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[–] [email protected] 51 points 7 months ago (16 children)

The German compound noun thing also works in other Germanic languages like, say, Dutch, Swedish and Old English. You can blame the Normans (i.e. a bunch of snobbish Vikings who, a generation earlier, decided to speak only French) for modern English’s lack of them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Swedish is a Germanic language tf? Just checked Wikipedia and spparently you're right

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Fun fact: The Frisian language (and Dutch by extension) has overlapping origin with both Danish and Swedish.

We can usually grasp a lot of conversational Danish and Swedish because a lot of the words are similar.

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