we have over 250 000 of them, what do you expect
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you have over 250,000 ö's?
over 250'000 öar, gäss sör
öyup
Swiss is Switzerland.
I am not a smart man
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Reminds me when I was a person from Switzerland living in the UK, and this girl started randomly talking to me in Swedish. And was super suprised when I seemed confused. Apparently, her friend had told her I was Swedish. 😭
Austrian Kangaroos are also fun.
oh no 😂 well, glad there's at least 1 other person as dumb as me
But I know what love is.
Americans don't say "island", they say "eyeland"
also the spelling is made up, it should be "iland" but some fucking scribes thought it'd be cooler if it matched french/latin because oooo fancy
"is that land?"
"yes, is land."
Is land.
Island.
language is funny.
"Be that land?"
"Aye! Land!"
👍🏽
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We don't really like to talk to people, so we got another one: Å. That is water that is smaller than a river, bigger than a brook.
That's a stream in English.
River>Stream>Brook~Creek>Rivulet. I don't think anyone would yell at you for using stream, brook and creek interchangeably though.
So you can technically have an Ö in an Å?
I åa ä e ö, å i öa ä e å!
(In the stream there is an island, and on the island there is a stream.)
Usually island means a larger land mass, not just a bit of dirt sticking out of a creek, so probably not. An å on an ö though probably.
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The shorter a word is the more importance it has for a given language.
That's why the dutch word for pudding is only 3 letters.
And, of course, the importance of pud to English speakers.
It's still pudding. I can't even think of another word.
Vla
We need to convince the Croatians to accept Swedish as their second official language. Then we could have an Ö named Krk.
Or, inte the swedish tradition of just appending ö to the end of words: Krkö
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it is the one that most looks like an island, though.
Hörrö
So for them, an island is as important as "I" for English speakers.
…you think an importance of a word stems from its length?
Cat-god… hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Actually, yeah, kinda?
Like, there are only so many one-syllable words. Even fewer words that are just a single letter.
Generally you don't want to waste them on complicated, niche concepts that only come up rarely.
That is not how the development of language works in any way though.
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Don't ask those svensk fuckers what they call Iceland though.
Is it not "Island"?
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En ö i sjö i ösjö.
In Norway it's "øy".
øy u wøt m8
Thats way to long
In Denmark it's just Ø. Back to sanity
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