Quoting Joe <joe@...>:
> In my opinion, if they actually have been integrated into the language,
> adopting it into the native pronunciation is acceptable(It would wreck
> German's regularised spelling, otherwise). Pronouncing names wrong is
> unacceptable. My pet hate is pronouncing 'Schröder' as [Sr\@ud@]. My
> whole German class seems to be under the impression that Umlauts are for
> ignoring.
I feel your pain. I know people who after ten years of German classes still
cannot get into their heads that initial 's' and 'z' sound differently, and
that neither is [s].
Andreas