• MNByChoice@midwest.social
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    5 days ago

    There are a few northern Germanic languages that are deceptive to English readers. They almost read correctly in English, if one assumes the speaker is drunk. Sadly, they can also give the wrong impression. The spoken version tends to be harder to handle in this way.

    Clearly, there must be a name for languages that share this sort of property.