testeronious@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago“I was thrown out of fourth grade because I couldn’t write my own name, and it’s all been downhill from there” - Linus Torvaldswww.yarchive.netexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up185arrow-down17
arrow-up178arrow-down1external-link“I was thrown out of fourth grade because I couldn’t write my own name, and it’s all been downhill from there” - Linus Torvaldswww.yarchive.nettesteronious@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square8fedilink
minus-squarepalordrolap@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 months agoThat probably works for any closely related language pairs. Finns thinking the same of Estonian, some English folks definitely formed that opinion of Scots the first time seeing it in print, Polish and Czech, etc. etc.
minus-squareboonhet@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months agoProbably. Tbf with Estonian and Finnish, it’s like they took what was weird about our language and amplified it lol Umlauts everywhere!
That probably works for any closely related language pairs. Finns thinking the same of Estonian, some English folks definitely formed that opinion of Scots the first time seeing it in print, Polish and Czech, etc. etc.
Probably.
Tbf with Estonian and Finnish, it’s like they took what was weird about our language and amplified it lol
Umlauts everywhere!