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The great Nordic debate: pick your side | ||
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| ruivabela Newbie United States kellys-langs.blogspo Joined 6548 days ago 9 posts - 9 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Norwegian, Romanian, Polish, Bulgarian, Serbian | Message 25 of 36 27 April 2009 at 4:20am | IP Logged | ||
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I'll go with Dano-Norwegian, because I'm learning Norwegian (I use that term very loosely, since I haven't picked it up in a while), and at one time wanted to learn Danish.
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| pyroladgn Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5824 days ago 7 posts - 10 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Studies: French, Portuguese | Message 26 of 36 17 May 2009 at 7:17am | IP Logged | ||
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I also share a fascination regarding Scandinavia, though my recent Economics class is more to blame (I had to write a group paper on various economic systems).
I'm also interested in how the languages are all so closely related (and why/how Danish shifted à la French with it's silent letters, etc.), much like Latin's evolution into the present-day romance languages that I study. My vote? I just can't resist the æ and ø ! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6554 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes  1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew | Message 27 of 36 17 May 2009 at 8:19am | IP Logged | ||
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Of course the ae and oe ligatures exist and are obligatory in proper French. "Sœur" for example. "æ" is rarer and used primarily in Latin words.
French wins as the stand in. ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| couragepiece93 Groupie United States Joined 5770 days ago 77 posts - 78 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian, Latin | Message 28 of 36 18 May 2009 at 1:55am | IP Logged | ||
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I like both ways. I love Norwegian & Danish with their æ/ø, but Swedish wouldn't be Swedish without the ä/ö.
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| WFU03 Groupie Norway Joined 6677 days ago 62 posts - 70 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian, French | Message 29 of 36 19 May 2009 at 4:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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This is tough for me because I see the breakdown as follows:
ø Awesome letter. How much cooler can you get than a slash through an O? It also leads to creative marketing like this Norwegian beer's logo: 
ä/ö Both are fine and easy enough to write. They aren't terribly unique, but seem kinda cool compared to English. æ An awful letter. Both the capital and lowercase version are hard to write. The sound is hard to make and not very pleasant. Finally, it could be written just as easily as "ae" because it looks almost identical to an that combo. This also decreases its readability from any distance at all. So, does the ø's awesomeness overcome the æ's terribleness? I think so, but just barely. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lizzern Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5911 days ago 791 posts - 1053 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 30 of 36 19 May 2009 at 5:48pm | IP Logged | ||
Many of us actually write it like that (though not all). It's not really a problem though, cause it's unlikely that what you're seeing will be ambiguous... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tupiniquim Senior Member Brazil Joined 6085 days ago 184 posts - 217 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: English, Russian | Message 31 of 36 19 May 2009 at 6:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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. Edited by Tupiniquim on 31 July 2009 at 11:17pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Hencke Tetraglot Moderator Spain Joined 6896 days ago 2340 posts - 2444 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 32 of 36 19 May 2009 at 7:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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On a related note, I'll take this opportunity to vent my frustration a little.
It can feel like living hell actually, trying to type anything in Swedish in webpage input windows, such as in this forum. The familiar Alt-134 combination that I use all the time to write å on a non-Scandinavian keyboard will be interpreted by Firefox as some kind of control sequence that closes the window, and everything I had written up to that point is irretrievably lost !! Grrrr. Many's the time I have inadvertently destroyed, in a split-second, the result of twenty or thirty minutes worth of painstaking creativity and composition. This happens just because that Alt-key combination is so ingrained in my subcoscious that even knowing about it I do it without thinking. You think you can recreate what you wrote, from memory, but somehow it never ends up as good as the original text was. Edited by Hencke on 19 May 2009 at 7:23pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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