Re: OT: German reputation

Yann Kiraly wrote:

>I think german has a bad reputation because I now a frensh family, whose
>younger son, who was about to learn german at school, ran around the house
>making weird grunts and calling it german. And what about the reputation of
>being hard that finnish has? And actually, the germans (e.g. we) think the
>frensh are funny because they leave out h's everywhere. That's how we
>produce a frensh sounding german: leave out the h's. This looks like this:
>Ich* ge'e in das aus, wo es frischen Ammelbraten und Interschinken gibt.
>A nother example would be that the english speakers of the world turn all
>the th's into s's when imitating germans. Get the picture?
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 But there is no [h] in 'gehe', is there?  I've only heard it pronounced
[ge:@].

German generally has a reputation for sounding harsh in English-speaking
countries - as does any language, in general, which uses [x](eg.
Welsh).  It's just that German is one of the better known ones.

Also, it's 'French' in English, though it is generally pronounced [fr\EnS].