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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•2 years agoI’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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•edit-22 years agoOr maybe it’s a Germanic language thing, Zick Zack, you know.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink8•2 years agoEnglish is basically bastardized German, so that’s probably it
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•2 years agoAnother reason might be, that you consumed so much English media, that you got used to the correct order?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•2 years agoSchwip 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
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?
Or maybe it’s a Germanic language thing, Zick Zack, you know.
English is basically bastardized German, so that’s probably it
Another reason might be, that you consumed so much English media, that you got used to the correct order?
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