Pronunciation
 

I was asked a strange question today.

Is 944 pronounced nine forty-four or nine four four?

I always thought it was nine forty-four..similar to nine eleven

Me too....Making me question myself....hhmmmm

I guess the proper pronunciation ...

vuld be zi nien vierer vierer ...hee, hee

in germany they say neun hundert elf as in ninehundred eleven.
i say nine four four, nine two eight, nine six eight etc because its faster. although i dont say nine one one (that just sounds weird to me). i think its customary to group the last 2 numbers together.

I say 9 forty four.

Most Germans and\or Porsche employees in Germany that I have spoken to refer to the cars by grouping the last two numbers:

944: nine-forty four: neun vierundvierzig, Not neun-vier-vier or neunhundert vierundvierzig.

911: neun elf
930 neun dreizig
968 neun achtundsechzig
959 neun neunundfunfzig

and so on.

AFJuvat

"no four four"?

Ich glaube du meinst 'neun'. ;)

ZV

Here we say "nueve cuarenta y cuatro"

I figured it would be "El quatre quatro grande"

I just call it 'the forty four'. :)

well, no. he didn't say 'nein', he said 'nien' which quite possibly could be nine in another language. Swahili perhaps??

:D

I am strange. I refer to it as a nine four four. Then there is the nine sixty eight, the nine twenty eight, the nine twenty four, nine thirty one. The 944 is the only model that I seperate the numbers. Maybe because it is so special.

I figured that hitting him for both mistakes would just be too harsh. :p :D

Aaron

ladies & gentlemen, I give you the last surviving member of "Mike and the Mechanics" :D

It seems like porsche have a multitude of problems with pronounciation of their products. People are still arguing over whether it's poorsh or poorsha, thats before you even get to the numbers! I imagine tey chose numbers to avoid complication at some point but you can have a 944 that is pronounced nine five one!?

I just say S2, because I can...

Each to their own on this one I think

nine fo fo !

Yo Yo, it's da G-fo fo!
sorry, I couldn't resist.....
I tend to agree with the german pronunciation of all of this. Neun vierundveirzig, so nine forty four... however to each their own, just don't call it a civic or an integra or slap a type-r on it, and you're saying it right =)

As to the porsch-e- debate, I believe in german, since the e at the end follows a consonant (sp?), I believe it is pronounced as a hard e, making it sound more like porscha
Although I am still learning German (sorry, only in 201), and I could be incorrect here.
As a rule, I stick to the german way of saying things, or at least how I think the germans would say it.

My car is a Porscha Nine-four-four-Ess-two.

:D
-Z.

it's porschE !
:D

actually, let me change my mind its pronounced

Baby,
Sweetheart,
or
Sugar !

I usually just say nine four four when phoning around for parts. I rarely draw attention to it being a PorschE because it sounds so desperately pretentious.