Welcome to the letter E
Merce deez nuts
Got’em!
Are these real stock picture models like Harold/distracted boyfriend, or are they AI-generated?
Either that or op and their friend posed for these photos themselves to make this mend
Maybe real? Anyone recognize that watermark?
These are 100% cgi
Murr-say-deez!
I’m fighting an urge right now…
Almonds?
In Spanish the e’s are pronounced the same way, and the same applies for German! It’s only in English that the e’s are all pronounced differently! English is such a weird language, I love it but it’s things like this which are hilarious to me.
not true in German, there all Es sound exactly the same
Same in Spanish
Same in Czech
Same in Italian
Same in Russian
At this point this thread is just making fun of English having no phonetical uniformity at all.
The first E in Mercedes sounds slightly different from the other two in German, mostly because the rhotic sound [r] modifies the tongue placement for the preceding E, forcing you to say it as either an open-mid front unrounded vowel [ɛ], or a mid near-front unrounded [ɛ̽]. The [r] prevents the vowel from being a Close-mid front unrounded vowel [e] like the 2nd and 3rd occurrences of E.
Or more simply, the first e sounds more like “bed” while the second and third sound more like “may”, assuming you’re reading this with a standard American dialect.
When I, as a German speaker, pronounce Mercedes, every e is slightly different.
Not if you pronounce it the way Germans do
It’s the same in German: /mɛʁˈt͡seːdəs/
Despite what other commentators say who are evil and eager to spread lies about the German language
On a phonetic level, some specialist will be able to discern the different E-sounds, but they’re still very similar. It’s definitely not like the English pronunciation where it’s completely different sounds.
It’s basically the three E sounds we have in German (short, long and “unstressed”) but I see that to the untrained ear, this isn’t obvious
Märzehdis
E is super flexible in German
e, ae, oe, ue, eu, ie, ei, ee all make distinct consistent sounds
However, in Spanish, which is the name’s language of origin despite being a German car, they’re the same. All e as in red. Mercedes.
Phonetical consistency…
Nunca lo entenderías…
True, it’s a common female name, or was idk. Iirc the car is named after the daughter of the inventor. The German pronunciation is the butchered version of the Spanish first name so I’m on no moral high ground
Iirc the car is named after the daughter of the inventor.
Not the inventor and it’s a bit more complicated. Emil Jellinek was selling Daimler cars, and had them participate in races for publicity. His daughter was called Mercédès Adrienne Ramona Jellinek. The historical record is a bit unclear, either he used her name as a pseudonym for a racer, or he christened one of the cars after her. In any case they won that race, gaining the name some notority which he and the Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft used for further marketing later on.
The difference is so narrow that I wouldn’t notice any difference apart from the length, the first and last e are very slightly shorter than the middle e. And of course you have the usual going-down-with-your-voice-at-the-end-of-the-word
Yes, we often call them “long” and “short” E but the short E is actually halfway to A. It’s a different vowel even though it’s written the same. The last E is the vowel we often have in unstressed syllables like gekommen, same in English upon, about. We write it as E but it’s basically the most relaxed vowel possible.
Look at this vowel chart to see and hear the differences.
Wouldn’t e halfway to a be ä
The short e in Mercedes is much closer to e than to ä
Yesn’t.
E and Ä are basically the same sounds but you use the letter Ä to indicate that the root word has an A. Fähre is derived from fahren so it has Ä but it’s the same sound as the first E in Mercedes.
At least in Austria the first e in Mercedes is much closer to e than to ä.
On the other hand many actual ä are also much closer to e than to ä in Austria so ig it might be different in Germany.
mercedeez nuts lmao gottem
What the hell, it’s originally Spanish where all the Es sound the same, then it got popularized by a German brand, where all the Es sound the same, how did it become Merceydees in English?
I read the title and immediately thought Estrogen. Explains where my head is at these days.
Mercedes Nuts
this confused me, I speak too many languages
