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From: tjsmedley@watmum.UUCP (Trevor J. Smedley)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Re: Harbors and harbours
Message-ID: <411@watmum.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 16:06:24 EST
Article-I.D.: watmum.411
Posted: Mon Feb 24 16:06:24 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 27-Feb-86 06:47:56 EST
References: <1180@utai.UUCP> <1045@lsuc.UUCP> <2788@sunybcs.UUCP> <395@snow.warwick.UUCP> <883@kuling.UUCP> <1047@terak.UUCP>
Reply-To: tjsmedley@watmum.UUCP (Trevor J. Smedley)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

In article <1047@terak.UUCP> suze@terak.UUCP writes:
> Though I
>agree that an American or English tourist traveling in Deutchland
>might never find their way from a Deutch map unless they knew
>that Koln is the same as Cologne, Munchen is the same as Munich, etc.
>But, in all of these, notice that the English/American pronunciation
>is vastly different from the Deutch pronunciation.

The problem is, that if you speak only English/American, you probably
cannot pronounce Koln (actually Koeln) or Munchen (actually Muenchen)
or even Deutchland (actually Deutschland) correctly. You are more
likely to be understood if you say Cologne, Munich, or Germany. 

>How would you like it if someone deliberately mispronounced
>your name and seemed to insist that they, not you, were
>correct?

Here I agree. Hopefully people will understand if you cannot pronounce
their language correctly, but you certainly should not try to insist
that you are right, and they are wrong (Do people actually do this :-)


Trevor J. Smedley                    University of Waterloo

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