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Originally Posted by Stealhead
Did you say fok-a or fok like Fokker?If you said fok with out the er you have it wrong and it does sound close to the word of ill repute.With German names no letters are silent just like Porshe it is not pronounced "Porsh" the E at the end sounds like an a it is the same with F o c k e.If you where pronouncing it correctly then your teacher is probably a pinko commie tree huger and should be ignored. you must make the "e" an "a" like Shaka Zulu.
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What's a Porshe - a female in financial trouble?
F.ocker in German sounds like Lock in British pronounciation + the 'e' like in 'men', then finish with a rolling scottish 'r'.
Though youre right, in contemporary German you can say F.okka with the Shaka 'a' - especially if you can'T "rrrrr"
. The 'e' in Por
sche is also pronounced like the men-'e'.
Btw thanks for improving my German with the 'Bauart' translation. No kidding. Today you use Bauart similar to (construction) style - just what the word literally means. For example a station wagon would be a Bauart of a car.
It looks like in the 1930s the word was indeed used similar to design - makes more sense this way. Well, I learn something new every day.
