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[–] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

Stop. You're going to attract the thorn person. This is chum in the water for them.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago

    K, let's just dump all phonetic symbols

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  • [–] 1 point 6 hours ago

    You would add æ and not œ ? Sacrilege !

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  • [–] 5 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 12 hours ago

    Would be låvely if English speakers finally lørn hæw the letters æctually sæond?

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  • [–] 25 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    As a Danish guy, please don't. I get confused enough when you mash æ, ø, or å into random words.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    As a Danish man you need to tell me how much truth there is to this. Please.

    https://youtu.be/s-mOy8VUEBk?is=2BNSlwJmpFlHmqRm

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  • [–] 7 points 19 hours ago

    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.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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    Where's the Lemmy user who unironically uses the thorn in all of their posts? You should hook up with that person!

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    [–] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Many people can't handle the existing alphabet, imagine for a second if they have to deal with extra letters.

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  • [–] 2 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 17 hours ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 12 hours ago

    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

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    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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