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> the b in debt English speaking Swedes often transform this silent b into a spoken p which is about as awkward a result as you're imagining.
by dcminter 1y ago
> the b in debt
English speaking Swedes often transform this silent b into a spoken p which is about as awkward a result as you're imagining.
- glitchcrab 1y agoI work for a small remote company with employees all over Europe; it's pretty common for most non-native English speakers to pronounce it this way. Especially noticeable with Germans.
- dcminter 1y agoInteresting; I don't recall hearing it pronounced like that from my Polish colleagues, so perhaps it's something about the Germanic languages specifically?
- walthamstow 1y agoYou'd have to be a pretty mean native English speaker to judge people on how they pronounce silent letters
- dcminter 1y agoWho's judging? I'll save that for when my Swedish är lite mindre dålig! It's just a little strange that the "b" somehow transforms into a "p" when "b" is a perfectly common letter in Swedish. If they just pronounced the "b" I wouldn't have thought it at all notable.
- junon 1y agoQuite the contrary. I live in Germany, for the most part they're pretty thankful, just as I am when they correct my German.
- dcminter 1y agoAnyone correcting my Swedish is in a target rich environment!
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- junon 1y agoLots of Germans do this too, in my experience.