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minus-squarezaphod@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up29arrow-down2·2 months agosuchen = to search/look for and ch doesn’t make a k sound, not even close.
minus-squarejustme@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·2 months agoAaah, thanks, I had a hard time to figure out what is supposed to be funny here.
minus-squaremeekah@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 months agoI’m fairly certain the German ch sound doesn’t exist in English
minus-squarehikaru755@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 months agoMade even worse by the fact that depending on the word it can make two different sounds and neither of them exist in English
minus-squarezaphod@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 months agoIn some areas people pronounce an initial ch as a k, like kina instead china. But apart from that neither of the two actual ch sounds exists in English.
minus-squareCyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoUnd often enough, ch is pronounced (t)sh, like China, duchess, choose or Apache.
minus-squarenightlily@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoUnless you’re a Berliner, but then you have to wonder why your baked goods are talking, and why they insist on being called Pfannkuchen instead.
minus-squarewonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·2 months agoWell it is close, though. A velar fricative versus a velar plosive. Both unvoiced.
minus-squaremeekah@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoComing back to this thread, because sometimes it actually is pronounced as a k e.g. Fuchs, Lachs, wachsen tbf, it usually is not a k, and most importantly it isn’t in this context
minus-squarezaphod@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoYeah, but only in combination with an s, so it’s chs that’s pronounced as ks.
minus-squarelumpenproletariat@quokk.auBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down9·edit-22 months ago and ch doesn’t make a k sound, not even close. Go back to school.
minus-squaremeekah@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up7·edit-22 months agoThis is about German, not English
minus-squarelumpenproletariat@quokk.auBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoIt is about English, because the whole joke is how it sounds in English.
minus-squaremeekah@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agothe statement you replied to was about how ch sounds in german though
minus-squarezaphod@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoI just so happen to have passed by one of my old schools, what should I do next?
suchen = to search/look for
and ch doesn’t make a k sound, not even close.
Aaah, thanks, I had a hard time to figure out what is supposed to be funny here.
I’m fairly certain the German ch sound doesn’t exist in English
Made even worse by the fact that depending on the word it can make two different sounds and neither of them exist in English
In some areas people pronounce an initial ch as a k, like kina instead china. But apart from that neither of the two actual ch sounds exists in English.
Und often enough, ch is pronounced (t)sh, like China, duchess, choose or Apache.
Unless you’re a Berliner, but then you have to wonder why your baked goods are talking, and why they insist on being called Pfannkuchen instead.
Well it is close, though. A velar fricative versus a velar plosive. Both unvoiced.
Coming back to this thread, because sometimes it actually is pronounced as a k
e.g. Fuchs, Lachs, wachsen
tbf, it usually is not a k, and most importantly it isn’t in this context
Yeah, but only in combination with an s, so it’s chs that’s pronounced as ks.
oooh good point
Go back to school.
This is about German, not English
It is about English, because the whole joke is how it sounds in English.
the statement you replied to was about how ch sounds in german though
I just so happen to have passed by one of my old schools, what should I do next?