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The great Nordic debate: pick your side
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WFU03
Groupie
Norway
Joined 6677 days ago
62 posts - 70 votes

Speaks: English*
Studies: Norwegian, French

Message 33 of 36

20 May 2009 at 12:23am | IP Logged

Hencke wrote:

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.

I'm surprised you don't just flip your keyboard to Swedish. Whenever I feel like typing in Norwegian, I just change the keyboard layout in Windows. It takes about one second to change back and forth. Faster than typing any alt + combo in my mind.
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sakvaka
Triglot
Newbie
Finland
Joined 5666 days ago
6 posts - 7 votes
Speaks: Finnish*, Swedish, English
Studies: Italian

Message 34 of 36

23 May 2009 at 4:18pm | IP Logged

We can also discuss which sound is better: the close-mid [ø] (Finnish ööli, Swedish öar) or the open(-mid) [œ] (Swedish för, Danish bønne - as if someone vomited).
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Hencke
Tetraglot
Moderator
Spain
Joined 6896 days ago
2340 posts - 2444 votes

Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, English^C2, Spanish
Studies: Mandarin
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Message 35 of 36

24 May 2009 at 4:30am | IP Logged

WFU03 wrote:

I'm surprised you don't just flip your keyboard to Swedish. Whenever I feel like typing in Norwegian, I just change the keyboard layout in Windows.

Yes I know, but my fingers haven't learned where those characters are on the swedish keyboard, so when I try that I end up experimenting where each one is, and then some other special characters change places too.
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zerothinking
Senior Member
Australia
Joined 6374 days ago
528 posts - 772 votes

Speaks: English*

Message 36 of 36

24 May 2009 at 5:59am | IP Logged

huh?! X 1,000,000

I love them all. What the? Maybe I'm not getting it. haha.

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