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Double Standard (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 4 months ago by PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[–] rainynight65@feddit.de 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My German father, who lived and worked in Budapest for a long time, pronounced it wrong. I rarely have cause to use the name but when I do, I try to do it justice.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't say it's wrong if he pronounced it the German way in German speech. I mean I also don't go around saying My grandma lives is Moskwa and I met my husband in Sankt Peterburg just to keep the native pronunciation. If he talks Hungarian and pronounces it wrong within a Hungarian sentence though...

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

In German in recent decades it's fashionable/expected to pronounce central European cities the way the inhabitants do. Probably due to the wars and the ethnic transformations..

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Sure? I have never heard anyone say Praha or Warszova or anything

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Me neither. If someone here in Germany started saying Lisboa or Barcelona I would be thrown off and, very honestly, also find it a tiny bit pretentious.

Edit: throwing in the question how to pronounce towns that are on a border and have both kinds of pronunciations used by inhabitants

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Bratislava instead of Pressburg, Ljubljana instead of Laibach, Zagreb instead of Agram.

Lwiw/Lemberg or Brno/Brünn is probably both used.

Prag and Warschau as well as Krakau are firmly used instead of the local ones.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

Ok, true. It's a slow process but the trend is there