[slightly off-topic]
Volks,
My wife gave me a little Garmin Nüvi GPS for my birthday, and I've been
having lots of fun with it. So when I saw that I could switch it over to
talk in German, I thought, "Perfect for my Volkswagen!" Well, maybe not
perfect, but a lot of fun.
The speech-recognition program in the GPS tries its best to make good German
sense out of American street names -- and the results are, um, challenging!
F'rinstance, "In 0.2 miles turn left on Woodlawn Dr" comes out "In
null-komma-zwei Meilen links abbiegen in Vote-Lovven Day Air!" It does okay
with street names like "West End Avenue" ("Vest End Avenüe" is
understandable) but "Broadway" came out "Brote-Vie" and "Highway 70S" became
"Heek-vie Zeepsicks." Anyhow, for an authentic German voice in your German
car, try changing your GPS setting to German and have fun!
Bert Knupp in Music City USA
PS - You should hear the American voice butcher Hawaiian street names! "Ala
Moana" became "Alabama Manna"!
Tschüss, Y'all,
Bert Knupp
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