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>Only just found out how "Goethe" is actually pronounced.

ITT: /lit/erary mistakes that make you wanna kys yourself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkcjS9upsrA

>> No.21732324
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21732324

for the longest time I pronounced Hermione Her-mee-own

>> No.21732331

>>21732315
It's goo-ta right?
>>21732324
Didn't you watch the movies?

>> No.21732336

>>21732315
go-eth sounds way cooler than gerta or guhtuh

>> No.21732347

>>21732324
>Her-mee-own
Literally everyone did that before they saw the movie. Dont feel bad.

>> No.21732428

>>21732324
I learned to pronounce that from GTA Vice City.

>> No.21732443

>>21732324
IDIOT, it's obviously HERM-EYE-ONE

>> No.21732453

>her-my-yoni
kek

>> No.21732713

>>21732324
Okay Krum

>> No.21732722

Albert Cay-muhs

>> No.21732956

>>21732331
It's Goe-the
Many Americans find ist impossible to pronounce, but you basically have that sound. It's very close to the u in "turn" or something like that, just remove the r.

>> No.21732970

>>21732956
I can pronounce it; it's just "e" with your lips rounded. That being said I refuse to use it because I will not use foreign sounds that aren't part of my own language when speaking my own language.

>> No.21732973

>>21732970
You mean Spanish?

>> No.21732984

>>21732973
There is a similar sound in English that can occur due to the vowel being next to an "r" which causes the lips to be rounded. Pronouncing it in isolation is not part of English phonology.

>> No.21732986

>>21732315
Why is he like that? If this Card guy lurks here why isn't he cool and fun like Gardner?

>> No.21732991

>>21732984
I was attempting to make a funny under the assumption that the poster I was responding to was American, but yes I understand, thank you.

>> No.21733006

>>21732991
Lol, I see. I thought you were just being really pedantic.

>> No.21733010

for me it's /ˈɡɜːtə/
https://vocaroo.com/1fVSsiPsUwcu

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>>21732315
>just recently found out it’s not pronounced like “goeth”, the present tense of the word “go” in Shakespearean English
>just found out it’s not pronounced “sarter”
>just found out it’s not ”vag-rayina” Buddhism
>the famous Irish writer isn’t pronounced “joike,” joiking is actually a traditional form of song of the Sami shamans of Northern Europe
>it’s not Michel “Hollaback” (like the song)
>it’s not “Frederick Knee-etz-ske”

On a positive note, at least Heidegger actually is “Hide-egger”

>> No.21733027

Reminder that "saith" is pronounced "seth" like in the word "said."

>> No.21733047

>>21733027
Also reminder that "mischievous" is pronounced "mis-chi-vus" NOT "mis-chee-vee-us". There's no "i" after the "v" to create that extra vowel sound.

>> No.21733051

>>21733006
And I thought the same of you. Have a great day anon, you’re ok by me

>> No.21733052

I used to pronounce meme as 'meh meh' (as in memetics)

>> No.21733053

Goethe = goh-ee-thee

>> No.21733055

>>21733052
It’s may-may. You’re welcome.

>> No.21733062

>>21733022
>“sarter”
Sart or sart-truh?

>> No.21733069

I like to pronounce words incorrectly by following the way it's spelled. Like the other day I kept pronouncing pizza as "piz-uh". I think it's funny but it's probably just annoying. I don't care, though.

>> No.21733078

>>21733069
I also like to stress the wrong syllable in certain words so that it makes the pronunciation sound funny.

>> No.21733218
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21733218

I thought Houllebecq was "Hoya-beck", like bouillabaisse.

>> No.21733274

I don't see any problems with mispronouncing foreign names. German and French people pronounce English names with their own pronunciation.
I pronounce Nietzsche as "Neech" because "Neecha" sounds like one of those made-up African names that black women give to their kids. I won't say "Neechee" because it's wrong in both German and English.

>> No.21733284

>>21732956
>guh-th
am I retarded?

>> No.21733290

>>21733274
I pronounce it neet-jeux

>> No.21733311

>>21733274
The only people who get upset about are Europeans who resent English for being the lingua franca instead of their own language, so they take any opportunity they get to poke at English speakers without realizing that no English speaker cares what they think.

>> No.21733334

>>21733311
Ce n’est pas faux ca

>> No.21733349

>>21733311
>20 posters ITT
Great way of not caring.

