Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany

Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The v is an f in the beginning of the word and a v in the middle of a word.

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  • Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I love how we all just keep adding to the clusterfuck that is the German language. ❤️

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• BigBrownBeaver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And s is z, z is c

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• ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Too far.

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  • Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh yeah? This symbol = ß that looks deceptively like a mangled B is the double S in German.

    Don’t get me started on their states. My favourite is Mecklenburg-Vorpommern because it sounds like a curse word you’d yell out in pain after stepping on a Lego.

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Also umlauts.

      Which might seem confusing but I wish English used accents/umlauts to show pronounciation because that would do a lot to unfuck the spelling of this powerful but bastard of a language.

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      • Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Oh for sure. I do have to admit, though, that I very much enjoy when Americans use umlauts in inappropriate ways. And as a Dane I have feel special joy when they replace their o’s with ø in an attempt to make words look hardcore, cool and Nordic.

        That, my friend, is endlessly entertaining to me and will never not be funny.

        I remember that one album by Twenty One Pilots where literally every o was replaced with and ø on the cover and I was friggin crying and hyperventilating the first time I saw it. I haven’t listened to any of the songs. They may go really hard and be masterpieces, but to me I can never take that album seriously. They really thought that ø is just a cooler looking o and not its own letter with a very distinct sound that, in the context of English would make every word sound like it’s being spoken by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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  • rucksack@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Too var.

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