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minus-squareNachteule@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2年前I’m from Germany, so no native English speaker. Why does it still sound wrong in my ears? Is it the way we have to open the mouth to make those sounds, and it feels unnatural in a different order?
minus-squareSanndyTheManndy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·2年前English is basically bastardized German, so that’s probably it
minus-squarefeedum_sneedson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-22年前Or maybe it’s a Germanic language thing, Zick Zack, you know.
minus-squareearthquake@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2年前Schwip Schwap. In fact, ablaut is a German word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_ablaut It’s common to all Indo-European languages to some degree
minus-squarenehl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2年前Another reason might be, that you consumed so much English media, that you got used to the correct order?
I’m from Germany, so no native English speaker. Why does it still sound wrong in my ears? Is it the way we have to open the mouth to make those sounds, and it feels unnatural in a different order?
English is basically bastardized German, so that’s probably it
Or maybe it’s a Germanic language thing, Zick Zack, you know.
Schwip Schwap. In fact, ablaut is a German word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_ablaut
It’s common to all Indo-European languages to some degree
Another reason might be, that you consumed so much English media, that you got used to the correct order?