• @EndOfLine
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    1041 month ago

    Wait until he notices the C’s in “Pacific Ocean”.

      • @aeronmelon
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        221 month ago

        Did you recently become a father? Because that was one of the better dad jokes.

        • @[email protected]
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          131 month ago

          I earned my dad joke card in 1985 when I came around the corner carrying a joke book and like 7 kids groaned.

          is old

      • @Dasus
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        31 month ago

        In terms of geography, seas are smaller than oceans and are usually located where the land and ocean meet. Typically, seas are partially enclosed by land. Seas are found on the margins of the ocean and are partially enclosed by land.

    • NickwithaC
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      61 month ago

      Give me more of these!

  • @lugal
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    871 month ago

    It’s the same in German: /mɛʁˈt͡seːdəs/

    Despite what other commentators say who are evil and eager to spread lies about the German language

    • @Ultraviolet
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      351 month ago

      However, in Spanish, which is the name’s language of origin despite being a German car, they’re the same. All e as in red. Mercedes.

      • @lugal
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        121 month ago

        True, it’s a common female name, or was idk. Iirc the car is named after the daughter of the inventor. The German pronunciation is the butchered version of the Spanish first name so I’m on no moral high ground

        • @[email protected]
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          330 days ago

          Iirc the car is named after the daughter of the inventor.

          Not the inventor and it’s a bit more complicated. Emil Jellinek was selling Daimler cars, and had them participate in races for publicity. His daughter was called Mercédès Adrienne Ramona Jellinek. The historical record is a bit unclear, either he used her name as a pseudonym for a racer, or he christened one of the cars after her. In any case they won that race, gaining the name some notority which he and the Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft used for further marketing later on.

    • @SpaceNoodle
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      111 month ago

      E is super flexible in German

      e, ae, oe, ue, eu, ie, ei, ee all make distinct consistent sounds

    • Ephera
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      111 month ago

      On a phonetic level, some specialist will be able to discern the different E-sounds, but they’re still very similar. It’s definitely not like the English pronunciation where it’s completely different sounds.

      • @lugal
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        61 month ago

        It’s basically the three E sounds we have in German (short, long and “unstressed”) but I see that to the untrained ear, this isn’t obvious

    • @[email protected]
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      81 month ago

      The difference is so narrow that I wouldn’t notice any difference apart from the length, the first and last e are very slightly shorter than the middle e. And of course you have the usual going-down-with-your-voice-at-the-end-of-the-word

      • @lugal
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        21 month ago

        Yes, we often call them “long” and “short” E but the short E is actually halfway to A. It’s a different vowel even though it’s written the same. The last E is the vowel we often have in unstressed syllables like gekommen, same in English upon, about. We write it as E but it’s basically the most relaxed vowel possible.

        Look at this vowel chart to see and hear the differences.

          • @lugal
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            128 days ago

            Yesn’t.

            E and Ä are basically the same sounds but you use the letter Ä to indicate that the root word has an A. Fähre is derived from fahren so it has Ä but it’s the same sound as the first E in Mercedes.

            • @[email protected]
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              228 days ago

              At least in Austria the first e in Mercedes is much closer to e than to ä.

              On the other hand many actual ä are also much closer to e than to ä in Austria so ig it might be different in Germany.

  • @bazingabot
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    251 month ago

    not true in German, there all Es sound exactly the same

    • manucode
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      301 month ago

      When I, as a German speaker, pronounce Mercedes, every e is slightly different.

    • @Wilzax
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      101 month ago

      The first E in Mercedes sounds slightly different from the other two in German, mostly because the rhotic sound [r] modifies the tongue placement for the preceding E, forcing you to say it as either an open-mid front unrounded vowel [ɛ], or a mid near-front unrounded [ɛ̽]. The [r] prevents the vowel from being a Close-mid front unrounded vowel [e] like the 2nd and 3rd occurrences of E.

      Or more simply, the first e sounds more like “bed” while the second and third sound more like “may”, assuming you’re reading this with a standard American dialect.

  • @HerbSolo
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    201 month ago

    Me as a kid, having just learned english, listening to Janis Joplin: “What the fuck is a mercy dispense!?”

    • RQG
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      When you pray for the lord to have mercy, they have to dispense it somehow. That part made sense to me as a kid.

      However why would God have to buy one? And from whom? Who manufactures these mercy dispensers for God? Why wouldn’t God just make them into existence?

      When I learned that it was Mercedes Benz I came to understand that even God needs to abide by trademark law.

  • Ephera
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    161 month ago

    What the hell, it’s originally Spanish where all the Es sound the same, then it got popularized by a German brand, where all the Es sound the same, how did it become Merceydees in English?

  • @Treczoks
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    161 month ago

    But only in English. In the original German, all three e’s are actually the same.

  • @renzev
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    131 month ago

    Merce deez nuts

  • @Wilzax
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    121 month ago

    Not if you pronounce it the way Germans do

  • @3ntranced
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    91 month ago

    If you add Benz you get a 4th E sound