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10-14-2016, 09:20 AM
#16
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if you're German, it's natural, but for the English speakers, I don't think it's a sin if you pronounce it differently. Ask a native German to say Subaru...
Say it however you like!Everybody has different dialects anyway, although I try to pronounce it the German way, since I work for a German company
10-14-2016, 06:41 PM
#22
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This question comes up every once in a while. A few times back someone posted a video/audio clip of Dr. Porsche and he referred to his cars by the name Porsche at least once in the clip and I pronounce his name as close as i can to his way of pronouncing his name.
Link to the clip is below. Dr. Porsche speaks the name Porsche at about the 1:40 mark.
Here's another clip where Dr. Porsche says Porsche even sooner around the 20 second mark. The audio is a bit better in this clip and he says Porsche at least 3 times, the 2nd time at around 1:45 then again almost at the end of clip.
In this clip an announcer says Porsche and as near as I can tell it sounds like how Dr. Porsche said it. Better audio too.
Link to the clip is below. Dr. Porsche speaks the name Porsche at about the 1:40 mark.
Here's another clip where Dr. Porsche says Porsche even sooner around the 20 second mark. The audio is a bit better in this clip and he says Porsche at least 3 times, the 2nd time at around 1:45 then again almost at the end of clip.
In this clip an announcer says Porsche and as near as I can tell it sounds like how Dr. Porsche said it. Better audio too.
10-18-2016, 10:29 PM
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I always laugh at this attitude, especially when you cannot even spell "pronunciation" 
Years ago at a PCA gathering I found myself talking to couple on holiday from Germany. I asked them this same question, they chuckled and said only in American is this an issue. In Germany it's pronounced many different ways and nobody cares.
This has been confirmed by many people over the years I've met from Germany, few of them Rennlist members.
You want to pick a fight, walk up to a pair of drunk British men and mispronounce Jaguar, that was an interesting evening. The drunker they get the louder the "U" gets.
By the end of the night you would have thought it was supposed to be Jag YOU rrrrrrrrrr....
Years ago at a PCA gathering I found myself talking to couple on holiday from Germany. I asked them this same question, they chuckled and said only in American is this an issue. In Germany it's pronounced many different ways and nobody cares.
This has been confirmed by many people over the years I've met from Germany, few of them Rennlist members.
You want to pick a fight, walk up to a pair of drunk British men and mispronounce Jaguar, that was an interesting evening. The drunker they get the louder the "U" gets.
By the end of the night you would have thought it was supposed to be Jag YOU rrrrrrrrrr....
10-18-2016, 10:43 PM
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Where have you been hiding??
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If you want to laugh, laugh at Dr.Porsche, if you dare, because how HE pronounces his name is "how the name is pronounced". I attempt to pronounce it the way HE pronounces it. I consider it the respectful thing to do.
But I can spell pronunciation. It's spellcheck that didn't grab the correct word as I typed on my small Android screen. My mistake was not in spelling, it was in proofreading. And your mistake was in assuming otherwise. Between the two mistakes, I'll take the proofreading mistake.
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If you want to laugh, laugh at Dr.Porsche, if you dare, because how HE pronounces his name is "how the name is pronounced". I attempt to pronounce it the way HE pronounces it. I consider it the respectful thing to do.
But I can spell pronunciation. It's spellcheck that didn't grab the correct word as I typed on my small Android screen. My mistake was not in spelling, it was in proofreading. And your mistake was in assuming otherwise. Between the two mistakes, I'll take the proofreading mistake.
10-18-2016, 11:02 PM
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Since you brought it up...
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"American"? Did you mean "America" (maybe a spelling or proofreading error on your part?)?? Or maybe you meant "English", and you just don't know the difference....
So not one person cares? Not one? You asked them all??
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"American"? Did you mean "America" (maybe a spelling or proofreading error on your part?)?? Or maybe you meant "English", and you just don't know the difference....
So not one person cares? Not one? You asked them all??
10-19-2016, 12:01 AM
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My last name is German and if you go to a reunion you will hear at least four different versions. I've never thought to "correct" or put down one of my relatives for how they choose to say our family name.
NOGAF, and who's to say any of them are wrong?
Pick any word in the English language and visit all 50 states........ I find it very ignorant to think everyone in Germany speaks 100% the same way.
Hell, many people in England think "we" (American's) are butchering their language. Usually I don't care unless it's 2AM at Siebkens and I'm trying to say "JagUUUUar" to a couple of British gentlemen in fancy hats and curly mustaches.
There are videos of Jerry Seinfeld, Hurley Haywood, Hans Stuck, and Jay Leno pronouncing Porsche "wrong" - if they don't care, I sure as hell don't