Yo, Paul Ryan! Atlas Didn't Shrug, She Put Her Hand Out

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

On 26.01.2011 17:23, Ray Easton wrote:
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> Is this something special about this particular *name* 'Kant'?
>
> Or is this a "typical" German pronunciation of the vowel 'a'?  If the
> latter, please give me some examples, if you don't mind.
>
> Ray
>
>

It is a very typical German pronounciation of the vowel 'a'.

(If it was a long 'a' (like in you people's Immanuel 'Can't'), there's 
nearly always either an 'h' behind the 'a' - take "Kahn" or "Bahn" - or 
a double vowel like in "Saal", "Aal" or "Paar; an exception would be "Tal".)

Examples à la Kant/Cunt: "Pfand", "Sand", "Hand", "Wand", "Land" ...

The special thing about names in general is that wrong pronounciation of 
them could be considered as rude in a personal way.

Kai