Nika Muhl: Comfy In Her Own Skin

[#12in21]

Maybe we’ll see her back next season as the first ever UConn wcbb player/coach

 

[HuskerDo]

The color commentator in the Depaul game said "You see how calm and cool Nika Muhl is." I looked at screen to see if there was another Nika Muhl on the court.

 

[Zarathustra]

I'm looking for road songs and this pops up! It's like a Nika fillibuster in Polish. I don't know a word of Polish but I watched it and enjoyed just how comfortable and animated she was. It does seem she's a Celtic fan too.

In any language.... Nika is Great!

 

[Zarathustra]

I caught that, too. Looks like the accent on the "u" changes the way it's said. Any linguists here?

I have trouble with ENGLISH.... so...

 

[fomalhaut]

An umlaut doesn't turn a u into an ee, at least not in German.

Actually umlaut-u is sort of like ee, but with rounded lips, so you get a bit of both oo and ee.

 

[CL82]

Actually umlaut-u is sort of like ee, but with rounded lips, so you get a bit of both oo and ee.

Anyone else feel compelled to try that?

 

[MSGRET]

My wife is German and she does not pronounce it like ee, it's, more like "uew". She also says in German there is no umlaut that has an ee sound.

 

[HuskyNan]

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[UCTitleTown]

We heard from a reportedly good source that is sounds like Mule, the animal.

I'm German. It's pronounced like mule.

 

[OldSchooler]

The u-umlaut (often spelled "Muehl") is pronounced like ee with the lips in a whistling position, so it doesn't come out sounding like ee. (An o-umlaut sound is like a long a in English, again with the lips in a whistling position, so it comes out sounding different from a plain old English long a. As in Goethe.) There really is no equivalent sound in English, and Europeans know that, so they're usually satisfied when most Anglicizers just pronounce it as if there were no umlaut at all ("Muhl," or "Mule").