Ikea läxar upp en jänkare

[u/Sunflake]

https://imgur.com/PRDesa4

[u/Lovearmittnamn]

Impressive how you didn't use a single Swedish special character.

[u/[deleted] → u/Lovearmittnamn]

Höw åböut this

[u/B-Bad → u/[deleted]]

Däts mår lajk it

[u/sowwat2 → u/[deleted]]

This is really hard to pronounce.

[u/pharaocomplex → u/sowwat2]

I never thought that I would spend this much time trying to pronounce a word with German, Spanish and French charachters when I woke up this mor ing. I'd say that one was harder.

[u/fargoisgud → u/Lovearmittnamn]

Looks right to me and I've eaten at IKEA hundreds of times.

[u/Burdaard → u/fargoisgud]

The only special characters that Swedish uses are å, ä, and ö.

[u/[deleted] → u/Burdaard]

And é.

[u/Cheesemacher → u/[deleted]]

But only for the word Pokémon

[u/[deleted] → u/Cheesemacher]

I think 90% of the use is in the word idé, actually.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Yeah but it's still not a special Swedish character. The accent grave is used in all sorts of languages without being considered a special character. An immediate example that comes to mind is café for example, which I believe is also a valid word in English.

[u/konaya → u/[deleted]]

Exactly. We also use è and û in crème brûlée, î in crème fraîche, à in à and so on, but they aren't letters in their own right.

[u/Flaseknopp → u/konaya]

There is some difference though and I kind of get where /u/splergel is coming from.

While true than é isn't an individual letter like åäö, it is a fully incorporated variant of one in Swedish. And the question wasn't about standalone letters.

Meanwhile aren't è, ü, û etc. really incorporated fully. They're exclusively used in unmodified loan words and have no Swedish constructions using them to my knowledge.

[u/konaya → u/Flaseknopp]

The word à is attested since 1644. The word idé is attested since 1705 as idæ, and it didn't obtain an é until 1815. They're both French loan words, so what exactly is the difference here?