[meteorite-list] Gegenschein - pronounce

From: Chris Peterson <clp_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 16:10:12 -0600
Message-ID: <063A2BD567E2400280BC5920F08900EE_at_bellatrix>

There's not necessarily anything wrong with GAY-gen as the correct German
pronunciation. It really comes down to how you pronounce "gay"; there are
regional variants of English that pronounce the "ay" as a single vowel sound
(that's how it is in German), and others that make it a diphthong, something
like "ayee". If you say it the first way, you're going to be very close or
identical to the German pronunciation.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob King" <nightsky55 at gmail.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 12:45 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Gegenschein - pronounce


> Even though I learned to pronounce 'gegen' in my German classes as
> GAY-gen I must defer to Bernd, a native speaker.
> Cheers from the guy who can't seem to stop posting ;)
> Bob
Received on Sun 16 May 2010 06:10:12 PM PDT