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Captain Obvious checking in: the name (which Engadget classified as "tongue-twisting") literally means "wind strength", or "wind speed" as its called in actual

by unwind 4y ago

Captain Obvious checking in: the name (which Engadget classified as "tongue-twisting") literally means "wind strength", or "wind speed" as its called in actual English. It's two words: "vind" is (surprise) "wind" and "styrka" is "strength". The latter can be pronounced decently by pretending the "y" is perhaps a double "e", or something. It is, admittedly, is a bit weird of a name for a sensor that measures air quality but on the other hand it's Ikea and they name things after their own mind. Source: am Swedish.

input_sh 4y ago
Now I'm curious and since you're already here, what's the difference between VINDTRYRKA and VINDRIKTNING? For context, both are IKEA's air quality sensors, but the new one has a screen.
- Jensson 4y ago
  Vindriktning is wind direction. So you have strength, and direction, so next is Vindvektor?
  - cdaven 4y ago
    There's also the lamp VINDKAST, which in English is "wind throw" or "flurry".
    - bborud 4y ago
      gust of wind
jacooper 4y ago
Actual English?
- smallnix 4y ago
  I guess op meant "proper English " as in "not literally but semantically translated"
  - unwind 4y ago
    Yes, exactly that. Thanks.
- benj111 4y ago
  As opposed to the thing wot they speak in the colonies.
LargoLasskhyfv 4y ago
German: Windstärke (Strength of Wind)
- jacooper 4y ago
  Windgeschwindigkeit for wind speed.
  - LargoLasskhyfv 4y ago
    Also valid, but more specific, like meters per second. I've been referring to the (more commonly used?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale where the scale is more coarse.