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[–] 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Look, if you add æ and ø you also have to add å, otherwise Danes will be confused.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    does ø have a name? just o with a line or what

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Us nords have nine vowel letters:

    • a e i
    • o u y
    • æ ø å

    and they all are just themselves for a name. Like e isn't "c with a line" any more than q is "o with a leg".

    They're also all monophthongs, which is hard to communicate to anglophones who pronounce their vowel letters overwhelmingly as diphthongs. E.g. anglos probably read the vowel letters as

    • ey i ay
    • åo ju way
    • ??? ??? ???

    There's an æøå song which might help.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    W just kinda standing here awkwardly

    also now that i'm a few seconds into the song, that is a great song

    i also finally know how to pronounce the name of my favorite shoes correctly. which is either going to relieve or infuriate my danish friend. they refuse to tell me.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    W is a double-v for us, so our alphabet goes uvw (u ve dobbel-ve), rather than uwv (ju dabbel-ju vi).

    Germanic languages vary a bit in their attitude towards w; we Norwegians use it pretty much just as a fancy old-timey v and could frankly drop w from our alphabet without missing anything (just like q is practically never used).

    Germans use w the way we use v, and then use v pretty much like f.

    The anglo w sound is something we have to learn in English class, and even then a lot of people start to hypercorrect and pronounce even the "v"s in English as their w. It can be wery funny to listen to, or wery frustrating.

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