Nobody get it right. Ever. (except those damn Germans )

They should change name to something easier!

It could have been much worse.

-I- can get it right, and i'm proud of it! .. German speaking people pronounce it the BEST though, i don't think i'll reach such a level. Nice name..

Why is Madison Square difficult to spell for the french, why is "Rød grød med fløde" difficult to spell for non-danes, and how come it wasn't until recently I learned to spell Hawaii right?

It all has to do with language... but I agree - Fraunhofer Gesellshaft could have chosen a more international name... but what good is it gonna do them?
We hate them anyway

I'd like you to read 2 portuguese word's

Esternocleidomastoideu

or

Inconstitucionalisisamente

easy!

Gesellschaft

=that's a muscle=



You should first write it right.
Inconstitucionalissimamente.

How about "pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism", for the english side of things.

Ooh! I can top that!

Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic!

thisisthemostfuckinghardtospellwordthativeseen

Try antidisestablishmentarianism. From what I hear it is the longest non-scientific word in the English language.

Ack! T o m a n y c o n s e c u t i v e c o n s o n a n t s.

Show me a word with no vowels and I will show you a word I can neither spell or pronounce.

http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq...rds/longestword

...in case you never googled it yet

Brought to you by Babelfish (who recently gave us Andree Shrub man and Muse luggage).

Inconstitucionalissimamente - illegal restriction on my fair use right to copy digital data

Esternocleidomastoideu - Not with my dog, you won't....

Just out of curiosity... Does it mean anything, or is it just a name that "sounded nice"?

It means company, but not campany as in business. It's company as in group of people.

Menno

Fraunhofer, the only part of the name that I am able to spell, is the name of a scientific.
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/...Fraunhofer.html

Syzygy.

This is a greek word

Sorry to "blind you with science" now , but the name comes from a reknown scientist called Joseph von Fraunhofer who lived from 1787 to 1826 in Bavaria. He was a honorary doctor at the University of Erlangen and earned this title (and his nobility) for the introduction of scientific research and validation methods instead of sheer trial and error. So it seems his name should be more respected in this community...

The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (FhG) consists of several institutes spread all over Germany that deal with many fields of research. The Fraunhofer Institute of Integrated Circuits, Erlangen (IIS) is only one of them, and its department "Audio & Multimedia" is only one of this particular institute.

More information related to the IIS can be found e.g. in the L3-FAQ from 1997:

Q:Who is or was Fraunhofer? And what does your institute do?

A: As researcher, inventor and entrepreneur, Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787 - 1826) won high acclaim for his scientific and commercial achievements. When the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft was founded in Munich in 1949, his name was chosen as the "guiding light" of the association.

Today, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft employs a staff of around 8.000 persons and operates 46 research institutes in Germany and one resource centre in the United States, with a research volume of around 1 billion DM. 70 % of its income is obtained by contract research for public authorities as well as for industrial clients.

The "Fraunhofer Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen" (IIS) was founded in Erlangen in 1985. It is headed by Prof. Dr.Ing. Dieter Seitzer and Dr. Heinz Gerhäuser. Today, a staff of 160 persons works on projects in the field of information electronics, developing microelectronic solutions at chip-, board- and system level. In its department "Audio & Multimedia", headed by Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg, around 40 engineers concentrate on the development and real-time implementation of signal processing algorithms in the field of audiovisual communications.

Q: So you focus on "contract research". What does this mean exactly?

A: Simply put: we have to earn our money. In case of our institute, we are funded by public money for less than 20 % - the rest of our budget has to be financed by research & development projects. You may call this work "applied research", i.e. in contrast to a university, we focus on real-world applications, and in contrast to an engineering office, we focus on state-of-the-art applications that bear some technical risks (and therefore need some further research). With other words, we are always trying to stay at the leading edge of technology. Take audio coding as an example. We started in 1987, in a close cooperation with the University of Erlangen, to develop an advanced audio coding scheme for future broadcast services (Eureka 147, DAB radio). In 1991, our algorithm ("Layer-3") became the most powerful member of audio coding schemes of the international ISO-MPEG standard. Since then, we work on industrial applications as well as on further audiovisual research projects, e.g. MPEG-4 scalable audio coding, MPEG-2 NBC audio coding, or MPEG-4 audiovisual terminals.

As we say in Glasgow:

Gonnigeezizabrekanstoapthisstupidityyaeejitangettifu

Answers on a postcard.....................................

auldyin

You're right my mistake, shame on me... now how do you know that?

Well, spelling a word in another than your native language is always a bit difficult.
American pronunciation of english language to me sounds like many variations of "R", so spelling wouldn't be very easy on unknown words.

In no-european speaking countries (like China) german language is considered to be most easy to pronounce, because the pronunciation rules are relative unambiguously. What does more than equalize this advantage is the very complicated grammar.

How about "lynx"?

Regards,
Madrigal

German grammar is easier than most though there are many rules BUT they count! Not like other lang.s like english or danish where there are few rules but many exceptions.

I learned some things from this thread i never DREAMED i'd ever learn.... ...

I'm Brazilian. (I thought everyone here knew this by now)

LOL. Talk about declinations.

Não sabia q era Brazileiro sou novo nestas andanças ainda tenho muito q aprender

Comon! Y is a vowel in most languages except english. So these words don't count!

Try something harder: "prtljaga" or "vrhnji"

I'm sure our balkan members can come up with better words than this tho... I forgot the one with 6 consonants and no vowels