How to pronounce Schön

Cornerman said:
deleted... maybe this thread should just end until the next time someone asks.
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Mr Agnir, you cant quit on us...I feel you have the most to offer on this
subject.
I find the study of words fascinating, even with all the misunderstanding,
mistranslating, and local dispositions.
My education is mostly auto-didactic, so I'm pleased to read someone who
knows what he's talking about.

Since I was a kid, I,ve been buying any book that has 'Babel' in the title.
..and here's one you may enjoy reading....
http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j...y5_dIEUclFdX5FPPA&sig2=_i_uhEM9Pss8t3fFd7WKpA

regards
pt
 
pt109 said:
Mr Agnir, you cant quit on us...I feel you have the most to offer on this
subject.
I find the study of words fascinating, even with all the misunderstanding,
mistranslating, and local dispositions.
My education is mostly auto-didactic, so I'm pleased to read someone who
knows what he's talking about.

Since I was a kid, I,ve been buying any book that has 'Babel' in the title.
..and here's one you may enjoy reading....
http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j...y5_dIEUclFdX5FPPA&sig2=_i_uhEM9Pss8t3fFd7WKpA

regards
pt
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Thank you. It's in the cart.

Freddie <~~~ Please call Stella
 
I'm Swiss and YES here in Switzerland we also talk German!
So let me try to explain how you pronounce Schön in German:

It's almost pronounced like: SEAN. Just replace/exchange the EA in SEAN with the letter O (the way it's pronounced it in the word WORK) or with the letter U (the way it's pronounced it in the word BURK)

Another way is: Assemble only the letters between the () of the following words: (The way you pronounce them in English)
(Sh)arp - W(o)rk - E(n)d

E voilà: Now you know, how to pronounce (in German) the German word for beautiful: Schön

KR, from Switzerland

P.S. I really hope that somebody understood me?!
 
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How it is spelled and 'should' be pronounced isn't always the same as 'how' something is pronounced.

Come over here to Wisconsin and go to Schön Custom Cues or give them a call (414.383.6086) and hear how the company pronounces it "shown cues."
 
fireball said:
How it is spelled and 'should' be pronounced isn't always the same as 'how' something is pronounced.

Come over here to Wisconsin and go to Schön Custom Cues or give them a call (414.383.6086) and hear how the company pronounces it "shown cues."
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CM Lee, owner of CM's Place in Seminole FL used to sell these to my friends, he always called them "Shawn" cues, so that is what we went with.
I just met a guy the other day and we were talking about the local pool scene and he told me he had a "Shawn", of course he had purchased it from CM years ago.:thumbup:
 
According to the owners of Schon Custom Cues it is pronounced "Shawn". I had been pronouncing it differently until I was corrected in person by John.
 
Shooter08 said:
According to the owners of Schon Custom Cues it is pronounced "Shawn". I had been pronouncing it differently until I was corrected in person by John.
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It is NOT pronounced "shawn" in the German language. They may think it is but it is not. The umlaut adds a strange sound to the letter, and most americans hack the F out of it. But if the owners of the company, want to be called SHAWN, that is fine by me, and easier for most folks to pronounce. Most folks I know just pronounce it as "shown"

I can't even type how it really sounds, but trust me, it is not even close to shawn, unless you are of Indian decent, trying to say the name SHANE :)
 
Shooter08 said:
According to the owners of Schon Custom Cues it is pronounced "Shawn". I had been pronouncing it differently until I was corrected in person by John.
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I just got off the phone with them...call them yourself, I posted the number earlier today. It most certainly is NOT 'shawn'.
 
Jaden said:
It is NOT pronounced Seltic... It is pronounced Keltic...

I told my DIV-O when he was practicing a brief to give to the PAC Fleet Admiral how it was really pronounced, because we had some missions planned using Celtic, like Celtic Hammer etc...

Even after I corrected him, he still gave the brief pronouncing it Seltic...

Made himself look the fool in front of the admiral...

