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

[Erik T. Burns]

Don't forget that for many of us the sum total of our knowledge of
philosophy comes from Monty Python's "The Philosopher's Song," which
rhymes Kant with pissant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_WRFJwGsbY

On Jan 26, 2011, at 17:00, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:

> On 26.01.2011 17:23, Ray Easton wrote:
>>
>> 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
>