I was about to Have Opinions about the threats the US is making to Greenland, Denmark and Europe, then realised I have nothing useful to add, so I pressed Delete.

[booksandjohn@mastodonapp.uk]

@CiaraNi nor is there an apostrophe in the word apostrophe, nor . . . [you get the idea]

[tanghus@freeradical.zone]

@CiaraNi @hanscees
> insists on persisting with the use of diaeresis - naïve, coöperation, etc

I think it's kinda sexy. Maybe because it makes me think of Anaïs Nin.

[ciarani@mastodon.green]

@ben_b_here @tml I'm trying and failing to pronounce these, but having fun trying

[log@mastodon.sdf.org]

@CiaraNi Could manage one on a diëresis.

[czottmann@norden.social]

@CiaraNi ümläütß

There you go

[ciarani@mastodon.green]

@shivers @psneeze I always liked the fact that fada just means 'long', the plain practicality of it. I didn't know 'umlaut' has a similar trait. 'About sound'. That was a pleasing new-to-me thing to learn. GRMA

[tanghus@freeradical.zone]

@wannabemystiker @CiaraNi I think it depends on what side of the "stødgrænse" (dunno how to translate that) you are.
https://dialekt.ku.dk/maanedens_emne/stoedgraensen/

[ciarani@mastodon.green]

@jbiserkov It says it's a "hyperforeign misspelling', but I'd vote for it.

[ciarani@mastodon.green]

@penpencilbrush yes indeed, and that's the kind of thing up with which I will not put

[ciarani@mastodon.green]

@czottmann Haha, danke very much, that's a pleasing collection of letters

[psneeze@mastodon.ie]

@shivers @CiaraNi I never knew that.

[ciarani@mastodon.green]

@wannabemystiker I know, right? When Mette Frederiksen is finished with Trump, we'll ask her to get on to fixing this next.

[ciarani@mastodon.green]

@tanghus @wannabemystiker That's a very interesting article. Thanks for sharing it. I've bookmarked for a deeper read later.

This pleased me to read:

"Men det er ikke danskerne syd for stødgrænsen der udtaler ordene underligt. Faktisk er det underligt at danskerne nord for stødgrænsen overhovedet begyndte at ’støde’.

[ciarani@mastodon.green]

@BooksandJohn We should really do something about that

[timtfj@mastodon.social]

@CiaraNi Maybe you could say in a Northern Irish accent and call it an an umlaüt? That's the only way I can see to put one in without mangling the sound of the word.

[ciarani@mastodon.green]

@tanghus @hanscees Ha - it does actually have a kind of sexy aura in Anaïs. I waver between thinking the New Yorker is being pretentious and thinking the New Yorker is keeping good linguistic traditions alive, depending on how good a lunch I had on the given day I'm thinking about it.

[ciarani@mastodon.green]

@log That'd do

[ciarani@mastodon.green]

@timtfj Ah sure let's put at least two of them in there while we're at it. There are three vowels, so that'd still be quite restrained.

[tanghus@freeradical.zone]

@CiaraNi @hanscees

[bracken@ruby.social]

@CiaraNi maybe it's like how you're not suppose to use a word as part of the definition for that word.