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Originally Posted by Rerun
So if ä sounds like the ea in bear, why doesn't he spell his name "Beartschi"?
Very confusing.
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Because German isn't pronounced exactly the same as English? How is that confusing? I don't think German uses "ea" and I'm not sure how that would be pronounced.
Lang for example is the German equivalent of
long and is actually pronounced close to how we pronounce long. In English we would pronounce that word
Laing. Although English isn't exactly consistent in this usage. You'll notice that the A in
bang sounds like ai or how we pronounce the letter A, while the A in
bar is more like how the Deutsch speakers would pronounce A's.
So if Bartschi didn't have the umlaut (ä) it would be pronounced close to Bar-chi. But since it does have the umlaut the sound of vowel changes to something close to Bear-chi or Bair-chi
Deutsch/German has a lot more consistent pronounciation. English is actually the confusing one as we've borrowed a lot of words from German and French and inconsistencies abound in rules and pronounciation.