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EU Parliamentary Projection: The End of the Rise of the Right? - Europe Elects (europeelects.eu)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No, it's used, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitzenkandidat

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

It's relatively straightforward to pronounce, "spit-sin-candy-dat" is reasonably close to the German pronunciation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Brb gonna call VdL "candy" quickly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I meant, I bet many English speakers mispronounce the word. Sorry about the confusion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh, no misunderstanding afaik. I meant to say that the word is not that hard to pronounce even for non-Germans.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

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.