• IndiBrony@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    As someone who isn’t clued up on Nordic languages and has no idea how any of this is supposed to be pronounced, my brain just went to the overtones for help

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      10 days ago

      Æ = Like the A in (American) “asshole”
      Å = Like the A in (British) “awful”.
      Ø = Like the U in (American) “Ugly”.

      As a Scandinavian, one of my biggest pet peeves is when someone uses Ø instead of O because they think it looks cool. Sure, whatever, but it makes reading it really insufferable. Imagine if someone typed your name as UnduBrani and expected you to pronounce it the same while not tripping over decades of reading practice.