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HelpRe: English opinion on German names
in reply to a message by StarryEyes
Thank you!
Willi, Willie, Willy is actually the name with the most criticism of this list. Pretty much all Germans would go like: "Oh my Gosh! That's slang for p*nis!"
"On the fritz" I never heard before. I just always read, that "the Fritz" is slang for "the Germans" and therefore it's not smart to name your kid Fritz - since it might work in an englishspeaking environment.
Bent is pronounced like the vocabulary "to bend - bent - bent". And some germans go nuts about bent being slang for "gay".
Lion is the german spelling of the english pronounciation of Leon.
Willi, Willie, Willy is actually the name with the most criticism of this list. Pretty much all Germans would go like: "Oh my Gosh! That's slang for p*nis!"
"On the fritz" I never heard before. I just always read, that "the Fritz" is slang for "the Germans" and therefore it's not smart to name your kid Fritz - since it might work in an englishspeaking environment.
Bent is pronounced like the vocabulary "to bend - bent - bent". And some germans go nuts about bent being slang for "gay".
Lion is the german spelling of the english pronounciation of Leon.
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