2w ago

Swiss Rule

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Swiss is Switzerland.
- I am not a smart man
  
  But I know what love is.
  
  Reminds me when I was a person from Switzerland living in the UK, and this girl started randomly talking to me in Swedish. And was super suprised when I seemed confused. Apparently, her friend had told her I was Swedish. 😭
we have over 250 000 of them, what do you expect
- you have over 250,000 ö's?
  
  öyup
  
  over 250'000 öar, gäss sör
We don't really like to talk to people, so we got another one: Å. That is water that is smaller than a river, bigger than a brook.
- So you can technically have an Ö in an Å?
  
  I åa ä e ö, å i öa ä e å!
  (In the stream there is an island, and on the island there is a stream.)
  
  Usually island means a larger land mass, not just a bit of dirt sticking out of a creek, so probably not. An å on an ö though probably.
- That's a stream in English.
  River>Stream>Brook~Creek>Rivulet. I don't think anyone would yell at you for using stream, brook and creek interchangeably though.
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=2ZEBkdGJnl4
Americans don't say "island", they say "eyeland"
- "is that land?"
  "yes, is land."
  Is land.
  Island.
  language is funny.
  
  "Be that land?"
  "Aye! Land!"
  👍🏽
  
  Island means land of ice too.
- also the spelling is made up, it should be "iland" but some fucking scribes thought it'd be cooler if it matched french/latin because oooo fancy
The shorter a word is the more importance it has for a given language.
That's why the dutch word for pudding is only 3 letters.
- It's still pudding. I can't even think of another word.
  
  Vla
We need to convince the Croatians to accept Swedish as their second official language. Then we could have an Ö named Krk.
- Or, inte the swedish tradition of just appending ö to the end of words: Krkö
it is the one that most looks like an island, though.
Don't ask those svensk fuckers what they call Iceland though.
- Is it not "Island"?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Iceland
So for them, an island is as important as "I" for English speakers.
- …you think an importance of a word stems from its length?
  Cat-god… hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
  
  Actually, yeah, kinda?
  Like, there are only so many one-syllable words. Even fewer words that are just a single letter.
  Generally you don't want to waste them on complicated, niche concepts that only come up rarely.
In Norway it's "øy".
- Thats way to long
  
  In Denmark it's just Ø. Back to sanity
Hörrö
i-land
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_I-Land
- Presented by Tim Apple.
En ö i sjö i ösjö.
섬
Insle. Or île. Or isola.
Koh
- “What is ‘Thailand’, Alex?”
  (Or are we going with “Ken” these days?)
  
  🇯🇵🤝🇹🇭
  🗣️こぉ เกาะ👄

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