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Americans are pronouncing it perfectly correctly as most of us speak English and not German.
Volkswagen is not an English word though
It most certainly is an English proper noun.
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#112New Coke?
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#113So we have car companies who can trace their names to Alessandro Volta and Nikola Tesla. Up for grabs: André-Marie Ampère? Faraday? Edison?
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#114Pronunciation is no longer “folks wagen” but “faults wagen”. The classic German ironic sense of humor.
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#115This is funny, yet ridiculous :-)) Their brand is so tainted in the US that they're renaming it. I imagine it's going to be the only place they'll do it.
So tainted they sold more cars in 2019 than they did pre-scandal.
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#116What is the relative difference in emissions between a gasoline-powered car and an electric car that is recharged by power from a coal-burning plant?
Besides the fact that a coal-burning plant is more efficient, one difference is a cleaner city. Another difference is that it can be charged from other sources, e.g. solar at home. Another difference is that the grid is typically a mix, not just coal. And another difference is that the battery is basically an abstraction which abstracts away the power supply so this becomes a different (easier) problem to fix.
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#117Weird, they posted this by accident a few days ago and now it's back. Got to be a joke, there's no way..
April's fools is tomorrow, guess it's real.
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#118I see what they did there.
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#119Does this mean they have shifted their focus to cheating on battery capacity?
That doesn't really fit their mo. They'll probably cheat on efficiency.
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
Americans are pronouncing it perfectly correctly as most of us speak English and not German.
Pronunciation doesn't go like that but that is a big discussion for its own thread Funny remark though while watching the F1 Netflix show, Schumacher said his name like SchumaKer , hence the Engish Pronunciation which goes to show that he adapted to the audience.
If I were trying to say the word 'Volkswagen' to a German person, I would do my best to pronounce it in a way they would understand.
As most of the time I ever say the word 'Volkswagen' out loud it's to my fellow English speakers, pronouncing it in the expected English way seems way less pretentious and effective.