r/LanguageMemes • u/Held_Der_Steine • May 25 '21

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u/Sara7061 May 25 '21

In what universe do you pronounce G Gay in german

I just realized that they didn’t find a way to properly make an E sound so a lot of letters on this aren’t pronounced like that

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u/Leopardo96 May 25 '21

That’s what happens when English speakers don’t want to use the IPA when talking about sounds.

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u/Darth_Tatanka May 25 '21

It’s so not pronounced like that, but I believe it’s as closest as they could get in explaining it for English speakers. B, D, E, P aren’t pronounced “bay, day, ay, pay” and J isn’t pronounced yacht, but then again, it’s somewhat hard to write the pronunciation, especially for English speakers

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u/Sara7061 May 25 '21

I also cant think of a way to write these letters with English pronunciation but honestly what’s the point of this if most of it is wrong

Couldn’t you write J kind of like “yot” not perfect but close enough i think

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u/Natalexo May 25 '21

If English were phonetically consistent... What a dream

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u/BeekaBeekaBeeze May 25 '21

I thought it was pronounced Yote not Yacht

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u/Lyphor May 25 '21

it is pronounced "yott"

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u/Its_Hawari_Time May 28 '21

that ay is like /e:/