▲ 585 ▼ ænyøne with me? (thelemmy.club) submitted 1 month ago by laurenceOfSuburbia@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world 251 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 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. permalink fedilink source parent
