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Cake day: June 24th, 2024

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  • I’ve seen an Irish youtuber that works in a bakery and talks a lot about cakes as well. I suspect it might be an Anglosphere thing.

    In German and French, there’s Bäckerei and boulangerie for bread related stuff and some sweet wares like croissant or fruit tarts. But full on cakes you would get in a Konditorei or pâtisserie.









  • Even among the other stress timed languages, English is especially reductive. In German, a final “en” gets folded into the word; “haben” becomes “ham”. But in almost all other cases, unstressed vowels retain their pronunciation.

    Motor as two distinct o-sounds and doesn’t become moter/motur. Or the word “specialised” could have the “e” maybe but def the “ia” turn into a schwa. Meanwhile “spezialisiert” retains every vowel as they were.


  • Same as every american sketch comic trying to do a German accent, does a Brüno imitation (Sasha Baron Cohen’s character).
    Brüno’s accent is really good, being a mixture of many characteristics, one of them German, another being typical gay speech patterns.
    So now everyone who thinks they’re doing a German accent, does a gay German Brüno voice. Not quite right.