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The great Nordic debate: pick your side | ||
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| Masked Avenger Triglot Senior Member Antarctica Joined 6136 days ago 145 posts - 151 votes  Speaks: English, French*, Danish Studies: Finnish, Latin | Message 1 of 36 15 April 2009 at 4:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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In this corner, we have the Finnish/Swedish tango with their ä and ö.
And in the other corner, we have the Dano-Norwegian tag team with their æ and ø. Pick and choose your favorite! P.S. Icelandic spelling disqualified for being just rehash medieval spelling. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Olekander Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5885 days ago 122 posts - 136 votes Speaks: English*, French, Russian | Message 2 of 36 15 April 2009 at 8:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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I prefer swedish as a language, but I definitely prefer the æ and the ø
:) the icelandic ð has to be the prettiest letter in the world. My English O's often look like that for some reason. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| portunhol Triglot Senior Member United States thelinguistblogger.w Joined 6254 days ago 198 posts - 299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: German, Arabic (classical) | Message 3 of 36 15 April 2009 at 8:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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I choose the Dano-Norwegian tag team but for purely personal reasons.
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| Louis Triglot Groupie Italy Joined 5732 days ago 92 posts - 110 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish | Message 4 of 36 15 April 2009 at 9:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've always liked the æ and the ø, but since I study Icelandic I also get the ö, ý, ð, and þ. :D
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| ExtraLean Triglot Senior Member France languagelearners.myf Joined 5996 days ago 897 posts - 880 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 5 of 36 15 April 2009 at 9:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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Norwegien.
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| Kegel Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 6441 days ago 67 posts - 70 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 6 of 36 15 April 2009 at 9:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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I know ä and ö from German of course, but I'm a fan of æ and ø ;)
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6705 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 36 15 April 2009 at 10:03pm | IP Logged | ||
Modern Icelandic has the letter 'ö', but in Old Norse texts you will find 'ọ' (an o with a cedille). So on this point Icelandic isn't rehashing medieval spelling. Edited by Iversen on 15 April 2009 at 10:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6680 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 8 of 36 16 April 2009 at 8:49am | IP Logged | ||
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I don't really like æ. I think it may be because I was once typing with a Norwegian keyboard to a Norwegian person, and threw in some of my usual random letter combinations to express fatigue or desperation, or in this case perhaps denial, such as "nääääää" in Swedish, which with this keyboard turned into "nææææææ" and I got "you make me think of a drunk Dane" in reply from my Norwegian friend. Somehow, that changed my relationship to that letter, and I therefore choose the ä/ö camp.
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