Why is Voightlander...

[Roger Hicks]

...such a seductive mis-spelling? I even type it myself occasionally (once in a hundred times, maybe) but normally I notice as soon as I do. I don't think I ever type 'lense', though.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

R.

 

[newspaperguy]

Jeez, Rog....

It's a 'furrin' language to us statesiders. 🙄

(I never do 'lense' neither... lenses, yes.)

 

[Rogrund]

Maybe because of this man?

 

[Trius]

You're secretly in love with Jon Voight.

Edit: Yikes, two of us with the same idea, simultaneously.

 

[sahe69]

Maybe you're subconsciously thinking about Jon Voight? 🙂 😱

edit: 3 of us thinking about him at the same time 😱 😱 😱

 

[Don Parsons]

I have trouble with both of them but then I shoot SLR's too. 🙂

 

[kshapero]

Doesn't Voightlander really refer to Jon Voight's Land Rover?

 

[sahe69]

Doesn't Voightlander really refer to Jon Voight's Land Rover?

After which Cosina's Mr. Kobayashi is lusting..... 😀

 

[telenous]

The culprit, for me, has always been the Voight-Kampff machine:

http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/images/2006/02/BladeRunner_Voigt-Kampff_machine.jpg


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[pingle]

John Voight the periodontist?

 

[user237428934]

Maybe you're subconsciously thinking about Jon Voight? 🙂 😱

edit: 3 of us thinking about him at the same time 😱 😱 😱

Hm. Strange forum. Isn't it more fun thinking about his daughter?

 

[nzeeman]

someone asked this few years ago - i had a theory that it is because of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voight-Kampff_machine
from blade runner - and maybe it feels more intuitive to english people to add h instead of writting voigt - i think there are not many words in english with GT pair...

 

[Chris101]

John Voight the periodontist?

You watch too much TV.

How many people forget to umlaut the "ä"?

 

[jky]

... the g-h-t sequence always confuses me.

 

[Roger Hicks]

Stupid English ka-ni-guh-huts!

(Monty Python and the Holy Grain)

The longest pronounceable consonant sequence I know in Englishis GHTSBR

which of course appears in Knightsbridge.

Cheers,

R.

 

[Rogrund]

The longest pronounceable vowel sequence I know in Englishis GHTSBR

I thought that GHTSBR were consonants...😉

 

[jonmanjiro]

How many people forget to umlaut the "ä"?

I don't have problems getting the spelling right, but haven't got the faintest idea how to display the two dots above the "a" 😕

I can write it in Japanese tho → フォクトレンダー　😀

 

[Roger Hicks]

I thought that GHTSBR were consonants...😉

Good point! Amended to remedy the fact that my brain is clearly a LOT more faded this afternoon than yours.

Cheers,

R. (or possibly Aaaargh!)

 

[Spider67]

Hi jonmanjiro,
that would be "ae" wenn no umlaut is available....
Yes the Voight-Kampff machine creepy apparatus..
Roger are you hiding a past in special ops?

 

[Roger Hicks]

I don't have problems getting the spelling right, but haven't got the faintest idea how to display the two dots above the "a" 😕

Alt 132 = ä

I am told (I have never verified it) that if you can't do the ä, the Voigtländer family prefer Voigtlander to Voigtlaender.

Cheers,

R.