Aspergers and word play

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Does anyone else think of burgers when they say aspergers?


in fact, whenever i say it, i think of an expletive first, which also happens to be a body part, then i think of a burger.



Needless to say, i try to avoid saying that word as much as possible.

Well. I hope i didn't ruin the word for you.

My French accent prevent me from thinking of bugers (P is not B), but I think of a vaccum cleaner because it is called "Aspirateur/aspi" here.

oh, i do soooo hope Willard ( a seasoned WP member with a pronounciation mission ) reads your post ........

just found a recording on youtube about a 14 year old boy with asperger's.
if you forward to 1:02 min, you will hear him pronounce it in german ( with a cute little lisp, )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTivtBMV ... re=related

Last edited by PaleBlueDotty on 19 Aug 2010, 9:00 am, edited 1 time in total.

haha. I'm not saying that i say asburger. But because the words rhyme, i word associate it.

I pronounce it "Aspergerjers" so no, I don't.

In France, it seems that most people says "Asperjèr" though they should pronounce it differently (/ˈasˌpɜrgər/), which is why I can't really think of burgers actually, it doesn't rhyme here.

I've been wondering about this actually. Anybody a native speaker of, or fluent in, (Austrian-?)German, who can tell us how the man's name was actually pronounced, or an educated guess? Shouldn't it be uh-SHPEH-geh or something? (Sorry, I don't do International Phonetics, just Associated Press Broadcast Wire Service!)

On a lighter note, I recently saw a crate of asparagus while shopping, that included the French for it, asperges. Close! (Even closer to a Latin word from an old Catholic hymn, for "sprinkle" [as in, with holy water]. Think they ever used asparagus spears in that ritual?! ! Maybe in France?! ! Just kidding....)

OMG!! Of course!! In answer to my most persistent questions of self-knowledge: this must be why I love asparagus and why I am so drawn to Catholic churches!

That's awesome.

(Oh yeah, and I say it with a "soft" G... precisely for that reason.)

The first time I heard that word I thought the person saying it said assburgers. I thought she was being mean to me.

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There are a lot of creative (and humorous) user names at WP which suggests a lot of those with autism - Asperger can word play.

With Asperger, I tended to view it as As perger primarily because I might be able to remember how to possibly both spell it and pronounce it that way.