Shtrawberry. Drinking shtraw as well.

Any time I try and pronounce it with a hard S and not SH, it ends up sounding like a bad 90s parody of a gay man. I practically flounce.

I can’t be the only one…

  • Björn@swg-empire.de
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    7 hours ago

    I think this way of speaking developed in the USA over the last 30 years or so.

    I saw a video about that a few months ago how people seem to put the sh sound into more and more places. Like they don’t say stormtrooper, they say shtormshrooper. Can’t find it anymore and don’t remember the channel.

    To me it sounds weird. We learned this as a distinct difference to German that it’s straw and not shtraw, like it would be pronounced in German.