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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    3 hours ago

    Same with Robert ‘Muller’. His name’s spelled Mueller, so by German language rules it would seem it should be pronounced ‘Müller’ (‘ue’ in English being a substitute for the umlauted ‘u’).

    This one gets a pass from me because the German vowel “ü” doesn’t exist in English. Are you going to complain to ze Germans that they can’t natively pronounce the th, too?

    • Arghblarg@lemmy.ca
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      24 minutes ago

      Yeah, you’re right there, that one makes more sense as it isn’t a common sound in English.