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...so apparently the sharks are pronounced like "Blow-High". I've always pronounced them like "Blah-Hajj", from how they are spelled lmao (lemmygrad.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

i wish the letters matched with how they're pronounced 😭😭

ä and ö sound so differently outside of northern europe

i'd never think å would sound like "oh!" since it has "a" in it

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

the letters do match with how they're pronounced though...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

i meant like i wished that the letters matched with how they'd LOOK like they'd be pronounced. sorry, english language moment.

i used to think that ä = a pronounced twice (so like "aa"). but TIL that apparently in swedish ä has a different pronunciation.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

english language "insticts" are a terrible place to start for most languages using latin letters. if you start from what the letters meant in latin and know a little bit of what the hell went on in the middle ages (or are at least vaguely familiar with the spelling of a few european languages), these arent that odd. okay, the å is, because that's a uniquely nordic replacement for "aa", the older spelling. and the pronunciation has shifted over the centuries to an o-like sound.

but ä/ö are pretty standard forms for what used to be 'ae' and 'oe' (or æ and œ). they sound pretty similar to german or finnish (or a bunch of others) ä/ö, even when they're not identical.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

nerd Acktually, in German ä represents more of an ”eh” sound, completely different from the Finnish ä.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's got a tiny lil o up there too though!

(easier to notice in actual print than on a zoomed out computer screen)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

yes, but before this i'd think it was pronounced like "a" and "o" combined lol