View Full Version : How do you pronounce Scheimpflug?
I know I'm wrong but I've always said something like shem-floog. Reciently I heard a european say something like Shemu with more silent letters than phenetic. Does any one have a reasonable idea of pronounciation?
John Downie
20-Sep-2003, 09:38
Try here:
http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=003arH
I say SHIME floog
Bjorn Nilsson
20-Sep-2003, 09:42
In splitting it up I'd suggest you put together these words and letter:
chime p fluke
with a somewhat silent p in the middle.
But I recon that some german reader have an even better suggestion. :-)
Steve Gangi
20-Sep-2003, 10:00
It should be pronounced "shime flook"
Jon_2416
20-Sep-2003, 10:41
T-I-L-T or S-W-I-N-G depending... :)
Paul Chaplo
20-Sep-2003, 12:04
... enough shlime flinging already ;-)
Chad Jarvis
20-Sep-2003, 12:56
Smith...
Ralph Barker
20-Sep-2003, 15:18
In German, the pronunciation of ei-ie combinations is determined by the last letter, so "ei" is pronounced like a "long" i - like eye. The "pf" combination is a little tougher. Essentially, you form the p with your lips, but don't actually pronounce it before transitioning to the f sound. A trailing g is pronounced so short that it sounds more like a k. In most circles, not too much criticism would befall either "shime floog" or "shime flook" though.
Steve Feldman
20-Sep-2003, 17:07
Otzi,
It's one of those words that can't be pronounced.
Sames goes for Diagurrotype. Or Daguroughtype. Or Degirowtipe.
You get the idea.
~:o)
Tom Keenan
20-Sep-2003, 21:01
My goal is be an accomplished large format photographer without ever saying that word.
Bob._3483
21-Sep-2003, 06:45
I suggest you do not even try.
I was once the victim of a serious tomato sauce incident whist participating in a photographic techniques conversation during a spaghetti lunch when the person sitting opposite me tried to pronounce *that* word (I still can't even type it without horrendous flash-backs) with a mouth full of spaghetti bolognaise.
As least he paid my drycleaning and therapy bills....
Cheers,
Alan Davenport
21-Sep-2003, 18:16
Does any one have a reasonable idea of pronounciation?
It's pronounced exactly the same as "bokeh." IOW, it's a term you just shouldn't use in polite company.
Michael Heinrich
22-Sep-2003, 04:24
Theodor Scheimpflug würde sich im Grabe drehen, Please don`t try to pronounce it like a German, in the spanish language all foreign words are pronounced like spanish ones, its the better way... ´ßaimpflu:k is the correct pronounciation of the Duden (the ß like the american sh)
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