tl;dr: Dear Criminal Minds people...

[mangacat201]

... please, if you're using a special terminology including a German term, please, God, look up the correct pronounciation and teach your actors, cause the first time you said the word it sounded Swahili to me and when I actually saw it written down, my eyes bugged out when it suddenly made sense. And that threw me completely out of an episode that was geared towards a very specific dramatic effect that got totally shafted because of my preoccupation.

And please, tell me that is not the way chess-playing peeps all over the world pronounce it.

That's all, sorry for the rant.

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[dolnmoon.livejournal.com]

I had no idea what it meant, had to look it up.. but you would think Criminal minds would do a better job if how they are pronouncing it is incorrect.. they are such a technical show.

BTW I LOVE Crimnal Minds.. its number 3 on my top 10 list. spn the walking dead and criminal minds

[mangacat201.livejournal.com]

I didn't even get the idea to look it up because I wouldn't have known where to start and I couldn't even imagine which language it might belong to,I thought it was a made up term!
Most of the time when shows try and use German to make themselves look worldly and intelligent (hello NCIS LA) I just laugh at it, cause at least we get subtitles... I looked Zugzwang up and the pronounciation recording at dict.cc is not quite what it really should be but not as abysmal as the onscreen version. And I'd think the CM-nerds would go the extra mile for something like that. LOL, I get hung up on the weirdest things. I was actually pleasantly surprised how well the 'Germans' did in 'Everybody hates Hitler' probably because they had a real German with them that could teach them properly. I could understand them without the subtitles.
I've been loving the past couple of seasons with CM a lot (except for the killing-Maeve part, that was over the top drama for a character that would have had so many more miles in her. But yeah...