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[โ€“] Rothe@piefed.social 66 points 2 days ago (2 children)

vaguely Danish sounding name

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

[โ€“] 0x0@infosec.pub 34 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

Kamelรฅsรฅ!

[โ€“] Nangijala@feddit.dk 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] mko@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] Nangijala@feddit.dk 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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. ๐Ÿ‘ 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.

[โ€“] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Itโ€™s pretty German. Nothing to do with Danish.

[โ€“] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] NachBarcelona@piefed.social 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Was fรผr ein prรคambelartiges Witzsegment von einem Kommentar.

[โ€“] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 9 points 2 days ago

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

[โ€“] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not the spelling yes, but both โ€œHagenโ€ and โ€œDasโ€ is German.

[โ€“] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

โ€œThe 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,โ€ Mattus told me. โ€œHรคagen-Dazs doesnโ€™t mean anything. [But] it would attract attention, especially with the umlaut.โ€ Source

[โ€“] Nangijala@feddit.dk 4 points 1 day 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.

[โ€“] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 3 points 2 days ago

Yea and completely failed at it ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] schnapsman@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

I'm certain OP meant Dutch.