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Anonymous Sun Jun 13 04:52:41 2010 No.1173573 [Reply] [Original]

So why do Germans pronounce Goethe as "gerter"? Are they retarded or what?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 13 04:52:41 2010 No.1173577 Goatse

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 13 04:53:41 2010 No.1173583 nietzsche

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 13 04:53:41 2010 No.1173584 they don't...

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 13 04:55:41 2010 No.1173591 >>1173584 I think he means in a non-rhotic English dialect (where you don't pronounce the r's before consonants and at ends of words) It's because 'oe' is actually 'ö' in German. O and Ö are two different sounds.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 13 04:56:41 2010 No.1173597 >>1173591 they are both the same fucking o one just has two dots

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 13 05:00:41 2010 No.1173616 File: 29 KB, 450x354, Father_Xmas.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] His name is actually Göthe.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 13 05:02:41 2010 No.1173621 >>1173616 see >>1173597

>>	sage sage Sun Jun 13 05:04:41 2010 No.1173630 File: 21 KB, 480x360, Hello.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1173573 see >picture also sage

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 13 05:08:41 2010 No.1173640 >>1173621 Silly, O with two dots =/= O. Much like Δ =/= triangle.