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As a side note, it should be "Ms. Seppälä". As a Finn, I always find it a little weird how most media can't be bothered to handle Nordic characters.
by container 9y ago
As a side note, it should be "Ms. Seppälä". As a Finn, I always find it a little weird how most media can't be bothered to handle Nordic characters.
- unixhero 9y agoThose characters aren't reachable on a US keyboard. Thät's why :) Maybe.
- Freak_NL 9y agoCould it be that this person of Finnish descent who works in the US uses an anglicized version of her name on purpose? I'm usually quite pedantic about diacritic character neglect, but in this case this might be correct; the CCARE (her employer) website does this too.
- pamqzl 9y agoAnd as an English speaker I always find it weird how everybody wants to speak our language but nobody wants to conform to our alphabet. If I was writing in Finnish then I'd chuck in some umlaauts. But right now we're speaking English, and we Englishmen did away with that kind of baloney about eight hundred years ago. Maybe if the Finnish Empire had conquered the world we could be speaking Finnish, but you didn't, so we're not.
- sctb 9y agoCould you please not be so gratuitously disrespectful? It's not civil and it doesn't belong here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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