• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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    French pronunciation works by geological principles: over the years, what looks like an intricate arrangement of vowels and consonants gets eroded and folded down to what’s essentially a nuanced grunt.

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        “A g å a ø i a å” is a proper sentence where I come from.

        It means: A goat on an island in a river.

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          Where is this and how would you pronounce the “g”?

          Also, you made me think about a story about a shop in a southern Norwegian city, where the owner put up a sign around lunch time: “e æ a å eder” (I am off to eat), the shop owner across the street saw it and made his own sign saying “e æ a e å” (I am off as well (lit. I am off I also))

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            It’s North Jutland. The g is pronounced as “ge” almost like German “geh”.

            I’m not native, and even after 15 years I sometimes still don’t understand the local dialect.

            The Norwegian Kamelåså joke about Danish is funny because its true.