It gets confusing after a while

[jennie3576]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Your grandmother is close to right, Jennie, and your professor is wrong, cg. Z in German is pronounced "ts" (like in Mozart) so that it's ALTS-highm-ers. (The z and the h would be in two different syllables -- Alz-heim-ers.)

At least, based on standard German pronunciation, that is probably how Herr Doktor Alois Alzheimer said it.

thanks for clearing it all up for everyone! i promise i won't tell my mom you called her my grandmother, MysticCat!!!!!!

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by jennie3576

i promise i won't tell my mom you called her my grandmother, MysticCat!!!!!!

Ach! Verzeihung!

(Can I wuss out and claim that some days I read German better than I read English? )

[jennie3576]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Ach! Verzeihung!

(Can I wuss out and claim that some days I read German better than I read English? )

i don't read german at all....but somedays I feel the same exact way!!!!!