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i want to start a trend of writing european place names like american films do:
People might learn something, because I have no clue what SN, PACA or BD means. You'd need an extra part for the small villages to make it work though: Some place, XYZ (Country)
SN is Sachsen, PACA is Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
and BD is Norrbotten
And (country)?
Edit: i expect Sweden, but could be Finland, do not know if another language has å.
Luleå is in Sweden (on the coast, last real city when going North).
Å is shared between Swedish, Finnish Norwegian and Danish. It's ä/æ and ö/ø that differ, with Swedish/Finnish having ä/ö and Norwegian/Danish having æ/ø.
Å isn't really a native letter of finnish, it's only used in swedish loanwords.
Because Finnish isn't a Scandinavian language, but secretly a Uralic language, spying for Russia.
Most annoying thing about ‘å’. Danes adopted it as a replacement for the digraph ‘aa’, to distance themselves from Germans. And slapped it at the end of the alphabet. But later dropped its use, since they were habituated to ‘aa’ anyway. So now ‘Aarhus’, where ‘aa’ technically stands in for ‘å’, must be sorted at the end of a list, but ‘aardvark’ at the beginning.
In the middle of our street
Oh dear, the Danish. Can't really decide if they're coming or going, can they?
that should be evident
likewise ;)
such a great comment, call it out!
i was watching an american TV show, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and the plot has them go to Riga, i think it was. and in the dialogue, the chsracters say something along the lines of "we need to go to Riga, a town near Poland" i can't remember the specifics, but i felt incredibly patronised, especially when as you say, sometimes all you get is a couple of letters to know which US state we've travelled to, because of course we're in the US.
and to make matters worse, these are internagional spies, mercenaries and diplomats talking to each other. you knpw where Riga is!