How much german will I need to understand?

[Quark]

They've always gotta do things different to everyone else don't they

I wonder who's meant here.

 

[Alix]

I wonder who's meant here.

I'm just shit-stirring

 

[Quark]

I'm just shit-stirring

 

[Colamann3798]

Sure there is!
"I knew you'd do a poo"
If you pronounced the underlined as "ü" in the above sentence (as stupid as it is ), and said it to pretty much any native English speaker, they'd be pretty impressed with your pronunciation. I don't know where this idea that the "ü" sound doesn't exist in the English language, but as you can see there too many ways to spell it. Fuck I hate the English language

Well, the Scot I mentioned would have pronounced it that way, and I can't say anything about Aussies. But the typical native English speaker propably wouldn't recognize the difference between what I'd write as "u" and "ü", in the same way I can't really tell if a Norwegian word uses a y, as opposed to an i or a u.

The Englishmen and Americans I met pronounced the underlined sounds the way the u is spoken in German.

 

[Guardian of Silence]

Well, the Scot I mentioned would have pronounced it that way, and I can't say anything about Aussies. But the typical native English speaker propably wouldn't recognize the difference between what I'd write as "u" and "ü", in the same way I can't really tell if a Norwegian word uses a y, as opposed to an i or a u.

The Englishmen and Americans I met pronounced the underlined sounds the way the u is spoken in German.

Exactly that is my problem.

 

[Quark]

Coeld yoe doe me a favour? (Dutch oe = German u)

But maybe FO would know where to find the fonetic characters you need.

 

[Quark]

Well, the Scot I mentioned would have pronounced it that way, and I can't say anything about Aussies. But the typical native English speaker propably wouldn't recognize the difference between what I'd write as "u" and "ü", in the same way I can't really tell if a Norwegian word uses a y, as opposed to an i or a u.

The Englishmen and Americans I met pronounced the underlined sounds the way the u is spoken in German.

I thought so too. Hence my remark.
And Alix is right about the Aussi pronounciation. But it's a thin line.

 

[Alix]

Well, the Scot I mentioned would have pronounced it that way, and I can't say anything about Aussies. But the typical native English speaker propably wouldn't recognize the difference between what I'd write as "u" and "ü", in the same way I can't really tell if a Norwegian word uses a y, as opposed to an i or a u.

The Englishmen and Americans I met pronounced the underlined sounds the way the u is spoken in German.

curiouser and curiouser...

 

[Colamann3798]

In what way?

 

[Alix]

I've never heard any native English speaker from anywhere who didn't ever pronounce the 'ü' sound. It'll be much easier to discuss this topic in person than on the internet anyway

 

[Colamann3798]

Exactly

 

[Guardian of Silence]

I've never heard any native English speaker from anywhere who didn't ever pronounce the 'ü' sound. It'll be much easier to discuss this topic in person than on the internet anyway

okay, i'll just write "ü", if i want someone to pronounce a letter as "ü".