I was about to Have Opinions about the threats the US is making to Greenland, Denmark and Europe, then realised I have nothing useful to add, so I pressed Delete.
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@CiaraNi @walfischbucht It seems Estonian has got it right with their word ‘täpid’ for ‘umlaut’. And Finnish has a word ‘ääkönen’ meaning ‘any Finnish letter with an umlaut’, and it's really just the word for letter (‘aakonen’) with umlauts sprinkled on it.
(according to Wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/umlaut#English, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%A4%C3%A4kk%C3%B6nen#Finnish)
@headword @walfischbucht 'Täpid’ - that's more like it. I'm going to need Germans to speak Estonian from now on, so, please.
Also, thanks for this information. Very pleasing to learn.
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@CiaraNi @walfischbucht It seems Estonian has got it right with their word ‘täpid’ for ‘umlaut’. And Finnish has a word ‘ääkönen’ meaning ‘any Finnish letter with an umlaut’, and it's really just the word for letter (‘aakonen’) with umlauts sprinkled on it.
(according to Wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/umlaut#English, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%A4%C3%A4kk%C3%B6nen#Finnish)
@headword @CiaraNi @walfischbucht
Aakonen: Regular letter.
Ääkönen: Fäncÿ lëttër. -
@headword @CiaraNi @walfischbucht
Aakonen: Regular letter.
Ääkönen: Fäncÿ lëttër. -
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@wannabemystiker I know, right? When Mette Frederiksen is finished with Trump, we'll ask her to get on to fixing this next.
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I was about to Have Opinions about the threats the US is making to Greenland, Denmark and Europe, then realised I have nothing useful to add, so I pressed Delete. Instead, here's a picture I took of a bridge because it had splendid umlauts.
@CiaraNi
I might add:The word Mühlenbrücke (mill bridge) is also an interesting case of two silent letters in the German language, one making the preceding vowel long (h) and one that makes it short (c). In other terms: Those two ü's aren't even pronounced the same way.
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@CiaraNi well, you can always create the diminutive with -chen, tweaking it to contain an umlaut:
Umläutchen
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Omlyd, direkte oversat -
The one positive from the fascist's reign is that he has united the rest of the world in a way rarely seen.
As a fellow threatenee, I feel close to Denmark in a way i never have.
We have "elbows up"(a hockey reference) as our rallying cry. Do you have anything similar? -
@CiaraNi
cedilla would like a word. -
I was about to Have Opinions about the threats the US is making to Greenland, Denmark and Europe, then realised I have nothing useful to add, so I pressed Delete. Instead, here's a picture I took of a bridge because it had splendid umlauts.
@CiaraNi Me, too, regarding "nothing useful to add" — no matter how horrified I am.
Very cool umlauts!
