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"jkm7680" (jkm7680) 06/10/2015 at 21:53 • Filed to: None

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Listening to Gerry Rafferty, Mobb Deep and Pearl Jam all in one playlist. Which evidently inspires me to configure very sexy Porsches.

Also, that automatic transmission that Porsche makes, PDK. Who the hell calls it by it’s actual name? Which is Dopelkukekkurkerkeukukukukeureukeurkk I think.

CB > jkm7680 06/10/2015 at 21:56

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Probably German people would. Or engineers. Maybe German engineers.

jkm7680 > CB 06/10/2015 at 21:57

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Something something, “If we over complicate the word automatic, then less people will buy those.”

No Prius Needed > jkm7680 06/10/2015 at 21:58

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but dat sax

jkm7680 > No Prius Needed 06/10/2015 at 21:58

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Dat sax was amazeballs. It’s too bad that Raphael passed.

CB > jkm7680 06/10/2015 at 21:59

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Or, hear me out, it’s a German company that named their product something in German.

AddictedToM3s - Drives a GC > jkm7680 06/10/2015 at 22:01

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I sometimes call PDK by its actual name (Porsche Doppelkupplungsgetriebe) just because it’s fun to say. And then my friends look at me like I’ve just shat a unicorn.

That’s a sexy configuration though. I’d have gone gunmetal on the wheels myself.

jkm7680 > AddictedToM3s - Drives a GC 06/10/2015 at 22:04

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How does one go about pronouncing that?

I always pronounced it Dopple-cup-lung.

jkm7680 > CB 06/10/2015 at 22:04

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Because Germany.

AddictedToM3s - Drives a GC > jkm7680 06/10/2015 at 22:07

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I forget which episode but I was listening to TST podcast for background noise and heard a guy who spoke german pronounce it “Porsche dop-el-coop-lungs-guy-stree-bay”.

jkm7680 > AddictedToM3s - Drives a GC 06/10/2015 at 22:10

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Hahaha, I'll just stick with PDK for now.

Axial > AddictedToM3s - Drives a GC 06/10/2015 at 22:42

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I should think it’s more like “Porsche dopp-el-coop-lunks-geh-stree-buh.” The “G” after an “N” tends to take on more of a “K” sound in German, and trailing “E” is typically more akin to a French “E” with an accent grave (è) than an accent aigu (é).

AddictedToM3s - Drives a GC > Axial 06/10/2015 at 22:45

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Well you certainly sound more knowledgable than me in regard to German. Good to know how to properly pronounce it now.

Axial > AddictedToM3s - Drives a GC 06/10/2015 at 22:50

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It’s not a hard rule, just something I’ve picked up hanging out with a German family and that’s what they told me when I asked about it.

Apparently, when I speak German I sound like a Frenchman taking a stay in the Fatherland rather than an American trying to speak German.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > jkm7680 06/11/2015 at 21:29

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I say the full PDK sometimes randomly or if I need a laugh when I’m down.