FrogPrincess@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months agoGerman-speakers of Lemmy, does 'Amerika' normally mean 'the Americas' or 'the USA'?message-squaremessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up148arrow-down15
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minus-squareandrewta@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·3 months agoStupid question is that how they would spell America in Germany “Amerika”?
minus-squarexmunk@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months agoJust wait until you see how Americans spell Deutschland…
minus-squaresuperkretlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoJust wait till you hear how we pronounce “Chicago”.
minus-squarexmunk@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoEh, as a Bostonian I’m always much more impressed by how people’s tongues try to leave orbit when they first encounter Worcester.
minus-squareyetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoIt’s obviously pronounced Kicago, just like Chamäleon, Chemie and China :)
minus-squarembirth@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months ago Kemie and Kina I threw up a little…
minus-squareyetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoBut Chemie comes from Chemnitz (obviously) so it must be pronounced with K Don’t know where China comes from, maybe from Chinese which is obviously pronounced with K.
minus-squareunemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoThe hard “c” sound as you see in America is always a ‘k’ auf deutsch.
minus-squareCaptain Bakalinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down6·edit-23 months agoSomething a person that definitely doesn’t speak german would say. We spell it exactly like this.
minus-squareMagister Sieran@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 months ago…Yes, that’s why they’re asking.
Stupid question is that how they would spell America in Germany “Amerika”?
Yep, that’s how we spell it.
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Just wait until you see how Americans spell Deutschland…
Just wait till you hear how we pronounce “Chicago”.
Eh, as a Bostonian I’m always much more impressed by how people’s tongues try to leave orbit when they first encounter Worcester.
It’s obviously pronounced Kicago, just like Chamäleon, Chemie and China :)
I threw up a little…
But Chemie comes from Chemnitz (obviously) so it must be pronounced with K
Don’t know where China comes from, maybe from Chinese which is obviously pronounced with K.
The hard “c” sound as you see in America is always a ‘k’ auf deutsch.
That makes sense
Something a person that definitely doesn’t speak german would say. We spell it exactly like this.
…Yes, that’s why they’re asking.