fun fact: the word "Yacht" derives from old german "Jagd", which means hunt, it was used by the dutch as "Yacht" and the fast sailing boats got their names from there. But basically, all germanic, slavic and romantic languages pronounce the vowels the same way EXCEPT english, where they fuck up literally every single vowel

Das Yacht sounds pleasing to you? I can understand why, given das Schiff, das Boot, etc.*, but I much prefer die Yacht, because of die Macht. Can I ask if you’re a native speaker/like native (for example if you learned German from age three in school) or a nonnative speaker?

I ask because I’m a nonnative German teacher and there are certain geni that bother basically all nonnative speakers (das Lob should clearly be der Lob, for example) but don’t stand out to native speakers and I’m very interested in the language sense that people develop as native vs nonnative speakers.

• die Fregatte, die Trireme, und die Galeone unter anderen sind aber auch weiblich und sind auch Fremdwörter für bestimmte Arten Schiffe.

As in English.

Why are Yachts called she

TIL that Jägermeister and Yacht have the same root.

Linguistics is fun and weird.

Wow. That is a beast. Definitely showcases some of the finer points of our weird language.

I think there are at least three versions from the original author, IIRC.

Me to the Japanese every day.

Someone beat you to it but they deleted their comment :(

No doubt mate.

They should unblur it before posting it here.

Lookout guys, we got a badbutt over here.

eh people always point to German but they just use compound words more often. if you know the parts that make up the word it shouldn't be hard to parse.

What does that mean

German is wild! I never managed to get I to stick.

Elektriciteitsproductiemaatschappij or basically electricity producing company.

I prefer "angstschreeuw" as word to annoy foreigners with. 7 consonants in a row!

Nope, but it does come up if you get tested for breast cancer.

Point is, that yacht isn't a difficult word at all. Especially not if you're European, since the word for yacht in many European languages is... yacht.

It's a medical term or word or whatever. But it is not easy to pronounce at all. That's the thing with Danish. We have a lot of letters that are silent or changes sound depending on what letters they are next to and sometimes just because.

Even if you have skildvagtslymfeknudeundersøgelse broken down for you, I doubt you'd be able to pronounce it correctly because several repeat letters in that word are pronounced differently and some of them are silent.

Words like: ord, ost, mos, mos and orden all have vastly different ways of pronouncing the o and mos and mos are completely different words with completely different pronunciations where you can literally only tell which one it is based on context in the text. By themselves, you will not know.

Every language has their little quirks like that, but everybody knows how to pronounce yacht as yacht is the word for fancy boat in many languages. The post above is basically like being impressed that a foreigner knows how to pronounce "okay".

It is a medical word for getting tested for breast cancer. I didn't bring it up because it is a difficult word to understand, but because it is difficult to pronounce correctly without stumbling over it. Yacht is not difficult in any way since our word for yacht is also yacht and because the spellings and sounds are pretty common in for example German, which is another language we are being taught from an early age.

Of course, all languages and their difficulties are relative depending on where in the world you live, but if you're European, especially western European, then it is pretty silly to be impressed that people can pronounce yacht.

Having a long word like skildvagtslymfeknudeundersøgelse is a lot more tricky since it's a bit of a tongue twister to pronounce and if you aren't well versed in Danish, you will also not know when or how to pronounce each letter, as several of them have different sounds or no sounds at all at different places in the word. That is why I brought it up.

Like yogurt without the 'ur'

https://voca.ro/1j3aWaVZBOPo

It is pronounced pretty much the same way in a number of different languages.

Just like it's spelled if you omit the "ch" because English people are unable to fathom unusual digraphs.

And the algorithm is programmed to follow particularly American puritanical values, as they are aimed at the American consumer market, but of course on account of the universal nature of the internet, we all get to enjoy the results of it now.

No shit!

LOL, do you have any idea how many times that's been tried?

Right?

What do people think the French and Spanish were doing?

It's like they forget that Spain financed Columbus, and it was Spain that rampaged through what is now Central America, and destroyed all the works (who knows how much of history was lost?) of the Mayans and Aztecs.

Spain then went on to install Maximillion as king of Mexico.

There's a lot more in between there that I've forgotten, but holy hell the Conquistadors put the English to shame when it comes to outright brutality and destruction.

Thank you for helping my point. Also.... Aaaaaa... Why is the so many characters?!