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Posted Mar 30, 2011 23:32 UTC (Wed) by baldridgeec (guest, #55283)
In reply to: Introducing /run by dark
Parent article: Introducing /run

The way I've always heard "Goethe" pronounced (which may be 100% wrong - neither I nor any of my friends speak Enlightenment-era Germanic) it would end up sort of like:
"Puh(r)-turing" -- with the "(r)" being a soft slur into the next syllable.

Leonard, is that about right? Or do I need to try to start bringing Goethe into conversation more often so I can correct peoples' pronunciation? :)

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Posted Mar 31, 2011 2:15 UTC (Thu) by mezcalero (subscriber, #45103) [Link] (2 responses)

Not right, no. The "oe" sounds like "ö", which sounds like a mixture between "o!" and "e!"

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Posted Mar 31, 2011 2:21 UTC (Thu) by baldridgeec (guest, #55283) [Link]

Oh wow, that's way off...

Do the exclamation points as pronunciation guides mean the same thing they do in Ndebele?

(sorry, couldn't resist -- but seriously... I now have no idea how to pronounce Goethe. To Wikipedia!)

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Posted Oct 20, 2017 9:42 UTC (Fri) by poruid (subscriber, #15924) [Link]

In Dutch "oe" is pronounced as the German "U" and really, it sounds a lot better than the English "u".