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I couldn't remember how to pronounce the German "Blech", so I just looked it up. It sounds like the German uses a long "a" sound for the vowel. Liked you'd exp
by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
I couldn't remember how to pronounce the German "Blech", so I just looked it up.
It sounds like the German uses a long "a" sound for the vowel. Liked you'd expect from "é" in a French word.
When I hear people say "blech" (the interjection) in English, the "e" is pronounced the same as first the "e" in "methadone".
- danparsonson 6y agoI think Wiktionary disagrees, and I do too (but then again it's been years since I studied German): https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Blech https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Blech - there is a subtle lengthening of the 'e' in their audio clip, but it's very slight. No doubt there are regional variations though.
- DoofusOfDeath 6y agoI'm certainly not an authority on the topic. FWIW, here [0] is the basis for my original comment. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9AmJTKYmZE&ab_channel=VisualTerra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9AmJTKYmZE&ab_channel=Visua...
- danparsonson 6y agoI see where you're coming from; I guess the difficulty is really that we're forced to use an approximation from English to describe it because we don't have a sound exactly like that (how does the 'e' in 'Blech' sound? like the 'e' in 'Blech'!)
- dj_mc_merlin 6y agoIt's just a normal length 'e'. About the same length as the 'ch' that follows. At least that's how I'd pronounce it. But it can have a negative connotation in German too, unsure if the author of the language is aware of that.
- Joker_vD 6y agoAren't the vowels of English "cat" and "bet" are pretty much allophones of German /e/ (which written either as "e" or "ä")?