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Which European language am I reading (jlai.lu)
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cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/9070854

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[–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why is “ø y” a no for Denmark, but a yes for Norway? I’m pretty sure both countries have the same alphabet?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The "øy" is written without a space between the letters, which seems to mean that these letters occur together in words (more obvious example: "eau" leads into French).

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The problem is that we can put words together to form new words. So say I produced a yogurt at a lake(sø) , I could call it søyougurt. It's not a word that would be in a dictionary though, but lots of that kind of words aren't.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Maybe within one syllable then?

    I mean, I'm not looking to defend this diagram, I have no idea if it's correct. And frankly I would be surprised if it is anything more than an approximation, since language is always messy.

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