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explaining the civil war to americans: "imagine if slaves had no burger" (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Not really, the words are pronounced differently

Although I've seen the email address burger@[domain] and wondered why anyone would have an address named after a food - until realising the sender was a Mr. Burger (pronounced like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/De-Burg.ogg + er).

Also, the food burger is pronounced almost like the Americans do because we took the English pronunciation and modified it slightly to fit existing German sounds.

The "ü" in Bürger however is pronounced like the "ue" in the French word rue, which is a sound that doesn't exist in English.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I just realised we pronounce Burger like Böaga

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

If true, I'll rue the day I made this post.