't fit any of those? I'm just curious.

 

[Anaheim4ever]

So we got Pontus Pilate & Robin Hood from Sherwood Forrest & The Man of Steel !

 

[Mortal Wombat]

Plenty of English words that amount to a small river: brook, creek, rivulet, rill, slough . . . . Doesn't fit any of those? I'm just curious.

I'd say it's what North Americans would usually call a creek. My Swedish sucks, though.

 

[Elvs]

Plenty of English words that amount to a small river: brook, creek, rivulet, rill, slough . . . . Doesn't fit any of those? I'm just curious.

Not sure, but there's no match får Å on google translate. There's also no synonyms for Å in the Swedish language, but I think it's just a really old Swedish word for river. Today it's used to describe small rivers, at least where I live, so it could be a dialectal thing. A creek/brook we would basically only call something that one could jump over. The Swedish word for that is Bäck, as in Nicklas Bäckström

 

[Arthuros]

Now we’re just diving into Swedish pronunciation.

How is the ö pronounced in Lundeström and Backström? Is it essentially the typical “o” sound?

 

[Elvs]

Now we’re just diving into Swedish pronunciation.

How is the ö pronounced in Lundeström and Backström? Is it essentially the typical “o” sound?

The best way I can describe Å, Ä and Ö...

Å = stay at the 'o' in "Fork"
Ä = stay at the 'a' in "Cat"
Ö = stay at the 'i' in "Bird"

 

[Dryish]

The /ö/ sound is essentially the English 'e' when you're going "err". I have a degree in linguistics so I should know.

This video is for the German umlauts but essentially the Scandinavian and Finnish vowels are the same, just with y replacing the ü.

Also, as far as å's translation goes, I think you get the closest with creek, at least in traditional North American usage. A brook would also work in some instances, but I think thinking of them as creeks gets you the closest.