Jaden
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Couldn't be more embarrassing than the smartest guy in the room, the one playing 11th dimensional chess, pronouncing corpsman as corpse man. Yup, that'd be the douchebag squatting in the white house.
 
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Schön, it rhymes with phone'

In America it basically translates to "firewood"

J/k' there's some good 1's out there.




Silly thread.



Rob.M
 
I guess John changed his mind then. When I was at his house looking at his personal collection of Schon cues, including the one he said he would be buried with, he made it very clear that their German dealers were confused by how he personally pronounced it. Like I said before, he corrected me in person. Until Evan or he tell me different I'm going with Shawn for the pronunciation. I have no idea why he would tell one of his dealers the wrong pronunciation.
 
Because its a name isn't that exact annunciation open to argument? It seems to me that once again because it is a name that the user of that name pronounces it the way they see fit. I have always said Schon with "on" enunciated like the "on".:confused:
 
How do you say Meucci?

I once asked Bob Meucci, the owner of Meucci Cues, if he ever got upset that a lot of people called his cues: " Mew-chees" or Moochies"? He replied, "They can call them McDermott's for all I care as long as they buy them!" :grin-square:

The correct way to pronounce "Meucci" is "May-ooch-ee".
 
Did I killed somebody?!

fireball said:
How it is spelled and 'should' be pronounced isn't always the same as 'how' something is pronounced.

Come over here to Wisconsin and go to Schön Custom Cues or give them a call (414.383.6086) and hear how the company pronounces it "shown cues."
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Did I miss something? I think you really misunderstood me. I didn't want to be a wise ass!
I never said, I know how Evan, John or anybody else in the U.S.A. pronounces Schön!
I just wanted to help and letting know to those who really were interested about how you pronounce correctly the German word for beautiful: Schön
Sorry, but I really can't understand why are you almost aggressing me?!
 
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al-capool said:
Did I miss something? I think you really misunderstood me. I didn't want to be a wise ass!
I never said, I know how Evan, John or anybody else in the U.S.A. pronounces Schön!
I just wanted to help and letting know to those who really were interested about how you pronounce correctly the German word for beautiful: Schön
Sorry, but I really can't understand why are you almost aggressing me?!
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Here's one of the problems.... I've been all over western Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. The word is pronounced differently in every area , even in the Germa speaking countries.

And to the poster who said it's pronounced Shawn, that name is pronounced different in every state of the United States. Not surprisingly, it's about the same number of ways people pronounce Schön.

Everyone is wrong; everyone is right.

Freddie <~~~ schön
 
I talked to Terry Romine in the 90s, I asked him about my use of 'SHOWN'.
He was the first one to tell me it was actually 'Shern'.....
....but he said if they say 'Shawn' or 'Shown' it was fine with him....
...as long as they paid for it.

Shern, Shown ,Shawn
Rack 'em up and get it ONNNNN

God rest Terry Romine



Freddy, how do you pronounce Pechauer?
:smile:
 
Straightpool_99 said:
The owners of the company can pronounce the name how they want to, but must expect that some people with an even rudimentary understanding of the german language will roll their eyes. In German the word is pronounced like in this song:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=axlpkcvKR4Q There might be some slight variatons but for the most part it's pronounced similarly. Sorry about the cheesy song, the first one to come up on a youtube search.

Skip to 0:51

Also, i apologize on behalf of all Europeans with names that are difficult to pronounce. Just call us "Bob" from now on, we'll understand. There is a special exception,in France all men must called "garcon", they love that (ipad does not have correct letter but you get what I mean).
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Just hold the c and drag over. Garçon

Comme ça

Freddie
 
Niklas said:
The letter ö is the same in swedish, my native language.
Pronounce it as the u in burn, or maybe the i in bird, maybe with a slightly sharper tone.. :smile:
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My German professor (Dr. Tolk) would have pronounced it as shurn. The umlauted letter is spoken as a "ur". Back in the 50's, Chemical Engineering students were advised to take two years of German - I wound upped taking 4 years of it.
 
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