>> No.21733363

>>21732331
>>21733284
u as the u in turn or burn, te as the te- sound isolated in test and telephone

gu-te

the best way to transcribe it without using examples or phonetic symbols would probably be gö-teh

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>EFLs

>> No.21733379

>>21732315
Goethe should be fairly easy to pronounce for anglos.
What no anglo will ever in the history of the universe be able to do is pronounce Schopenhauer. They don't have the "o" sound, they can only do "ow".

>> No.21733388

>>21733027
I learned this one from Browning:
>As when a sick man very near to death
>Seems dead indeed, and feels begin and end
>The tears and takes the farewell of each friend,
>And hears one bid the other go, draw breath
>Freelier outside ("since all is o'er," he saith,
>"And the blow fallen no grieving can amend;")

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21733392

>FUCK YOU ANGLOS YOU CAN'T PRONOUNCE GOETHE PLEASE TERMINATE YOURSELVES
>BLAH BLAH FUCK YOU GERMOIDS YOU CAN'T PRONOUNCE SQUIRREL PROPERLY GO JUMP IN A LAKE

>> No.21733395

>>21733392
You forgot Spanish speakers getting mad for pronouncing 'r' differently to everyone else.

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21733418

German-Americans in Chicago paid for this statue to be built, 110 years ago.

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>>21732336

>go-eth sounds way cooler than gerta or guhtuh

Oida bist damisch?!

>> No.21733442

>>21733218
kek, ll turns into a y sound only if preceded with an i

>> No.21733478

>>21732315
GERTUH but hide the "r" is the easiest way for Americans.
Also:
>banal does not rhyme with anal
>rhetoric is pronounced "redderick", not "re-TOR-ic"
>>21733388
Is that not merely poetic license? I guess not, since the spelling doesn't match but the sound, presumably, does.

>> No.21733501

>>21733478
It does match. "Said" and "saith" are both spelled and pronounced with the same vowels.

>> No.21733515

>>21732324

It's closer to the real pronunciation, anyway

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>>21733418

>> No.21733552

>>21733395
Huh? Both Spanish R sounds are present in other languages. Not sure what you mean.

>> No.21733626

gur'er innit mate

>> No.21733639

>>21733418
A blackamoor was the model for this statue btw

>> No.21733856

Gehteh

>> No.21733880 [DELETED] 

>>21733395
as a Spaniard i am always triggered how Mexians pronounce J and G totally wrong and turn it into an H. Thats why americans have this weird joke about how many mexicans you would need for a lightbulb, its huan, one.. the H is barely even pronounced at all by mexicans. Mexicans are fucking subhumans, we raped their aztecs grandmothers and they turned into fucking niggers

>> No.21733886

>>21733880
Pronouncing c/z as 'th' sounds retarded

>> No.21733891

>>21732315
HOLY SHIT FUCK OFF CARD YOUR VIDEOS ARE THE MOST UNINTERESTING AND UNORIGINAL IN EXISTENCE STOP SHILLING YOURSELF NO ONE LIKES PSEUD FAGGOTS.

>> No.21733897

>>21732315
Gert-duh

>> No.21733914

>>21732722
I thought it was Ka-moo

>> No.21733916

>>21733880
I am Mexican I don’t pronounce Juan as one. I never understood that American joke. They sound different. Americans spell marihuana as marijuana which is nonsensical.
> we raped their aztecs grandmothers
We? Those conquistadors stayed here. We quite literally are their descendants.
>inb4 omg le violence!
The cartel shit started in the state with the most European (read: Spanish) descent.

>> No.21733922

>>21733914
It is, but before I knew that I pronounced it like it was an English name

>> No.21733923

>>21733914
It’s Ka-myu

>> No.21733952

To me it sounds like goo-tah with certain phonological tapering or deemphasis on the second 'o' in "goo"

>> No.21733974

>>21732315
It’s GER- TUH you fucks. How am I the only one that googled it to check.

>> No.21733992

>>21732324
>he didn’t start with the Greeks

>> No.21734027

>Joyce isn't pronounced YOI-kuh
>Dickens isn't pronounces DIE-kins
>Dostoyevsky isn't pronounced Dust-A-yev-EE-sky
wtf

>> No.21734062

>>21733022
fucking kekked and chekked

>> No.21734554

>>21733418
this is pretty bad, lmao