• volvoxvsmarla @lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    I wouldn’t say it’s wrong if he pronounced it the German way in German speech. I mean I also don’t go around saying My grandma lives is Moskwa and I met my husband in Sankt Peterburg just to keep the native pronunciation. If he talks Hungarian and pronounces it wrong within a Hungarian sentence though…

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      4 months ago

      In German in recent decades it’s fashionable/expected to pronounce central European cities the way the inhabitants do. Probably due to the wars and the ethnic transformations…

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          4 months ago

          Me neither. If someone here in Germany started saying Lisboa or Barcelona I would be thrown off and, very honestly, also find it a tiny bit pretentious.

          Edit: throwing in the question how to pronounce towns that are on a border and have both kinds of pronunciations used by inhabitants

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          Bratislava instead of Pressburg, Ljubljana instead of Laibach, Zagreb instead of Agram.

          Lwiw/Lemberg or Brno/Brünn is probably both used.

          Prag and Warschau as well as Krakau are firmly used instead of the local ones.