ywenz
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Does the proper pronounciation of Zeiss rhyme with "Dice" or does it sound more like Zeus from Dr. Zeus?
how to pronounce Zeiss?
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Bryce
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Pronounced 'tsice'. Similar to dice but starting with 'ts', same as tsar or in English czar.
Thats correct German. Most Americans seem content to pronounce the z like in Zima.
Thats correct German. Most Americans seem content to pronounce the z like in Zima.
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Very well explained!
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Uwe
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Bryce said:
Very well explained!
Best regards,
Uwe
rxmd
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Rhymes with "vice" 🙂
Bryce
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Sticks and stones, George.
Ken Ford
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"Smith"...
sepiareverb
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More to the point how does one pluralize Zeiss? If I have two Zeiss lenses are the Zeisses or Zeissi?
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sepiareverb said:
One Zeiss, two Zeiss' is one way to pluralize it. Another is to treat it as a plurale tantum.
rxmd
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In English, Zeisses, probably. In German it would probably be Zeisse. There is no reason for a Latin -i ending.
There are actually cases for the declension of Zeiss, e.g. in the following absurd German poem from the 1910s by Christian Morgenstern:
"Ein Hase sitzt auf einer Wiese
im Glauben, niemand sähe diese.
Doch im Besitze eines Zeißes
betrachtet voll gehaltnen Fleißes
von einem nahgelegnen Berg
ein Mensch den kleinen Löffelzwerg.
Ihn aber blicket wiederum
ein Gott von fern an, still und stumm."
("A rabbit sits in a meadow/believing no one sees him./However, a man with a Zeiss/filled with suppressed eagerness/watches Little Big Ears/from a nearby hill./And him in turn/a god silently watches from afar." The original German is a lot better than my rather literal translation.)
There are actually cases for the declension of Zeiss, e.g. in the following absurd German poem from the 1910s by Christian Morgenstern:
"Ein Hase sitzt auf einer Wiese
im Glauben, niemand sähe diese.
Doch im Besitze eines Zeißes
betrachtet voll gehaltnen Fleißes
von einem nahgelegnen Berg
ein Mensch den kleinen Löffelzwerg.
Ihn aber blicket wiederum
ein Gott von fern an, still und stumm."
("A rabbit sits in a meadow/believing no one sees him./However, a man with a Zeiss/filled with suppressed eagerness/watches Little Big Ears/from a nearby hill./And him in turn/a god silently watches from afar." The original German is a lot better than my rather literal translation.)
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