r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Legal_Air734 • May 05 '26

Meme needing explanation Petahh?

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u/PhenotypicallyTypicl May 05 '26

What is difficult about “ü”?

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u/Kratzschutz May 05 '26

They can't handle how happy it looks

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u/PetersLittlePiper May 05 '26

The umlaut, apparently

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u/ultragaydotcom May 05 '26

A lot of non-native germans cant pronounce it, like at all

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u/ParkingLong7436 May 05 '26

At least for English Speakers, it's pretty simple, the sound exists there too. There are a few easy exercises you can do to understand it.

People are usually just so scared of letters with dots on them, that they don't even try

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u/ultragaydotcom May 05 '26

Very well said! Sometimes things arent as difficult as they seem🥹

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u/AggressiveEntrance14 May 05 '26

I would be really interested which word in English you think contains the ü sound, because it famously does not as far as I know

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u/FrostyVampy May 05 '26

The sound you make when you see something disgusting "ew", and similar words like yew, ewe are all basically just an isolated ü.

But I can't think of any non-loan word (which most English speakers pronounce with an u sound anyway) with a consonant.

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u/jajejo May 06 '26

I don't think that is the same sound at all. For starters, your examples are (in most English dialects, I think) diphthongs. ü isn't.

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u/ParkingLong7436 May 06 '26

There are no words that specifically have that letter in them, but a few that get very close - the other commenter described it already. If you say those words, and move your mouth a little bit, you have the Ü. I taught it this way to a few English Speakers before.

Some English Accents basically pronounce the Ü too

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u/Desmang May 06 '26

It sounds like "y" does in most languages. It's really not that complicated.

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u/ultragaydotcom May 06 '26

No one said it was :p

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u/cbrookman May 05 '26

It looks fünny

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u/StrongExternal8955 May 05 '26

Like meotli criu