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German has fixed pronunciation rules, there is no through/trough/tough/thought confusion. Of course for some foreign words you have to make an exception. Howev
by jonp888 6y ago
German has fixed pronunciation rules, there is no through/trough/tough/thought confusion.
Of course for some foreign words you have to make an exception. However, Uber has a pretty minimal presence in Germany, so I doubt many people know how it is 'supposed' to be pronounced.
- amanaplanacanal 6y agoI’d call it fixed spelling rules rather than pronunciation rules, since the language predates writing it down.
- cycomanic 6y agoLet's agree and call it a 1 to 1 mapping.
- Fnoord 6y agoWhen I learned German on high school, it was allowed to replace umlaut. For example, instead of über, you could say ueber. Ie. effectively replacing the umlaut with its vanilla/plain vowel variant plus an e. You can do the same with ß by replacing it with two s (mind to write it like). Tho I'm not sure its correct German in all German-speaking regions I found Germans would understand me. It being useful as my keyboard layout wasn't qwertz or equiv.
- mafuy 6y agoI'm German, can confirm the replacements you mention is universally understood here. In case you ever want to type German, have a look at using the US-Int layout on your US keyboard. It adds keyboard combinations like Alt+S = ß, "+U = Ü etc. It is a little cumbersome, but probably good enough for occasional foreign languages.
- Fnoord 6y agoI like how SwiftKey and macOS deal with it. Long press key gives options for accents.
- esrauch 6y agoI was actually in Zurich not Germany. People were genuinely confused if I asked them why they didn't pronounce it Über ("That's clearly just not how it's spelled"). As a native English speaker it's just hard to wrap my head around having they much confidence in spelling based pronunciation.