By baguette - 02/09/2014 23:32 - Germany - Minden

Today, I've been living in Germany for several weeks now. My classmates still cannot pronounce my name: Clémence. Instead they call me, “Baguette.” FML
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Lyshandra 8

Aww just call them "Brötchen" as a comeback, it is like little loafs of Bread. =) Or "Wurst"

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Boobadoowupski 5

Something tells me this isn't a case of them not being able to...

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Lyshandra 8

Aww just call them "Brötchen" as a comeback, it is like little loafs of Bread. =) Or "Wurst"

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Boobadoowupski 5

Something tells me this isn't a case of them not being able to...

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Emyka 26

Clemens (the german version of your name) is pronounced quite similar, I highly doubt it is a matter of not being able to. I agree with #1, call them german food items of your choice in return.

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fleur_de_fevrier_fml 22

My name is Wafaa and when I was living in Germany, they used to call me "Waffel" which means "Waffle" in English. And guess what happened when I moved to an English speaking country... -_-

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yerawizardlizzy 27

There is no W sound in German, but they shouldn't have called you that.

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askullnamedbilly 33

As a German: Was? Wie? Wovon redest du? (What? How? What are you talking about?) Of course Germans have a W-sound. It's not a matter of people being unable to pronounce certain things anyway, it's a matter of people ******* with you.

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yerawizardlizzy 27

You pronounce it with a W sound as in water? Because I was taught Ws are a V sound as in violin.

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interesting33 36

A W is pronounced like a v - so waffles is pronounced Vaffeln.

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Suaria 38

Wienerschnitzel which is pronounced with a v instead of a w could be an example of the German language changing a w into a v sound.

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fleur_de_fevrier_fml 22

Yes lots of them would pronunce my name "Vafaa". Still had a good laugh over it though :)

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yerawizardlizzy 27

That's what I was originally getting at. Guess I didn't articulate it well enough.

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CiaphasCain2 20

Dude, thats austrian german- which is actually an independent dialect. Second off, the W in Wien (Vienna) is NOT pronounced like a V; if the was the case it would sound like 'Fien'.

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ulissey_fml 22

Since they are behaving like ****, call them "tétons" and just pretend this is how "teutons "is pronounced. I also think your name is a lot easier to say than they Clem it to be.

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Colon_Man 17

Maybe it's cuz you're so cute that they would rather nickname you after a cute... something. *I have no idea what a baguette is. I hope it's not some kind of fish.

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Kailayla 29

It's the long loafs of bread that are typically French.

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Slavgaard 16

Could be worse... your name could be Squirrel ....

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Cali 54

Eichhörnchen! That was one of my faves in German class! I also liked verschwinden. German is fun.

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davek 36

Omelette du fromage

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HeroSpence 7

Cheer up Baguette! It could've been worse.

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Suaria 38

One of my friends has the same name as you but they go by Charlie. You could start calling them by German food names such as Bratwurst.

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