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Re:How the Å came to be by asfdsfggtfd on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @03:58AM (#16059522)
Although a Swedish person might disagree about how to write ø and æ...
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Re:How the Å came to be by wingerlang on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @06:23AM (#16060105)
Why? Those characters are not used in the Swedish language.
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Re:How the Å came to be by emj on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @07:06AM (#16060298)
AFAIK they sound exactly the same like København and Köpenhamn.
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Re:How the Å came to be by interfixus on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @07:14AM (#16060341)
That's actually not quite the same ø. The Swedish one is slightly lighter. Use the deeper Danish ø-sound in a Swedish context, and you clearly sound like a Dane speaking Swedish.
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Re:How the Å came to be by tilt_error on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @06:37PM (#16066569)
The same is true for ä and æ. The latter has a broader sound while the former sounds a bit closer to e. It is easy to spot Norwegians talking Swedish (such as myself :)
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Re:How the Å came to be by asfdsfggtfd on Thursday January 04, 2018 @01:59AM (#16068538)
You try to talk Swedish rather than just speaking Norwegian? My experience is that Scandinavians just speak their native language and expect that other Scandinavians should understand them. Any attempts to speak the other language end up sounding like parodies rather than serious attempts.
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Re:How the Å came to be by emj on Thursday January 04, 2018 @04:12PM (#16074136)
Not sure it's different enough to warrant a new letter, but Spanish O and Scandinavian Å has the same sound so I guess it's all very muddled.
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