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I really love German accents, especially with how they pronounce their t's and their w's.
 
Zach said:
I really love German accents, especially with how they pronounce their t's and their w's.
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Well basically our T's are mostly the same as in English, and our W is spoken like an English V, for example, the word Woche (=Week) would be pronounced like "Vokhe"
 
KhiliaGro said:
Well basically our T's are mostly the same as in English, and our W is spoken like an English V, for example, the word Woche (=Week) would be pronounced like "Vokhe"
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Oh right. What I was thinking of was the "th" sound which sounds like a z, such as when people say "the" with a German accent, it sounds like "ze".

I just hope that's not American corruption of German accents though.
 
Foreign accents in general are pretty hot for me. I just happen to love some more than others! Its a turn on

Speaking of W. Anyone ever questioned why it isn't a "double v?" ^_^
 
You love my Swedish English, don't ya. It has no defining traits though, I think :p
 
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I've never heard Rika speak and now I'm curious :(
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Accent challenge v5? pwetty pwetty pwease? :3

Sector said:
Foreign accents in general are pretty hot for me. I just happen to love some more than others! Its a turn on

Speaking of W. Anyone ever questioned why it isn't a "double v?" ^_^
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In German, the 'W's are pronounced like 'V's. In fact the letter itself is pronounced "V". 'V' is pronounced "fow".
 
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Accent challenge v5? pwetty pwetty pwease? :3



In German, the 'W's are pronounced like 'V's. In fact the letter itself is pronounced "V". 'V' is pronounced "fow".
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I might do this accent challenge, who knows

John, what I meant was, why is the W "Double U?"
 
In latin, the U and the V were the same letter, so each language adapted it their own way. In Spanish, it's "V doble", English went for the "doble U".

Also I believe the old accent challenge is still alive? I think? It's just a matter of cp'ing the questions anyway.

Oh and I just noticed this:

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Speaking of Germans, I was talking to a girl from Germany just yesterday, & I told her I was half German. My father's ancestors were from Germany. She said that because I lived in America, that I was 100% American. Now correct if I'm wrong, but do people really view things like that, ignoring ethnicities? America doesn't even have their own outside of Native Americans, am I not correct?
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The concept of ethnicity is SO VERY DIFFERENT in Europe and the US. In Europe, you are from the country where you were born, or where you have spent so many years of your life. If you were born in Italy and lived in France for 20 years, you are rightfully a French-Italian. Maybe if your parents were immigrants, you also claim your parental heritage is from X country. But we are very keen in integration, and there are so many plans to get second-generation African immigrants to say they are Spanish, or French, and feel like so, instead of saying they are "Moroccan" or "Algerian" like their parents.

For us, a person whose parents are American, who was born in America and who has never seen anything other than the US is American, period. Saying that you are "German" because your grandgrandgrandparents were German feels like cheating to us, because you (as a generic) probably know like zero about Germany, at least about modern-day Germany. And maybe if you act stereotypically German and live in a full-German neighborhood and speak German we could accept you are from a German family who has integrated very poorly in the US, but that's it. Also take into account that we don't tend to keep track of our heritage either (also because there have been so many countries disappearing or being born in the last Century that maybe those countries don't even exist anymore).

That has nothing to do with being conservative or progressive, in fact we tend to say how our left-wing parties, who tend to get loads of seats in our elections, would be banned from the US for being too communist.
 
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Huh? I'm from the states, and I definitely know that even if you're born in America, your ethnicity still rules when it comes to title calling. For example I'm 100% born in America, but I was always a Greek-American. Dad born here nonetheless, but mother was born there, as was her father. Still Greek-American. Maybe what Went is mentioning has to do with Anglo-Saxon countries, but definitely not Mediterranean ones.
 
In my country it works mostly like Went described as well.

Random thought after reading Went's last line: I have yet to know what is so horribly awful about socialism and communism. Will have to read more about those once exams are over.
 
Well, for one thing, I'm not keen on the idea that even though I'm going through all this school to become a biologist, I'll just end up being paid the same amount as everyone else.
 
Sounds like a discussion thread about communism in the making. But you wouldn't be paid the same as everybody else, "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" is the motto. I don't think the point is not giving people what they should like, but giving people what they need. There's a difference.
 
Yes, and the difference is that if the top dogs want, they can keep everyone impoverished for decades, and no one can do anything about it. See: North Korea, Cuba, and the Motherland.

As a note, I'm leaning towards socialism at this moment. I can't tolerate extremes, and believe everything is good in moderation, which is what Socialism is. Giving back to the people, but not too much. See Finland, and all those wonderful northern neighbors which actually work as Socialist countries. Why can't the world be like them?
 
I don't think anybody /wants/ to keep people impoverished. There are many poorly managed economies in the world, and not all of them are communist. Some countries just don't have the power or the allies or the resources to make their dreams happen. I mean, part of why the Russian standard of living went into freefall at the end of communism was their own mismanaged market-oriented reforms. And Cuba isn't really a poor country. By some indicators it's just as wealthy as its neighbours, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic for instance. You can't just pin a country's problems on the regime, it's a lot more complicated than that.
 
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