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[-] Nangijala@feddit.dk 4 points 1 month ago

Bitch please:

Skildvagtslymfeknudeundersøgelse

Welcome to Danish.

[-] zerofk@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Fascinating- I don’t speak Danish but I can _almost_read that. Enough to assume it has to do with thyroids and lymph nodes.

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

It is a medical word for getting tested for breast cancer. I didn't bring it up because it is a difficult word to understand, but because it is difficult to pronounce correctly without stumbling over it. Yacht is not difficult in any way since our word for yacht is also yacht and because the spellings and sounds are pretty common in for example German, which is another language we are being taught from an early age.

Of course, all languages and their difficulties are relative depending on where in the world you live, but if you're European, especially western European, then it is pretty silly to be impressed that people can pronounce yacht.

Having a long word like skildvagtslymfeknudeundersøgelse is a lot more tricky since it's a bit of a tongue twister to pronounce and if you aren't well versed in Danish, you will also not know when or how to pronounce each letter, as several of them have different sounds or no sounds at all at different places in the word. That is why I brought it up.

[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän. Actual word for an actual job that existed until 1991. Welcome to German.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

eh people always point to German but they just use compound words more often. if you know the parts that make up the word it shouldn't be hard to parse.

[-] Allemaniac@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

that makes german easier than most other languages, for example french, where they just invent new sounds to fuck with foreigners and use a new or loanword for any complex situation, instead of just compounding the information

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

German is wild! I never managed to get I to stick.

[-] Karl@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago
[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Skipper for steamship companies on the Danube.

[-] camelbeard@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Hottentottententententoonstelling in Dutch. It means hottentot tent exhibition

[-] Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

Elektriciteitsproductiemaatschappij or basically electricity producing company.

[-] Doxin@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago

I prefer "angstschreeuw" as word to annoy foreigners with. 7 consonants in a row!

[-] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

I mean, 'sch' is basically one consonant

[-] sulgoth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I mean I have no idea what that means but I bet it breaks down into something resembling a good descriptor. English causes issues with four letter words with two O's in the middle.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago

"Sentinel lymph node examination." Probably not a word that comes up much day-to-day.

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

Nope, but it does come up if you get tested for breast cancer.

Point is, that yacht isn't a difficult word at all. Especially not if you're European, since the word for yacht in many European languages is... yacht.

[-] shneancy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

true, but most European languages will pronounce it "ya-cht" and not... "yot"

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