do you say ... ?

[AgX]

It was a Retina IB 019/11 (w. bright-line finder and lightmeter).

I do not remember ever seeing any model Retina at a fleamarket over here...

 

[BobD]

So, the American pronunciation of that little Zeiss camera is:
KON-tin-nah and their bigger folder is an EYE-kon-tah ?

 

[markjwyatt]

So, the American pronunciation of that little Zeiss camera is:
KON-tin-nah and their bigger folder is an EYE-kon-tah ?

True confession. That is how I would pronounce them. I just bought a Contina (probably non-functional)- how should I pronounce it, kone-teena"?

 

[BobD]

True confession. That is how I would pronounce them. I just bought a Contina (probably non-functional)- how should I pronounce it, kone-teena"?

I would pronounce it so it rhymes with the way you say Retina.

 

[markjwyatt]

I would pronounce it so it rhymes with the way you say Retina.

The issue is not the "teena:, but Kone vs. kahn (teena)

 

[BobD]

The issue is not the "teena:, but Kone vs. kahn (teena)

Depends if you are from North or South Germany.

 

[AgX]

No, it doesn't.

 

[markjwyatt]

Based on the pronunciation of (der) doktor, I suspect it would be "Kahn Teena"

 

[markjwyatt]

No, it doesn't.

Nicht mit Hochdeutasch.

 

[AgX]

I cannot imagine people from the South and the North pronouncing the "o" in Contax differently, even in dialect.

 

[Smaug01]

I say it just like the part of the eye: "RET-nuh"

 

[Alan Gales]

Please yourself and to hell with everyone else.

That applies to a lot of things in life!