If you pronounce Contax as in tax, you are little bit off. You better should pronounce the a as the u in tug.
(But your deviation is similar to us Germans mis-pronouncing the a in Kodak.)
Well, for a long time I refused the term Deutschland or Germany. As there were two of them and as for the recent past. I spoke of the Federal Republic instead. After the unification I gradually changed over to using both terms.
Deutsch in its original form meant local or indigenious and was used in a small part of the regions that later formed Germany.
Germany likely has a Roman origin, indicating a region that later partly formed Germany.
nonenglish speaking countries seem to have a preference for 'knee-con'.How do you pronounce Nikon.?
From a quick search i get the idea that it is a Three Syllable word.
Something like:
knee
co (as in cooperate)
in
Knee-Co-In
What i typically hear in my country (usa) is
Ny (sky)
Kon (turn it on)
Other country's seem to more often say it like
Knee
Kon
Anybody know the Correct/Japanese pronunciation.?
Thank You
Colonel. As in Sanders.English spelling really does conform to rules.
In the U.S. many pronounce Porsche as Porsh. I've had people tell me I'm wrong when I say Por sha with two syllables. I then explain that the car was named after Ferdinand Porsche.
Don't you call your country Deutschland? How did we get Germany from Deutschland?
They're idiots. Probably the same people who pronounce ''nuclear" nucular. Maroons. Huh, my spell check didn't pick nucular as being a misspelling. It's an idiot also. Sorry, I don't have any patience with this sort of thing.
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Now, that's a topic worthy of a 20-page, double spaced paper. I checked in with Wikipedia on the matter, and realized this is the type of subject that Historical Linguists like to sink their teeth into. Historical was more or less my concentration when I was an Lx student. In my opinion, further research is needed -- based on the Wikipedia article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Germany
It's clear that 'Germany' came from the Romans. It appears that Julius Ceasar was the first one to write about them, and used the term Germani. But he got it from somewhere, and it appears likely to be of Celtic origin. Back in JC's time the Celts were all over northern Europe, causing Rome a fair amount of grief with all their raids. So, it seems plausible that he would associate the Deutch tribes with the Celts. But he was actually referring to those people east of the Rhine. Deutchland comes from Old High German diutisc and can be traced back to Proto-Germanic *Þeudiskaz, which can eventually be traced back to the Proto-Indo-European root *teuta, which means 'people'. Obviously, the PIE root is where Teutonic came from.
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nik-kor, ni-kor
nIk-kor, nI-kor
take your pick
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Anyway to answer your riddle question about ghoti, the obvious answer is 'fish'. Ghoti is an old joke of sorts in Linguistics -- I believe it was a topic that was first presented by Noam Chomski.
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That's why I bought a Contax. I knew how to pronounce it.
Colonel. As in Sanders.
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In the U.S. many pronounce Porsche as Porsh. I've had people tell me I'm wrong when I say Por sha with two syllables. I then explain that the car was named after Ferdinand Porsche.
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My passion for languages and linguistics far exceeds that for photography - and I speak, read, and write four languages besides English (my first job was as a Russian translator - despite my degree in engineering) .
Noam Chomsky is an outstanding, brilliant linguist who would never have concocted the stupid ghoti thing. It doesn't work for the many reasons I gave in my prior posting.
Look it up in Wikipedia to see its bastard origins over 100 years ago by fools trying to be a smartass.
What they don't realize is that a final -e in German has what is called a "schwa" sound (typically represented in text with an upside-down 'e' symbol).
Not in the UK, in four decades of photography I've never heard a British native pronounce the camera as anything other than Nick-on. Overseas businesses never used to expect UK English speakers to pronounce a foreign name authentically (one relative used to pronounce the French car manufacturer Pew-Jot), but this has changed in the last twenty years. The Swiss chocolate firm Nestle was pronounced throughout my childhood as Nessels, even in their long running Milky Bar TV advertisements. At some point it reacquired its accent and Nestlé (Nes-lay) became standard pronunciation, and the old ads were re-dubbed. WW1 in particular offered Anglicisation of French and Belgium place names into a barely recognisable English phonetic.The US and UK seems to prefer 'nycon'.
I've never seen such a bad case of cabin fever on this board before. and no I'm not trying to be a cunning linguist like some of you.
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There's no questioning Chomsky's brilliance, but I disagree absolutely with Chomskyan Syntax. If it doesn't fit, well then add another corrolary to the top heavy theory. Where's the elegance? Reminds me of Ptolemy's rings within rings within rings.
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I never heard that term "schwa-sound".
But women love cunning linguist!
Porsche . .
Porsh
or Porsha?
silly linguist nazis . .
Yeah? Would it annoy you at all if somebody repeatedly pronounced your last name as 'gailt' with the /a/ sound found in "mail" instead of the /a/ sound found in "fault" ?
Actually, linguists aren't interested in telling people how to speak, they're interested in observing how they speak. Big difference. When I comment about the mis-pronunciation of "Porsche" that's me as a regular person, not a linguist, expressing my disapproval. When I've got my linguist hat on, however, I'm more interested in observing how and if a person makes other pronunciation errors in their speech, where and how they occur, and if there are any phonotactic rules in their speech patterns that may account for these differences.
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