How do you pronounce "Mises"

Are you sure ? “Nie” is the first word that comes to my mind and I think it uses the long i. “Wieder” same thing. Oh, the pronouns “Die, Dieser, Diesen, etc”

Hm check for yourself http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_German

IPA “iː” viel (long i).

Well, perhaps I’m not understanding what you mean by “long i”, but Die etc. are all pronounced with a “dee” sound, as opposed to Die in English. At least, this is what I learned in the five odd years I did German.

Yes, correct. I misunderstood what you meant by long e.

So, “dee” in English sounds /diː/ and “die” in German sounds /diː/ - basically both words use the same vowel. I’m calling that vowel, /iː/, a long i.

Eu falo um pouco. Acho que ele é facil. Precisa ouvir e repitar.

Mee-z-us

A qualquer momento, e com sotaque do nordeste brasileiro, que é um dos mais próximos do sotaque dos portugueses na época das grandes navegações. [;)]

The funny thing about portuguese is how foreigners claim it sounds slavic. I’ve always found that claim weird, until I met 3 polish girls in Norway. I could easily pronounce polish words and they also had a perfect pronounce of portuguese stuff, also a cousin that wen to Eslovaquia claimed that phonetically, eslovaquian sounded very similar to portuguese, I cant help to find that quite amazing.

“For that matter, is the German pronunciation basically “Lewd-vig phone Mee-zes”??”

I think it’s “Lewd-vig-fon-mee-zes”.

this is how Lew Rockwell,Hulsmann and Hans Hermann Hoppe pronounce it.

Isn’t “Hoppe” pronounced Hop-e?

Ludwig von Mises. Hans-Hermann Hoppe.

I can also do Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk and Jörg-Guido Hülsmann if you wish.

Mis = the i is a short e, the S is a hard s (sort of sz), the second e is like half an ‘a’ and half an ‘e’ (eh). The second s is soft because it’s terminal.

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk

Almost like Oigen, the Eu is a dipthong.

Sphairon: “I can also do Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk and Jörg-Guido Hülsmann if you wish.”

Dewwit! Dewwit! Dewwit!

I get a strange pleasure from hearing ‘Carl Menger’ … . (?!?)

If a psychologist of some stripe could explain that to me I’d appreciate it.

Sphairon: “I can also do Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk and Jörg-Guido Hülsmann if you wish.”

Dewwit! Dewwit! Dewwit!

This is reminding me of that wiki where the Finnish guy pronounces all the names in Lord of the Rings.

‘I love Mises to pieces’ is how I’ve remembered it, perhaps I’m wrong?

Yes, the german S has a Z sound.

But if you want an accurate rendering the question isn’t how Germans pronounce German but how did 19th century Galicians like Mises himself pronounce German? :slight_smile:

All four of them:

http://www.vforvoluntary.com/files/pronounciations.mp3

I just woke up, and I’m Dutch, but I think I’ve got a pretty good handle on this.

@Nielsio

You kind of sound like you’re from Baltimore. Nice.

Nielsio’s version is pretty much impeccable. Now, we need someone from Austria who will pronounce these names with the proper accent.

Being German myself, you (the OP) have been pronouncing it just right. Von Mises definitely being a German name (“von” is like “of” in English), it rhymes with the English pronunciation of Jesus.

Yes, this is correct.