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credit to AceBonobo@lemmy.world for a comment on my previous “make it so” post Any suggestions for a follow-up?
minus-squarewatersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·2 years agoAmericans have no idea how to pronounce van Gogh. Literally none of the phonemes in Gogh are pronounced similar to the phonemes in “go”.
minus-squaremosiacmango@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoYou mainly get “van go,” but also the occasional “van goth.”
minus-squarewatersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 years agoAt least that last one gets the “o” sound right (but nothing else). “G” is a velar fricative, “o” is the short o as in “top”, and “gh” is the hardest, raspiest fricative you can muster.
minus-squarewatersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoNo, not like that. That uses the English g sound.
Americans have no idea how to pronounce van Gogh. Literally none of the phonemes in Gogh are pronounced similar to the phonemes in “go”.
You mainly get “van go,” but also the occasional “van goth.”
At least that last one gets the “o” sound right (but nothing else).
“G” is a velar fricative, “o” is the short o as in “top”, and “gh” is the hardest, raspiest fricative you can muster.
Like the Klingon dish gagh?
Van ga-ock
No, not like that. That uses the English g sound.