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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I'm from Germany, so no native English speaker. Why does it still sound wrong in my ears? Is it the way we have to open the mouth to make those sounds, and it feels unnatural in a different order?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

English is basically bastardized German, so that's probably it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Or maybe it's a Germanic language thing, Zick Zack, you know.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Schwip Schwap. In fact, ablaut is a German word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_ablaut

It's common to all Indo-European languages to some degree

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Another reason might be, that you consumed so much English media, that you got used to the correct order?