the german way unless it's an american name, in which case i gotta get damn verification

Kernig and Myooler. Isn't that how everyone pronounces those?

Literally the only people who don’t get upset about it are the ones who speak whatever language it is.

It depends on the exact word and context, like if you go to Japan and say Hay mmmburrrgurrrr をいただきたいです, it sounds so bad.

I agree with the role Rocinante plays for sure.

I just don't think that makes the name of the horse a good question. It's like asking the name of John Wick's dog. The whole movie hinges on the dog, but what name it has is irrelevant.

The point of reading something like Don Quixote isn't the names. Even Pancho's name is barely important. Hell, I'd even argue that the fact we're talking about Don Quixote rather than Alonso Quixano even illustrates that names aren't exactly the prime bit of information that matters.

Now, it is hard to discuss the story without factoring in name changes. Aldonza/Dulcinea in specific is maybe the biggest symbol of what the Don is experiencing, and the underlying theme of the story. But the specific names? It's just a bad question for a high school English teacher to ask a student.

My reasoning is that, no matter what else is retained, names only serve as a point of reference in damn near all literature. When an early exposure to old school, classical literature is happening, the student is going to already be learning three or four things at once, and memorizing the name of a non dialogue character doesn't serve do achieve that learning, or even test how much that student retained.

You've got them trying to learn how to read critically, how to read archaic styles, how to retain important factors, and how to express what they've picked up. The name of an animal that's essentially stage dressing akin to the sword or armor? That's entirely the wrong question.

What would be a good one is, "what does Quixote's horse symbolize?" Or even, "what do you think about his horse?". Both would get the student thinking rather than trying to just pull up a word that's arbitrary.

that is why the Barthelona thing is so pedantic. In Catalan is pronounced more like "barsalona"

I have no idea about 'c' becoming 'th'. I was referring to the 't' at the end that the above comment made 'the' when breaking it down, which they have mentioned in a reply was an auto-correct error.

The Spanish I know is not generally NA influenced.

The th pronunciation is Spanish.

In Catalan c before e or i is pronounced like a hard s.

It's the Spaniard pronunciation. Virtually everyone else would pronounce it as "see".

They're right, afaik. An as in land, te as in test.

Hm... Ro as in Ross..? The rest is the correct pronunciation, yes.

Maybe, I don't know... an as in anvil and te as in tenant..? English, being several unrelated languages in a trenchcoat, can be a bit weird, and pronunciation varies excessively with dialects...

The vowels in Castilian (aka Spanish outside of Spain and other Castilian speaking countries) are very simple, five vowels, five sounds, pronounced more or less as they would have been in Latin.

C is pronounced like a k or a hard z, never as an s (except in some dialects).

Rocinante. From rocín and antes, for he was a rocín (old horse) before being Quijote's steed (also during, but the old man wasn't all there).