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Friendly reminder that these aren't European (anymore) (i.redd.it)

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[-] Rothe@piefed.social 67 points 1 month ago

vaguely Danish sounding name

And creating something that doesn't have the slightest resemblance to Danish, even using a letter "ä" which isn't in the Danish alphabet.

[-] 0x0@infosec.pub 35 points 1 month ago

To be fair, Danes themselves seem only able to resemble their own language, can't really blame an outsider for no resemblance at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-mOy8VUEBk

[-] Cavemanfreak@programming.dev 10 points 1 month ago

Kamelåså!

[-] Nangijala@feddit.dk 7 points 1 month ago

FOUND THE SWEDE! D:<

[-] mko@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago

Except that the video was done by NRK - Norwegian national TV. All the Nordic countries can be brutal at heckling each other - all in good fun.

[-] Nangijala@feddit.dk 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Swede. Norwegian. Potato. Potato.

They're just mad because we used to own their asses and had a flag so awesome they got jelly and copied our design.

Denmark superior country. 👏 and don't kid yourself into thinking we are compensating because our nature is flat chested af and 60% is spent on growing pig food instead of protecting wildlife. And we are totally not ass mad that there is no tone or life in our language that more so resemble throat cancer than song when we speak. DENMARK COOL. DENMARK AWESOME. Sweden lame. Norway gay. DENMARK DENMARK DENMARK.

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 7 points 1 month ago

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 14 points 1 month ago

It’s pretty German. Nothing to do with Danish.

[-] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 24 points 1 month ago

Very little resemblance to German either. Words with "äa" aren't a thing, neither are words that end in "zs".

[-] NachBarcelona@piefed.social 13 points 1 month ago

Was für ein präambelartiges Witzsegment von einem Kommentar.

[-] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 8 points 1 month ago

Compound words are cheating, but you got me with Präambel!

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 7 points 1 month ago

Not the spelling yes, but both “Hagen” and “Das” is German.

[-] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 9 points 1 month ago

Coincidentally yes, Hagen is a place name and das means "the". In that combination it's absolute gibberish though and Häagen Dazs' founder probably had no idea about those meanings. He was trying to make it sound Danish. In his own words:

“The only country which saved the Jews during World War II was Denmark, so I put together a totally fictitious Danish name and had it registered,” Mattus told me. “Häagen-Dazs doesn’t mean anything. [But] it would attract attention, especially with the umlaut.” Source

[-] Nangijala@feddit.dk 3 points 1 month ago

Bruh, am I high or is that factually incorrect that we were the only country saving jews during ww2? I mean, my national ego would love for us to take credit for such a feat, but I feel like there were people in every country who tried to save the jews in one way or another. It was a collaborative effort, no? I especially feel like he did Poland dirty. Holy shit the effort some people went to in that country to protect and save Jewish lives. I mean fuck.

Homeboy literally made a chocolate brand and gave it a vaguely Danish name that sounds nothing like Danish because of a misperception about ww2. Peak ignorance.

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 month ago

Yea and completely failed at it 😅

[-] schnapsman@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

I'm certain OP meant Dutch.

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