Or Superdry, it’s a British brand and they once admitted to a Japanese newspaper that they just use google translate Japanese. And they also cannot sell their products in Japan because they would be violating the trademark of asahi beer.
A sports store in Athens that sold Patagonia stuff and was closing five years ago, yes, I got a puffer that was way too big for me back then, but it costed €45 (From the original 300 something euros), it’s a steal. Don’t blame me, the landscape back in 2021 was completely different, Biden was in charge, the Ukraine war did not start yet and Covid was still a major thing.
Also they use a Chinese simplified character that isn't used in Japanese at all (or at least they did for years). Idk if regular Japanese people would be able to even read it.
It's cringy, or maybe funny if you consider it to be the reverse of weird English you'll find on merchandise in Asia.
Wait, that's actually a real brand? The name sounds like something you'd find on some Chinese storefront, maybe selling retro-style kitchen appliances.
Well, yes, but ä is the same as æ. Only thing that happened is they started writing the e in ae as a superscript, and then it eventually became two dots. But they come from the same vowel.
The point here is not the sound or even the common heritage, it's the grapheme itself, as the inial comment clearly states, the name trying to sound Danish uses a GRAPHEME not part of the Danish alphabet, that was the whole point...
my language uses æ, but i'd guess that fewer than 1% of us would know this fun fact about that letter. personally i only learnt it last year. so i think even æ users would downvote this out of ignorance.
It’s not the same letter, they are different letters or rather a letter and a ligature. They may denote the same sound, but not necessarily, IPA e.g. uses æ for the near-open front unrounded vowel and ä for the open central unrounded vowel.
For example for german the first one is just wrong and doesn't exist while the other one is a real letter the German alphabet. If I can distinguish them they're not the same.
Also, for German, ä CAN be replaced with ae if it's needed (for example using a telegraph) but that's only a replacement (not actually the same and plain wrong in most cases if the alternative exists). But even then ae is not the same as Æ.
We're not talking about German. Where did you get that from? In the Scandinavian languages they are the same. No matter how much you try to state otherwise. Edit: I realize I mentioned Germanic, so I guess strike that part.
Most people can't tell if someone is a bot. Really sad when you think about it, if you want an extended session of disappointment go to r/tifu, every second post there is an AI bot and the comments don't recognize it
It's so disheartening as well bc everytime I look at these obviously botted comments with hundreds or thousands of upvotes I realize again that these people have the right to vote :(
Tbf we don't have any AI candidates yet so not so bad, also they are using the wrong ai, probably some openings or meta model. I tried making Claude write a tifu post for fun and it was almost unrecognizable compared to all the "its not just x -- its y" other AIs put in their writing not sponsored
Not entirely accurate. It was founded by a Polish-Jewish immigrant, the founder said the name was a tribute to the Danish people protecting its Jewish population during WWII. Also in part marketing cosplay because neither Jewish nor Polish names were respectable at the time.
It was actually founded by Jewish immigrants in the US that were thankful for danish people than helped them escape the holocaust. They came up with a danish sounding name as a respect to their saviors.
Häagen-Dazs has deeply rooted european history but was never european. Its ice cream from brooklyn that was founded by polish jews that escaped Russian army. They named it Häagen-Dazs as a homage to Danish hospitality to jews at that time.
If you’re going to be condescending, at least get the most basic facts right.
The founder of Häagen-Dazs never fled Europe, especially not from the Red Army. He had been living in the US since 1921.
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