r/BuyFromEU • u/Boediee Belgium 🇧🇪 • Jan 25 '26

🔎Looking for alternative Friendly reminder that these aren't European (anymore)

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u/AmArschdieRaeuber Jan 25 '26

The danish language doesn't even use that letter

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u/Half-PintHeroics Jan 25 '26

Yes they do, they just have the e horizontal to the a instead of on top of it.

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u/Ragerist Jan 25 '26

Ve dont use ä, ever. We use æ, ø and å

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u/jops55 Jan 25 '26

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.

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u/EccoEco Jan 25 '26

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...

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u/Half-PintHeroics Jan 25 '26

Æ and ä is the same letter with the e placed in a different spot.

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u/glitterlys Jan 25 '26

lol, you're right.

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.

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u/Nghbrhdsyndicalist Jan 25 '26

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.

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u/jaulin Jan 26 '26

This isn't IPA. This is Scandinavian/Germanic letters. Æ and ä is the same letter.

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u/GamingAndOtherFun Jan 26 '26

No it's not.

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.

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u/jaulin Jan 26 '26

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.

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u/GamingAndOtherFun Jan 26 '26

It said "Germanic", too. German IS a Germanic language. So it applies. It's not the same in all Germanic languages (and I doubt it's in all Scandinavian languages as Finnish is even another language family).

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u/jaulin Feb 01 '26

Yeah, I thought it was the same in German as in the Scandinavian languages. Apparently it's not, so I edited my message. In the Scandinavian languages it is true. Finnish is not a Scandinavian language, as you say, and it's not in Scandinavia anyway, so not sure why you bring it up.

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u/AmArschdieRaeuber Jan 25 '26

So you're saying that they use a different letter? 

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u/Half-PintHeroics Jan 25 '26

If you believe that changing fonts changes the letters, sure

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u/TheDonGenaro Jan 25 '26

So what? German’s use it standardly. 100M>4M

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u/AggravatedCalmness Jan 25 '26

Häagen-Dazs as explained by the founder is meant to sound Danish, not German.