and a funny fact about Thomastik...

Well, I've been pronouncing it correctly for years and I don't speak more than about five words of German. I'd love to be able to say it's because I knew how to pronounce it, but actually, I just got lucky. I had no idea what the correct pronunciation was.

 

Still figuring out how to roll my Ls. Any tips?

 

I've always pronounced it like that (correctly).

It helps that I speak German.

 

Austrians speak german, but they pronounce it differently than germans.
I'd pronounce Thomastik just as it is written.
a short 'i' and no english 'th' sound.
Basically 'tomastik'.

How does one roll an 'L'?
As to the rolled 'R': It depends on where in Germany you are.

 

+1 that is how I've been saying it.

 

I'm an ignorant proud American. I pronounce it two ways:
1) Tom-Us-stick in-feld
2) To-ex-Pen-Sive For-Me

 

it's D'Addario I cant pronounce, although i would pronounce that Thomas-Stick unless i had heard it in German first. If i read words i assume they're English unless i know they're not.

I can roll a German R but not a Spanish R... and i have the darndest time with the Spanish ny sound (the N with the wiggle over it) and the rolled LL sound. I can make the rolled LL sound, although poorly but my brain needs to be forced to do it when reading it. I refused to ask for the bathroom in Puerto Rico because i knew I could not make that N sound right and people would snicker.
The perils of not having learned a second language until high school!

 

I've been saying toe-mass-tick

 

I pronounce it like this: "T-I"

 

You say potato and I say potahto,
You say Toe-MOSS-teek and I say TAH-miss-tick;
Potato, potahto, Toe-MOSS-teek, TAH-mis-stick!
Let's call the whole thing off!

 

Thomas-stick Inn-feld. Nothing difficult about it.

 

On our local news cable channel, we have an anchor by the name of Ybeth Bruzual, and she speaks English like a midwestern American except when she says "Bruzual," then she lapses into a heavy Spanish accent. It sounds so jarring and put-on. That's exactly how I would feel if I heard someone say "Too MOSS teek" if they didn't already speak with a German accent.

 

noooo clue what you mean .

No clue at all.

 

I use TI flats and I let them do the talking.

They are much more articulate.