• Microw@lemm.ee
    2·
    5 months ago

    In German in recent decades it’s fashionable/expected to pronounce central European cities the way the inhabitants do. Probably due to the wars and the ethnic transformations…

      • volvoxvsmarla @lemm.ee
        5·
        5 months ago

        Me neither. If someone here in Germany started saying Lisboa or Barcelona I would be thrown off and, very honestly, also find it a tiny bit pretentious.

        Edit: throwing in the question how to pronounce towns that are on a border and have both kinds of pronunciations used by inhabitants

      • Microw@lemm.ee
        2·
        5 months ago

        Bratislava instead of Pressburg, Ljubljana instead of Laibach, Zagreb instead of Agram.

        Lwiw/Lemberg or Brno/Brünn is probably both used.

        Prag and Warschau as well as Krakau are firmly used instead of the local ones.