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Some people pronounce it that way I'm sure.
Why do some people pronounce Goethe like goath?
Because the German language does not have the same phonetic rules as English. Why would you pronounce a word from a different language according to English phonetics? Not that Frude is in any way a phonetic way of pronouncing Freud anyway..
Conclusion.. I don't understand the question. Pass.
It is't an English name. The whole world isn't English, remember? :) I know it was the goal at one time. Yall almost did it. I believe at one time or other Great Britain has ruled about 70% of the world.
I was thinking of Bill and Ted, who mispronounced various names in humorously phonetic ways. They pronounced Beethoven as "beeth oven", Socrates as "so crates" and they referred to Freud as the "Frude Dude".
Conclusion: I take it you haven't seen the Bill and Ted movies.
See my comment on sunmoonandstars's answer.
See my comment on sunmoonandstars's answer.
Yeah, I've seen them. So long ago that I didn't make the link.
I first saw them in 1992 and I have seen them since then, but even if that was the only time I'd seen them I would still have thought of it in relation to this question. Lol:)
Because he was from one of those countries that doesn't exist any more, where they use letters with umlauts and tildes and stuff. They didn't know how to pronounce their own language, so it's not surprising that we don't either. For example, ye, the, thee, thou, and you are all the same word spelled in different alphabets.
Today the language is called Deutsch, pronounced "doych". The various groups that speak it still can't agree on how to pronounce ich, or ach, or any such phoneme. Martin Luther went to the trouble to compile all the words that everybody agreed on, calling his collection "high German" so he could write a bible that could be understood in all German speaking countries. But they still don't all use the same alphabet.
There are 22 countries that have not been invaded by Great Britain. That is not to say they achieved rulership in every case. The rest of the world has never been stable enough to calculate any percent.
Sometimes it's just so far away... beyond the horizon so to speak.
A lot has happened in my head since the early nineties. :)
Same here, but there are some things that have stuck in my head permanently and that was one of them. Lol:)
The word "the" is not the same as "ye", "thee", "thou" and "you". I don't know where you got that from.
Is "Frankensteen" the correct way to pronounce "Frankenstein"? I've always thought it was pronounced as "Frankenstine". Lol:)
If someone had said it out loud to me, I would have remembered. Reading is different, it would not necessarily trigger the memory the same way!
I'm surprised that so many people have taken this question so seriously, SH. Since it was clearly inspired by those Bill and Ted movies, I honestly didn't expect anyone to take it seriously at all. I think I might post a few questions inspired by other silly but extremely likeable movies (e.g. "Dude, Where's My Car") and see how seriously people take those. Lol:)
Ah, I see now. Thanks for explaining, I would never have thought of that in the next 24 years if you hadn't posted that last comment. Lol:)
Clearly is relative in this context. This site goes international and to various generations. What's clearly to you might not be to others. Furthermore there's that you yourself take other aspects of the language very seriously and consider those not doing the same as trolls. There might be a connection there too. Just my view at it. Personally I don't know the Bill and Ted movies nor Dud, Where's My Car.
Lol. You are welcome.
Also, if someone said it out loud they would not be able to not do it in a Bill and Ted accent.
Plus, Frude? Really? That's pretty pants let's be honest.
