• 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.