Stop. You're going to attract the thorn person. This is chum in the water for them.
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The a in anyone is actually pronounced like æ. Unlike the a in hand.
The ø, however, is nothing like the o in one. It’s more like the eu in French, but doesn’t exist in English sounds. The Daniel word bøh (meaning boo) or øh (meaning uhm), does sound like the ir in bird, but that’s a rare pronounciation of ø that depends on the h.
I'd argue as a sound it does exist, think of the 'uh' in 'duh'. But it doesn't have a single letter associated with it.
Would be låvely if English speakers finally lørn hæw the letters æctually sæond?
As a Danish guy, please don't. I get confused enough when you mash æ, ø, or å into random words.
Reading the header with Norwegian eyes was horrible, and it took way too long for me to actually see what they were trying to say
As a Danish man you need to tell me how much truth there is to this. Please.
There's some truth to it but I can't say if it is unique to Denmark. There's some phrasings and words used in Jutland that's completely foreign for people in Zealand. We also have our fringe dialects that are closer to being an entirely different language.
But what is true is that Danish puts way less emphasis on consonants and endings of words are often "swallowed" so to say, so for Norwegians and Swedes it might seem that we have a speech impediment at best. A joke in Scandinavia is that the easiest way to learn Danish is to learn Swedish and put a potato in your mouth while you speak.
Kamelåså?
Cygelkule!
Spisniegel!
Þhat's a great idea
Where's the Lemmy user who unironically uses the thorn in all of their posts? You should hook up with that person!
I got annoyed at that, so I just set up a replace on every web page that I open to change the thorn to a th. Haven't even thought about it until seeing your post.
I know who you're referring to, but I haven't seen them in a while.
The supposed justification was that it fucked up AI scraping, which I think was bullshit. Seemed like more of a hipster thing.
Many people can't handle the existing alphabet, imagine for a second if they have to deal with extra letters.
In English extra letters could solve a problem as many letters are pronounced differently depending on context making it not very intuitive to spell some words.
It's a menace for somone who grew with phonetically consistent language
That would be kind of going against language's natural evolution. Many words used to be spelled with way more letters than they are today.
That would be kind of going against language’s natural evolution.
If you can live with horrible changes like million-milliard-billion-biliard changed to million-billion-trillion-quadrillion you can do actually convenient changes.
Every other language except English does it the old way. And translating one system to another is a garbage experience
Folks can't handle the current alphabet because it's being used in the shittiest way possible
Multi-century archaic spelling, preserved spellings in loaned words despite the sounds being different, hell there was a point where Big Dictionary was shoehorning random letters into words to make them more adjacent to their latin counterparts
By all means you could triple the amount of letters in the alphabet and make it work, but as of now it's kinda just the worst case of sunk-cost to ever exist
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