A German-English Christmas poem

[pne]

I found it rather amusing :)

Presumably written by a German, since it seems to assume stereotypical German (mis)pronunciation of English in a couple of places (e.g. rhyming "need" and "street", or "runs" and "Gans").

Comments

[pthalo]

need and street don't rhyme?

[pne.livejournal.com]

The final consonants aren't the same, which messes up the rhyme for me. So: no, they don't.

(I think that for me, rhyme, roughly speaking, means that the final syllable nucleus and coda is identical in two lines; more roughly, the final VC portion of a syllable. Hence, if the C bit is different, even if it's merely a voiced-unvoiced difference, it's not a rhyme.)

[bacskocky.livejournal.com]

need and street are slant rhyme... not exact rhyme, but close enough :)

[tysolna]

I actually think rhyming "bakes" with "Keks" is worse. ;)

[elgrande.livejournal.com]

I believe there are some accents of English in which the vowel in "bakes" would roughly rhyme with "Keks".

(Incidentally, I think "Keks" actually comes from English "cakes", so the "terrible" pronunciation of the vowel has become commonplace in German in this word - but certainly because of the sound repertoire that German has and not because of certain accents of English.)