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The "appearance" button seen on Dutch wikipedia is able to change the SIZE of the font (text) and the width of the article. This is extremely nice to have, but it's not there on any English article...

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[-] baduhai@sopuli.xyz 78 points 11 months ago

I don't know what the answer to your question is, but I love the way tekst is spelt.

[-] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 11 months ago

yea I guess it has a visual ring to it

[-] starman@programming.dev 7 points 11 months ago

Besides Dutch, tekst is a word used in Albanian, Danish, Estonian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Serbo-Croatian and Turkish

[-] nawa@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Also in all Cyrillic languages since those don't have an X letter and have to use ks (кс) instead

[-] Manzas@lemdro.id 2 points 11 months ago

Lithuanian has tekstas it is just two letters away from tekst .

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

And in Finnish we use "teksti"

SMS is "tekstiviesti"

[-] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago
[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

Breed groot pagina

[-] Thorry84@feddit.nl 2 points 11 months ago

Fun fact: in Dutch the word pagina is pronounced exactly the same as vagina

[-] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 11 months ago

Well, not exactly the same, but they rhyme, yes.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Pagina schmagina

[-] neidu2@feddit.nl 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Scandinavian languages also spell it like that, as it's closely related to Dutch without (much) french influence.

The only words I can remember that we spell with X as place names such as Texas and Mexico.

Edit: dutch, not german

[-] chellomere@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago
[-] neidu2@feddit.nl 2 points 11 months ago

Well, you swedes also eat Kex, if my memory serves me right. X seems a lot more common in swedish than noggie.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

We Finns use ks instead of x as well.

Alexander would be Aleksanteri and so forth.

I wanted to make a joke about the Swedes but then I googled it and there was a thorough Quora answer, so I'll link that instead.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-X-used-a-lot-in-Swedish-but-not-in-Norwegian-and-Danish

[-] baduhai@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I speak German, but in German it's spelt Text.

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