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Re:Lessons Learned Shipping 500 Units of My First Hardware P... by 4gotunameagain on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @07:26AM (#46885032)
Danish and Norwegian are not linguistically Germanic. If anything, German has more old Norse influences. And dutch.. Well, dutch is the illegitimate child of england and germany.
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Re:Lessons Learned Shipping 500 Units of My First Hardware P... by Arn_Thor on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @08:09AM (#46885394)
>Danish and Norwegian are not linguistically Germanic

Where do you get that notion? My education (and some googling to refresh my memory) has Norwegian, Swedish and Danish classed as "North Germanic" according to comparative linguistics. That is one subset of the West Germanic languages which most of northern Europe speaks.

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Re:Lessons Learned Shipping 500 Units of My First Hardware P... by 4gotunameagain on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @08:29AM (#46885595)
You are right, west germanic is what I had in mind. In my mind north germanic never made sense, but I guess I will leave that to the experts :)
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Re:Lessons Learned Shipping 500 Units of My First Hardware P... by theodric on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @11:18AM (#46887691)
Speaking as someone with an academic background in Germanic historical linguistics: this is thoroughly incorrect.
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