I never did understand how an ocean can contain multiple seas.

Give me more of these!

However, in Spanish, which is the name's language of origin despite being a German car, they're the same. All e as in red. Mercedes.

Märzehdis

On a phonetic level, some specialist will be able to discern the different E-sounds, but they're still very similar. It's definitely not like the English pronunciation where it's completely different sounds.

E is super flexible in German

e, ae, oe, ue, eu, ie, ei, ee all make distinct consistent sounds

The difference is so narrow that I wouldn't notice any difference apart from the length, the first and last e are very slightly shorter than the middle e. And of course you have the usual going-down-with-your-voice-at-the-end-of-the-word

When I, as a German speaker, pronounce Mercedes, every e is slightly different.

Same in Spanish

The first E in Mercedes sounds slightly different from the other two in German, mostly because the rhotic sound [r] modifies the tongue placement for the preceding E, forcing you to say it as either an open-mid front unrounded vowel [ɛ], or a mid near-front unrounded [ɛ̽]. The [r] prevents the vowel from being a Close-mid front unrounded vowel [e] like the 2nd and 3rd occurrences of E.

Or more simply, the first e sounds more like "bed" while the second and third sound more like "may", assuming you're reading this with a standard American dialect.

Not quite. The middle e is longer than the other two.

When you pray for the lord to have mercy, they have to dispense it somehow. That part made sense to me as a kid.

However why would God have to buy one? And from whom? Who manufactures these mercy dispensers for God? Why wouldn't God just make them into existence?

When I learned that it was Mercedes Benz I came to understand that even God needs to abide by trademark law.

Same in Poland.

In French they can be. In France, no because they don't have a large repertoire of sounds. But in Quebec, all 3 E sounds different.

Oiseaux.

Edit: the joke is that no vowel in oiseaux is pronounced the right way.

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Häh wie sprichst du das denn aus? Offensichtlich überhaupt nicht /mɛʁˈt͡seːdəs/ wie alle anderen? In Spanisch sind sie gleich, in Deutsch alle unterschiedlich, genau wie in Englisch.

The original is Spanish, and the Es are pronounced the same

Got'em!

I’m fighting an urge right now…

Either that or op and their friend posed for these photos themselves to make this mend

Maybe real? Anyone recognize that watermark?

Yes

Murr SAY deez