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I truly believe you overestimate the pronunciation abilities of non-German English speakers attempting to pronounce German. They will say “spits candidate” and call it a day.
Is this a word missed by an otherwise very good machine translation, or has Spitzenkandidat entered European English?
This has to be an error. “Top candidates,” in case it saves anyone a click.
No, it’s used, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitzenkandidat
I swear… We English speakers seem to view German compound words as some sort of untranslatable magic. I bet they pronounce it horribly as well.
It’s relatively straightforward to pronounce, “spit-sin-candy-dat” is reasonably close to the German pronunciation.
Brb gonna call VdL “candy” quickly
I meant, I bet many English speakers mispronounce the word. Sorry about the confusion.
Oh, no misunderstanding afaik. I meant to say that the word is not that hard to pronounce even for non-Germans.
I truly believe you overestimate the pronunciation abilities of non-German English speakers attempting to pronounce German. They will say “spits candidate” and call it a day.
It’s a loan word. They say Spitzenkandidat in the Netherlands, too.