The OH and I just realized...

[firecat]

...that the word "hallelujah" and the word "schadenfreude" rhyme and scan the same.

Possibilities are left up to the imagination of the reader.

Comments

[pgdudda.livejournal.com]

No, they don't. At least, not in German. The two schwa vowels are distinct in German - the first gets [ʌ], and the second gets [ə], and they are allophones of different phonemes.

(Who, me, pedantic?)

[pogodragon.livejournal.com]

I can't make it work in the accent I use either ... now I want to hear you saying them so that they rhyme.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I hear them scanning the same, but not rhyming.

However, for writing filks, that's all that's necessary.

[pachamama.livejournal.com]

the eu in german is pronounced like english oi, so I don't see quite how they rhyme (I suspect you might be confusing eu with ue, which would be the english transliteration of ü, which would be a near rhyme to the lu in hallelujah), but they scan hilariously the same -- thanks for the chuckle

Re: The OH and I just realized...

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

umm. now i really want to hear you pronounce those, because they neither scan nor rhyme in actual german. :)