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13 Mar 2009, 3:36 pm

Nephesh wrote:
Due to the jokes of NT's who want to make fun of us by calling it assburgers,

That's because they don't know that the 'e' is pronounced as in 'better'.



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13 Mar 2009, 3:59 pm

I pronounce it with the "g" in "get" although I have heard some pronouce it like a "j."


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13 Mar 2009, 3:59 pm

Gromit wrote:
Nephesh wrote:
Due to the jokes of NT's who want to make fun of us by calling it assburgers,

That's because they don't know that the 'e' is pronounced as in 'better'.


Which e in better, the first or second? and which e in Asperger's...or both of them...I'm trying to 'hear' how that sounds and now I'm confused!



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13 Mar 2009, 4:05 pm

ephemerella wrote:
In Spain, where soft G's get turned into J's, and then get pronounced as H's (like "George"->"Jorge" gets pronounced "Hor Hay"), would they pronounce it "Ass Bear Hair"?


probably

the spanish even refuse to call people by their real name if they got a spanish equivalent. "hi im peter!" "pedro?" "no, no peee-terrr" "peeee-droooo"



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13 Mar 2009, 9:19 pm

EarthAngel19 wrote:
or like the g in germ?


You just need to follow the German pronunciation. § 22 of the Official Rules (ed. 2004, p. 26) defines that a "g" shall pronounced as [g] (International Phonetic Alphabet):

http://www.ids-mannheim.de/reform/regelwerk.pdf



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13 Mar 2009, 9:27 pm

MONKEY wrote:
I pronounce "j"
It's makes me giggle when I hear it pronounced ass-burgers, it's harder to take seriously, like if someone was giving a presentation on it and pronounced "g" I'd be too busy thinking about burgers coming out of people's arses and would probably burst out laughing half way through, causing the audience to go silent.


For a native German speaker it is not a common name, but in its structure not unusually. Perhaps one of Prof. Asperger's ancestors came from Asperg, a town north of Stuttgart.



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13 Mar 2009, 9:28 pm

Gromit wrote:
Nephesh wrote:
Due to the jokes of NT's who want to make fun of us by calling it assburgers,

That's because they don't know that the 'e' is pronounced as in 'better'.

All vowels which are not stressed are schwaed in english. Since the stresses in Asperger's fall on the first and third syllables in most pronunciations, there is no choice but to pronounce the first e as a reduced vowel. Since the p follows an s, it is not aspirated, which makes it very close to the b sound in english. Since the e is not stressed and it precedes and r, the r is made syllabic. Hence, the pronunciation is very close to Ass-burgers.


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13 Mar 2009, 9:43 pm

twoshots wrote:
Gromit wrote:
Nephesh wrote:
Due to the jokes of NT's who want to make fun of us by calling it assburgers,

That's because they don't know that the 'e' is pronounced as in 'better'.

All vowels which are not stressed are schwaed in english.


But it is a German name, so you need to pronounce it German, with open vowels, here even as [e:] (International Phonetic Alphabet)



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13 Mar 2009, 9:48 pm

Right, but the vowel reduction in unstressed syllables is a standard feature of the English stress system. Pronouncing it according to the German equivalent is reasonable where a reasonable approximation occurs in English, but most speakers will find it challenging, at least, to enunciate each vowel when speaking casually.


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13 Mar 2009, 11:47 pm

G as in get because it is correct! Also, the A in the German name is suposed to be pronounced as the A in "calm", and not as the A in "as". In Norwegian Asperger`s is pronounced ass-perr-gesh, with a as calm, 1st e as a in as, g for get and finally the 2nd e as the e in better.



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14 Mar 2009, 1:08 pm

twoshots wrote:
Right, but the vowel reduction in unstressed syllables is a standard feature of the English stress system. Pronouncing it according to the German equivalent is reasonable where a reasonable approximation occurs in English, but most speakers will find it challenging, at least, to enunciate each vowel when speaking casually.


But is necessary to learn if you want to pronounce German word correctly. German does not have a rigid system of stresses and therefore pronouncing vowels in stressed and unstressed syllables wouldn't make any sense. I use e.g. Italian words, you will pronounce those in the Italian manner too - and-so-on.