Polynikes wrote:
Interesting that Schlanker is pronounced Schl-U-nker. I didn't know that - is there a reason?
The German who discovered Troy was Schliemann - I assumed that is pronounced SH-L-EE-MAN.
of course, there is a reason... it's normal German pronounciation :/\
I just wrote Sh-lunker, because in such a constellation the English U is similar to the German A. I could always have written "Sh-lanker" but then, some Englisch-speaking/English-thinking folks would have meant, it is like "Shlenker", you know?
Schliemann, I guess, you pronounced it the right way, but remember:
German "Mann" is not similiar to the pronounciation of the English "man"... It's more like "munn" (in English), like "Sh-Lee-munn"
hope I didn't confuse you
btw:
Polynikes wrote:
No I can't think of any German name/word beginning SL like sleep. It seems where SL is concerned, the "SH" element of German pronounciation is spelled out
that's because in German there is no letter comparable to the English S, I mean: the German S is the same as the English Z, and for the sound of a "deaf" S, there's the ß or SS, or S, but none of them ever occur at the beginning of a word. there are just words like "Spaß", "Hass", "Gras" and so one. And if we wrote words beginning with SL, it would be like ZL, and now try to speak that