like how we accept the incorrect french pronunciation for Chopin. its not “showpan”, he was Polish so it would have been spelled “Szopen” and pronounced “showpen”
Yes. Chopin had a French name because his dad was a Frenchman, and French and German have tons of the same names because of how much history and ancestry they share. Schopen is a legit German name with many derivations like Schopenhauer.
Szopen in Polish is just straight polonisation of Chopin due to his popularity, but what i said above about French and German is also accurate about Polish and German so there are some people in Poland with the Schopen and similar names.
The “e” is there, so it sounds like Stalin… otherwise, it’d sound like Stalan
Same with “Poutine” for Putin, otherwise, it would sound like “Put-n”…
like how we accept the incorrect french pronunciation for Chopin. its not “showpan”, he was Polish so it would have been spelled “Szopen” and pronounced “showpen”
I wonder if there’s a linguistic connection between that Szopen and the Schopen in Schopenhauer
Yes. Chopin had a French name because his dad was a Frenchman, and French and German have tons of the same names because of how much history and ancestry they share. Schopen is a legit German name with many derivations like Schopenhauer.
Szopen in Polish is just straight polonisation of Chopin due to his popularity, but what i said above about French and German is also accurate about Polish and German so there are some people in Poland with the Schopen and similar names.