How do you say?

How do you say Fondue in French?

Thanks

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(la) fondue

Give the o more of a real o sound.

More challenging is to say crepe. Don%26#39;t butcher it as is normally done in the US.

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oh you mean like %26quot;crap%26quot;

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Very simple as fondue is a French word : fondue !

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Things may be French, but once they come to America, you%26#39;d never recognize it. We shamelessly make new pronunciations, new definitions, new rules and new words to anything that was already existing.

In America, fondue becomes faun-du, Paris becomes pêre-esse, crêpe becomes crépe, Versailles becomes vêre-sélze, Détroit becomes di-troyte, etc.

In French, crêpe sounds a lot more like Schweppe than scrape.

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Fondue means %26quot;melted%26quot; in French and it is pronounced %26quot;phone due%26quot;. Sorry for the sarcastic responses of others.

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%26lt;%26lt;In America, fondue becomes faun-du, Paris becomes pêre-esse%26gt;%26gt;

So Darth, I%26#39;m curious. If you%26#39;re lamenting that we AMericans say Paris %26quot;pêre-esse,%26quot; does that mean for Munich, you say Muenchen with excellent German diction? And do you say Moscow in Russian, Stockholm in Swedish, and New Delhi in Urdu or whatever it would be?

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I would not call it lamenting.

There are visitors in the US not being understood; and Americans overseas not being understood; etc. The funny thing is that it%26#39;s Americans who are not even understood in the US because it%26#39;s an American fashion to not say what you mean and to depend on how it is said. %26quot;This is lamentable.%26quot; Lamenting begins when an American actually says what he means. %26quot;This is lamentable.%26quot;

When someone searches for Szechuan, Los Angeles or Munich; wants fondue, wontons or Budweiser; sees RSVP, cult or communion; etc it%26#39;s smart and admirable to be ready for a different meaning or pronunciation.

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humor.

After JFK said “Ich bin ein Berliner” Americans perceived for generations that they had an especially intelligent leader, while Germans may have been left to wonder why the US gets jelly filled pastries for their leaders.

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