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Help[Opinions] Re: Diederich
in reply to a message by Tippins
I think it's a nice name. It reminds me of Dieter, which I like. I don't know anything about old German, but I would have never guessed it would be pronounced like that. Very interesting. I pronounce it the Americanized way that you mentioned.
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DIETER!
Excellent!
Yeah my professor is saying a lot of names really differently from how I expected it (idk why BTN lists it as 'old german') I am getting over my freaked-out overwhelmedness enough to notice that R's are l's and ch is sh. It was very alarming to hear a German speaker say Friederich Wilhelm. Fleedeleesh Villlem.
Excellent!
Yeah my professor is saying a lot of names really differently from how I expected it (idk why BTN lists it as 'old german') I am getting over my freaked-out overwhelmedness enough to notice that R's are l's and ch is sh. It was very alarming to hear a German speaker say Friederich Wilhelm. Fleedeleesh Villlem.
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Honestly, as a German speaking person, I don't know where someone would get that weird pronounciation from. R's are R's over here as well and never L's. As for the Ch: It's difficult to explain how it is said, but it's no Sh.
But I guess wikipedia might explain it better than me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language#Phonology
But I guess wikipedia might explain it better than me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language#Phonology
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Hmmm
I have been saying R further and further back in my mouth all today and eventually it sounds a lot like L
My teacher is a native German, I dunno where he's from in Germany, so I dunno if it's dialectal or something. But it is definitely an R that could be confused with an L. I have been listening intently and he has definitely been saying something that sounds like an L. Probably super-guttural R. I remember paying extra special attention when he said Diederich and thinking "Oh man that is funny because it has Deedle in it why does it have deedle"
So I dunno! I am going to listen to him very hard.
I have been saying R further and further back in my mouth all today and eventually it sounds a lot like L
My teacher is a native German, I dunno where he's from in Germany, so I dunno if it's dialectal or something. But it is definitely an R that could be confused with an L. I have been listening intently and he has definitely been saying something that sounds like an L. Probably super-guttural R. I remember paying extra special attention when he said Diederich and thinking "Oh man that is funny because it has Deedle in it why does it have deedle"
So I dunno! I am going to listen to him very hard.
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