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Question for any German-speaking forum members
« on: April 30, 2022, 04:42:04 PM »
I've recently started reading 'Letters and Papers from Prison' by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, which was edited by his friend Eberhard Bethge, who is also frequently mentioned in the letters. The question is: how is "Bethge" pronounced - is it as though it was an English name, with the th prnounced as in "theatre", or "Betge"? I think that th is pronounced t in German, but I'm not sure.
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Re: Question for any German-speaking forum members
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2022, 08:03:37 PM »
I've recently started reading 'Letters and Papers from Prison' by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, which was edited by his friend Eberhard Bethge, who is also frequently mentioned in the letters. The question is: how is "Bethge" pronounced - is it as though it was an English name, with the th prnounced as in "theatre", or "Betge"? I think that th is pronounced t in German, but I'm not sure.


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Re: Question for any German-speaking forum members
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2022, 08:17:11 PM »
Thanks.
I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
Robert Macfarlane