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Not sure why, but when I see certain diacritics with latin alphabet, my brain tries to place the language somewhere in Europe. I don't know if I can call that a
by devsda 2mo ago
Not sure why, but when I see certain diacritics with latin alphabet, my brain tries to place the language somewhere in Europe. I don't know if I can call that an exotic feeling but it certainly feels foreign.
- bonoboTP 2mo agoScandinavia and the Nordics are quite fancy and refined for Americans. Lagom, hygge, fika, the minimalism, the enlightened equality and solidarity, good education, little crime, highest happiness ratings, even prisons are like hotels, etc makes it a kind of imagined lifestyle that's cozy and thoughtful and so on.
- fcatalan 2mo agoThat's how they getcha, and then go full midsommar...
- ErikCorry 2mo agoCould also be Vietnamese, they are big on diacritics.
- xigoi 2mo agoVietnamese can easily be recognized because most words are one syllable and the vowel may even have two diacritics stacked on top.
- decimalenough 2mo agoThanks to French, who came up with the current writing system.
- DonaldFisk 2mo agoA Portuguese Jesuit, actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_de_Pina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_de_Pina
- decimalenough 2mo agoSee also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_branding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_branding (especially the Foreign Orthography section)
- vidarh 2mo agoHäagen-Dazs is American, but was apparently meant to sound Danish. To a Scandinavian it absolutely doesn't.