• esa@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 hours ago

      Us nords have nine vowel letters:

      • a e i
      • o u y
      • æ ø å

      and they all are just themselves for a name. Like e isn’t “c with a line” any more than q is “o with a leg”.

      They’re also all monophthongs, which is hard to communicate to anglophones who pronounce their vowel letters overwhelmingly as diphthongs. E.g. anglos probably read the vowel letters as

      • ey i ay
      • åo ju way
      • ??? ??? ???

      There’s an æøå song which might help.

      • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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        4 hours ago

        W just kinda standing here awkwardly

        also now that i’m a few seconds into the song, that is a great song

        i also finally know how to pronounce the name of my favorite shoes correctly. which is either going to relieve or infuriate my danish friend. they refuse to tell me.