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by hashmush 6y ago
I use icanhazip.com
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by hashmush 6y ago
Slightly related, a now famous bus/car trap in Stockholm that became a short documentary: https://www.svtplay.se/video/17480166/sparviddshinder (only in Swedish, but should be viewable globally)
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by hashmush 6y ago
Definitely and to add to that, to my understanding (better than basic, far from fluent), 是 is more of a fallback verb following the same pattern than it is a translation of "yes".
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by hashmush 6y ago
Isn't Mandarin a typical example without yes and no? You answer affirmatively but repeating the verb and negatively by negating the verb. (it's not really that simple, but it illustrates the point)
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by hashmush 6y ago
Vasaru? I don't think the point is that it would sound like "huh" in all languages, but rather that there is a word used like "huh" in all languages. "Va" definitely fits, as you even said "we have &#
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by hashmush 7y ago
I agree, I'm happy that I managed to buy two courses with books and mp3s before they switched to the online version.
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by hashmush 7y ago
Went to school in Sweden too in the 90-00s. I wasn't taught long division until I had to divide polynomials in my last year of high school, and that course was an elective.
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by hashmush 7y ago
It's the same with <ch> and <sh> for me. It took way too long for me to realize that they are different sounds in English ((Standard) Swedish does not have any affricates), or that <z> is supposed to sound different f
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by hashmush 7y ago
The Wikipedia article on the Sj-sound has some audio samples for those wanting to know what it can sound like. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sj-sound
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by hashmush 7y ago
Which makes isglass such a great word.
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by hashmush 8y ago
Well, it works for many cognates. Haus/house/hus all come from the same word, so if you know that it's "ein/das Haus" you can expect it to be "ett hus/huset" in Swedish. Same with e.g Hund/h
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by hashmush 8y ago
It is illegal in a lot of countries if I'm reading this page correctly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones_and_driving_safe...
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by hashmush 8y ago
That would be an involution! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involution_(mathematics)
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by hashmush 9y ago
This is confusing. I thought it was just a couple of friends and I that thought that cashless is a horrible idea. Seems like we at least have older people on our side. > Yet Sweden is divided into two camps: the first says "we love
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by hashmush 9y ago
Herbal tea is örtte (lit. herb + tea). Chai is something different.
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by hashmush 9y ago
It's always funny to see "STARGÅTE", the Norwegian space puzzle [1]. Also, for more confusing uses of umlauts/diacritics, see the Wikipedia article on "Röck Döts" [2]. [1] https://en.wiktionary.org&#
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by hashmush 9y ago
I agree. A really annoying "feature". I can understand it if you use the English qwerty-layout but not when you use the Swedish/Norwegian/Danish/German layout. There is an open issue for this over at the android iss