Comments on Profile Post by Thad E Ginathom

It's not easy, when you find out you've been mispronouncing something since forever.

Breathe Thad, breathe…

It's Levi-OH-sah, not Lehvio-SAH (couldn't help it).

Now do Audeze.

Is it Zee-em-eff or Zed-em-eff?

Emo-Batman-Tiva

"Now do Audeze"

Ord-easy. ???

Hey, I wonder how *Germans* say Sennheiser!

audeze is odyssey but with a z sound instead of s

Thanks for the correction! Another one for the practise list!

If you say “aw-deez” everyone will point and laugh at you.

How do we say Canre. Is it can-ar-EE? or CANE-r? or maybe something else?

@Boops "... everyone will point and laugh at you."

They do that anyway.

@Azimuth I have no clue what that is but hazarding a guess: KAN-ruh?

@Thad E Ginathom no they were pointing and laughing *with* you!

Hm, I wonder how Americans pronounce Sennheiser. Germans say SENN-hi-serr. (That second r in the last syllable is there to try to make sure the e pronounced as in jet, not as in her.)

@zottel "the e pronounced as in jet, not as in her"

So not SENN-hi-zuur, then?

Another Great British Fail?

(Better not to get onto BMW and VW. I don't suppose we Brits would even recognise the "real" names!)

Maybe imagine a stereotype German talking English who says “player” and take the er from there. :) No zuur, no, but maybe Z instead of S everywhere.

Fun fact that I never noticed myself before: The German word heiser means hoarse in English, and a Senn is an alpine peasant or herdsman. :)

A German would never immediately think “alpine peasant hoarse” when he sees the word Sennheiser, though, as the er in the end has the first connotation of sb doing sth, like in English, too (maker, player etc.).

horse or hoarse?

Hoarse. Yes, it doesn’t add up to something that really makes sense, but still, it’s funny.