Word Pronunciation

I'm more worried about the words that I don't know that I don't know how to pronounce.

Thiel (as in Peter). ("t" or "th"?)

I'm interested in how Luke pronounces Muehlhauser. It is a very German sounding name. But I doubt he pronounces it the way that I would pronounce it, i.e. Mühlhauser.

My own family name, Kruel, is almost always being pronounced wrong since "ue" is usually replaced with "ü" here in Germany. My family name is a special case though, it is pronounced like the English "cruel".

Here are some words that have been mispronounced by prominent LWers in online videos:

• hypocritical (should be like "hippopotamus", not like "hypothermia")
• prestige (stress should be on second syllable, whose vowel is "ee" )

In the first two the o's are long and the u's and e's are short. "Mode"- "us" (like the english words) "Pone" (long o), "Toll" (as in booth) "enz".

Hofstadter I've heard pronounced with the second 't' silent and the 'a' pronounced as a short 'e'. The 'o' is short. Hoff- stedder. Jaynes, I believe is just a long 'a', silent e. Parfit is "par" as in "par for the course" and "fit" as in "you should exercise to get fit".

Upvoted, asking around for stuff like this on Lesswrong seems an easy way to get such knowledge. In the past I've speculated about the signalling of mispronunciation so I'm pretty interested in the kind of stuff people tend to mangle.

Approximations by Google Translate (click on the "listen" icon on the right):

Modus Tollens (Latin) Modus Ponens (Latin) Hofstadter (German) Jaynes (English) Deutsch (German)

I'm quite impressed by the quality of Google Translate; the pronunciations match well what I envision based on my modest Latin and German knowledge.

I'm not sure about "Parfit"'s linguistic origins. As a random shot at it, here is a French version with silent "t".