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For those unaware, 'spraak' is 'speech' in Dutch.
by nightcracker 10y ago
For those unaware, 'spraak' is 'speech' in Dutch.
- spraak 10y agoHehe good catch! (and also 'language' in Norwegian)
- lomnakkus 10y agoWell, with the "å"[1] it is :). Also in Swedish, I think? Danish has "sprog" which sounds a lot funnier if you say it "in English". In Danish it sounds quite similar to språk -- just soften everything until it turns into a mush of vowels. [1] For people not versed in Scandiwegian, there's this tradition of "å" -> "aa", "æ" -> "ae", "ø/ö" -> "oe" from the olden days... which is surprisingly useful even in these days of (one would hope) "pervasive" Unicode. :)
- kuschku 10y agoAnd in low German it’s Spraak, and in high German it’s Sprache. So close, yet so far.
- lomnakkus 10y agoPfff... you fools! :p
- spraak 10y agoIt's common to write aa as å when it's not available (though I only assumed it wouldn't work in HN, maybe it does). Also historically it was aa and became å Edit: work as in for a username.
- kwhitefoot 10y ago> and also 'language' in Norwegian Only for those without a Norwegian keyboard. Should be språk.
- spraak 10y agoTrue.. språk is how I meant it, but I couldn't register as that on HN. å evolved from aa..