Worst thing about the new campaign: The bad German accent, the badly pronounced German words, the fandom trying to write out the accent phonetically (don’t. Ever. With any accent.), people scrambling to spell the badly pronounced German words.
(Liam’s German is fine. And I’m sure his accent is fine by what Americans think Germans sound like standards.)
The town is called Trostenwald. Their beer is called Trost. That means solace. Naming a beer solace is a very German thing to do, to be fair. Wald means forest. They are in Solace Forest.
The family is called Baumbach. The au part is not pronounced as an o. We are not French. It’s uh-oooh. Or like “about” without the consonants. It means tree and stream. As in tiny river.
The German word “Vater” is pronounced just like father, but without the h. The V makes an F sound. Sam said it at one point.
I think Caleb referred to Nott as “Das ist meine Mädchen” or “Das ist meine Liebchen.” Couldn’t tell on the spot. It either means “that’s my girl” or “that’s my dear”. “Meine” is not the right form of my, though, because everything ending in -chen is a dimunitive and gets neuter pronouns. Kind of like the Japanese -chan, actually, but not used to address people at all.
(And that’s why the German word for girl isn’t feminine but neuter. Wheee.)
I’m not even going to try and explain how the “ch” is pronounced. There’s two different ways.
Okay, like, if you’ve read this rant up until this point, I guess I can put in the minimal effort of trying to sound it out on vocaroo. That used to have better recording quality back in my day. I am so sorry.
https://vocaroo.com/i/s1Q8CDbF8FnH
…I’ll stop now.
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