Posted on 09/19/2014 6:36:30 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
I took German about five years ago. Their alphabet has a "V" pronounce like an "F" and the "W" pronounced like the "V"--and English is a variation of German.
From the Internet: The English language has several roots, mainly the Germanic languages of the nations that invaded England in the first millennium A.D., particularly Angles and Saxons and Danes; and then Norman French (and via French, English has also strong roots in Latin).
The Scandinavian languages (except Finnish) are Germanic languages, as German and Dutch are.
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So Herr Wagner is pronounced with a "V" sound, per their alphabet.
I worked with about 30 Pakistanis and Indians in the middle east. Then my husband and I visited India.
Your assessment of the Indians is correctomundo. [That's Spanish. :o)]
Ah those wunnefrul Italian names.
LOL! My former boss, who is an Indian lady, said when she was in jr. high, she wanted to be a newscaster and she bugged a friend who was a reporter for a tryout. The friend gave her some copy to read and my boss was doing well until she read “pharmaceutical” as pharmacutical. She was never able to live it down.
I had several Indian PhD types as professors in engineering school. My master’s adviser made me aware of the idea that with one in particular, it wasn’t so much the accent that was the problem in understanding him (though that was an issue), the way his mind worked was the bulk of the problem. Very smart guy, just difficult to understand.
LOL!!
That's a good one. Thanks for sharing.
He marched to the beat of a different drummer.
OR he was just plain nuts! Bwahahaha!
My pleasure. Have a great evening.
Thanks, you too.
‘’//An Indian television news anchor has been sacked after referring to Chinese president Xi Jinping as Eleven Jinping, apparently confusing his name for Roman numerals.
HAHAHA! The Indians are so proud of their English speaking abilities. Their brains, however, don’t work the way OURS do.
This is hilarious. We worked with many Indians when we worked for ARAMCO in the KSA. And those Indians were, supposedly, the brighter ones.//’’
Ah, the girl is being publicly reprimanded because it was intentional. Understand? Indians have been verbally sparring with the english far longer then Americans have is all. Taking the Micky is just a little more subtle when done by Indians. In china the number one is considered the leader number, so eleven is like saying leader leader. Calling their leader eleven is a verbal swipe at communism because their elites were called leaders and now they come to talk capitalism. But don’t let any of that slow you down sport.
As for the "girl" being reprimanded, I doubt that she was a "girl" as they wouldn't put girls on the air. Indian women makes mistakes too, as we all do.
Her error must have been amusing enough to make world news. Her error amused more people than me, I'm sure.
Maybe she will ASK about NAMES and pronunciations the next time she goes on the air and NOT assume that she knows how to pronounce everything.
I was a teacher for many decades and ALWAYS asked about name pronunciation because names CAN be pronounced a variety of ways. Nothing wrong about asking for pronunciation. It shows that a person actually CARES.
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