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25 Aug 2008, 3:20 pm

Hi Mage,

Nice to meet you.
Your first quess was spot on. Chapeau!

The Yankee story isn't important at all for me. A bit of a light note, or something, and I didn't know there were other theories.

Best of luck to you,
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26 Aug 2008, 7:28 am

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I'm not sure why so many people are talking about the original Austrian pronunciation - we're not speaking German, so why pronounce it like that? Most foreign words are not pronounced as they are in their original language.


My name in non native form is pronounced close to Kate... A girls name


I don't understand, sorry.

I have a friend called 'Nikyta' - in India this a girl's name, but in Russia it is a boy's name. And I knew a boy called Nikola. It was pronounced like 'Nicola'. He was from Bulgaria.

Ceesjan - I'd say it 'Seez-yan'. How is your name pronounced?



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26 Aug 2008, 9:00 am

He said my guess of "case-yan" was right, though I'm still not sure how. :lol:

Anyhow Nikola IS a boy's name! Haven't you ever heard of Nikola Tesla?



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26 Aug 2008, 9:46 am

Hi ya,

The pronunciation of Asperger isn't really that important, neither is it with my name. I'm not being very serious about it.

But Mage, with your beautiful avatar (did you know that A. Hepburn had a Dutch mother), you had it right when you opted for 'case-yan'; Like in best 'case' scenario (or worst-....) and Jan you'll know it. I believe it's a womans name in the States and other countries as well.

But hey.....

Best of luck to you all,
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11 Aug 2010, 10:14 pm

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This video is about people who think everything about them is because they have aspergers.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItuqYNgckjM[/youtube]


I've just seen this here on the forums last night and I like her pronunciation better: A-sper-jers.



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11 Aug 2010, 11:39 pm

^Her pronunciation is irritating.



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I now pronounce it "ɑːs-pɛr-gər" (approx. 'us-PAIR-ger'), with a hard 'g'.


Correct.

That's the German and Austrian pronunciation.


Agreed.

German is my first language. I lived in southern Germany (Black Forest region) as a child and my ancesters are from the Austro-Hungarian area and south Germany. My own last name is very similar to "Asperger". The correct pronunciation of my surname rhymes with "AWS-pair-ger" with the emphasis on the first syllable and a hard "g".

The above is the correct pronunciation. Also the final "r" sound is different than the English pronunciation of "r" Instead of pushing the "r" out, the tongue is rolled back. It's often a difficult sound for native Anglophones to make.



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12 Aug 2010, 2:09 am

The word is being spit into different speeds. 3 syllables, 3 speeds. Ideally, the word should have the same speed



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12 Aug 2010, 2:25 am

Keith wrote:
The word is being spit into different speeds. 3 syllables, 3 speeds. Ideally, the word should have the same speed


What exactly do you mean by "the word is being spit into different speeds"?

Emphasis on a syllable has nothing to do with speed.



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12 Aug 2010, 3:03 am

The word being split into three. As is common as per gers. Each section gets a different vocal input ungoverned by speed.

I watched a video, with an English accent attempt, but was determined finally to be fake by one word alone. Assassin.

I study the language in my spare time



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12 Aug 2010, 5:56 am

Keith wrote:
The word being split into three. As is common as per gers. Each section gets a different vocal input ungoverned by speed.

I watched a video, with an English accent attempt, but was determined finally to be fake by one word alone. Assassin.

I study the language in my spare time


Your response is so disjointed and spare that I'm not sure what you are trying to convey.

I have heard Asperger's pronounced a few different ways, most of them wrong. But, I have never heard it vocally pronounced "split into three". I'm not sure where you've gotten that impression from.

When it's being written that way, and split into syllables, the written splits are not to denote actual vocal stops or pauses in speed of vocalization. It is merely a phonetic type of breakdown of the word for clarity of pronunciation. When vocalized there is no split.



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12 Aug 2010, 6:26 am

Uspurdjurs. :)



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12 Aug 2010, 6:53 am

I am from England and I always pronounced it as Asper 'j' ers. But my doctor (a pshyciatrist) pronounces it like 'burger'.

I don't know what the proper way to say it is.



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12 Aug 2010, 11:20 am

I pronounce it uh-SPUR-ghers, with the accent on the 2nd syllable.



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12 Aug 2010, 11:29 am

It should be pronouced, as it's seen...not ass burgers.


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12 Aug 2010, 12:06 pm

Robdemanc wrote:
I am from England and I always pronounced it as Asper 'j' ers. But my doctor (a pshyciatrist) pronounces it like 'burger'.

I don't know what the proper way to say it is.

It seems it's generally pronounced with a soft j sound in the UK and with a hard g sound in the US.



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12 Aug 2010, 6:05 pm

I pronounce it with a soft J sound. With a hard G (burger) it just sounds silly, for obvious reasons.


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