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AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• lemmylommy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Found the Swede

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  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And Swedes sound like Stitch.

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    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Haeigh!

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      • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You:

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  • ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Accurate though. Danish sounds legit like super drunk Swedish at a distance, and uncanny valley up close to anyone speaking Swedish or Norwegian or German.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I have a friend who is Swedish but worked in both Sweden and Denmark for his job and I asked him if he could talk to them in Swedish and them to him in Danish and if they could understand each other and he told me mostly, but they just did it in English.

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      • ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It’s not impossible to understand Danish as a Swede but it’s different enough in terms of sounds, grammar, maths, etc. that it’s indeed like an uncanny valley. It’s close enough at first glance, but then gets really alien when you start to pay attention to it. It’s like catching snippets of a conversation in otherwise white noise.

        I have worked in Denmark too, and share your friend’s experience - both sides default to English.

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• Bumblefumble@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  There are way more than 4 Nordic languages to pick from. Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Faroese, Icelandic, Greenlandic, Sami. Still Danish is of course the worst one.

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  • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Du’ dælme smart.

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    • Bumblefumble@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Jo tak, det siger min mor også til mig.

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    • tehitype@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Undskyld hva sir du! Pft

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      • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Not sure if serious, but anyway it means “you damn smart”.

        In Danish it has become a commonly known allegory used for threatening to initiate a fight over someone being provokingly clever. It started with a viral video in which two guys argue over a pocket bike.

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  • dojan@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m sure there are more than that. Älvdalska comes to mind. Isn’t Sami a group of languages rather than a singular distinct language?

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    • Bumblefumble@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ok yeah for sure. Greenlandic isn’t a singular language either I think.

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      • logi@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Nor is Norwegian. For simplicity’s sake they bundle all the dialects together as Nynorsk.

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  • AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Ahh i didnt count faroe and i only thought of the north germanic ones. Interesting mistake because i live in sweden and i myself am a finno-ugric speaker by being a native hungarian speaker.

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    • lars@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Are there still any phrases that Finnish people say that you can clearly understand?

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      • AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        No just a few words. I have a finnish friend who learnt some hungarian and is also a finnish teacher so sometimes he meets people who speak hungarian and are learning finnish. From him the main thing that i heard is that the grammar is similar but hungarian is more chaotic.

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• rabber@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Could pick the one that sounds like elvish but no let’s pick the one that sounds like mouth full of potatoes

  Absolutely disgusting

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• tux0r@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Then again, US-American English is not exactly the most sophisticated sounding language either.

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    English is considered one of the hardest languages to learn because we have rules. And then we don’t use them. It doesn’t help that it’s actually something like a 5 language mash up.

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    • Voyajer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The upside is you can speak in the most broken English imaginable and with patience you’ll be able to get much of your point across

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    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If English were one of the hardest languages to learn, it would not be the most common second language worldwide. It is a difficult language to master, but we barely conjugate verbs, have only remnants of a case system, and no grammatical gender.

      The hardest parts about English are the spelling and the advanced weird cases, like “I will have done that by tonight,” but those are not things that the standard language learner has to care about. It’s perfectly fine to ignore all the rules that don’t inhibit communication, so no ESL speaker needs to learn about not splitting infinitives or ending sentences with prepositions (unless they want to do academic writing in the arts, I guess).

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      • TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Greek, Latin, French were once important languages, yet no-one ever called them easy. English seems easy to you because you’re used to it. The grammar, especially the tenses, are extraordinarily hard to get right and I would comment a lot more if I knew which fucking tense to use when.
        Case in point: English grammar links to “English verbs,” a huge Wikipedia article on its own, and it branches further out to stuff like “Simple past” with their own Wikipedia pages. You - you realize other languages don’t have something similar, not because they are necessarily less spoken, but because they don’t need it?

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    • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      we have rules. And then we don’t use them

      That’s the most succinct explanation I’ve seen of what’s wrong with English

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• woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You have 4 nordic languages to pic from and you not only pick the worst one but also the one thats probably one of the worst languages of all time.

  I’d rather learn Danish than Finnish (also, I count 6 Nordic languages: Danish, Swedish, Finnish, the two Norwegian languages of which one if a Danish dialect, and Icelandic, plus there are surely a few minority languages, probably in the far north or so).

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  • AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    As another commenter said you also have faroe, sami and a lot of languages in greenland. The two norwegians dont really count as two different languages. Calssifying north germanic languages can be a bit hard because its a language continuum.

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    • v_krishna@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Two Norwegians are actually like 14 different languages. I had a girlfriend from Trondheim, i had learned “nynorsk” while living in Sognogfjordane and had a much easier time understanding people in Aarhus where we lived vs her dialect.

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• ChillPenguin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  If this is all I have to worry about. Then I’m all in.

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• Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Too late English already dragged Danish into the alley. We’re getting some new words! Woooooooo!

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    you’re gonna get their pronunciation too and it’s going to bleed over into the rest of the language. might as well throw away your hard consonants right now, it’s all rødgrød med fløde from now on

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    • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Oh we’ll probably an ia ending on a few of those and throw some extra vowels in for no reason at all. (Looking at you Bible Belt)

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      • lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        i don’t think that’s physically possible

        bear in mind she’s the prime minister speaking officially, so she’s actively trying to speak slowly and clearly

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• GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  This post brought to you by the government of Sweden

  (agreed though)

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  • AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Lol maybe

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