Or is it just that there are alot of German gays?
2006-12-22 13:21:25 · 16 answers · asked by LeviTosh 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
There are little to no TH sounds in German phoenetics. Thtupid great scheith-kopf.
2006-12-22 13:32:10 · answer #1 · answered by Mary W 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. I've lived in Germany and the majority of Germans don't talk with a lisp, neither in German nor in English. They pronounce the English 'th' sound as 's' a lot because they don't have that sound in German and so find it hard to pronounce, but this can't be what you're talking about. A lisp, surely, is when you pronounce 's' as 'th'. How many Germans have you actually ever spoken to?
2006-12-23 10:51:25 · answer #2 · answered by jammycaketin 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What part of Germany were you in? I've never encountered any Germans with a lisp -- or were they speaking English? If so, they may have had a teacher who lisped. But German is such a forceful language it's hard to even imagine a lisping German.
2006-12-22 23:20:14 · answer #3 · answered by old lady 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
?? None of the German people I know have lisps. Neither when speaking in German nor when speaking in English. So I ask you, are you just trying to make a racist comment??
2006-12-22 21:26:22 · answer #4 · answered by ana_is_a_cat 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I live in germany and have never heard a German with a lisp.
2006-12-25 07:34:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I´ve lived in Germany and never observed that Germans have lisps any more than people in the U.S. do. However, if you're talking about their accents in English, it has to do with the way they learn to pronounce esses in their language. And, yes, that is the correct spelling for the letter "s" in English.
2006-12-22 21:40:43 · answer #6 · answered by quietwalker 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They don't have a TH sound, (or a W sound), so they can't pronounce it properly.
I bet they say the same about many of us not being able to pronounce the throaty sounds like the CH in Ich (it isn't ik or ish, it's a sound made at the back of the throat), as we don't have any in English (Scots excepted).
2006-12-23 13:04:16 · answer #7 · answered by AndyB 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I hear because the person that developed their language (some king or whatever) had a lisp and people learned to speak like him
2006-12-22 23:58:04 · answer #8 · answered by Jessica R 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
1st not many germans have lisps
2nd i think we don't have more gays than you do
3rd we have different s-sounds than you (e.g. no th)
2006-12-23 05:00:06 · answer #9 · answered by tine 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Silence! Vee vill ask zee questions here....
2006-12-22 21:31:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