• Rothe@piefed.social
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    vaguely Danish sounding name

    And creating something that doesn’t have the slightest resemblance to Danish, even using a letter “ä” which isn’t in the Danish alphabet.

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          Except that the video was done by NRK - Norwegian national TV. All the Nordic countries can be brutal at heckling each other - all in good fun.

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            Swede. Norwegian. Potato. Potato.

            They’re just mad because we used to own their asses and had a flag so awesome they got jelly and copied our design.

            Denmark superior country. 👏 and don’t kid yourself into thinking we are compensating because our nature is flat chested af and 60% is spent on growing pig food instead of protecting wildlife. And we are totally not ass mad that there is no tone or life in our language that more so resemble throat cancer than song when we speak. DENMARK COOL. DENMARK AWESOME. Sweden lame. Norway gay. DENMARK DENMARK DENMARK.

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        Very little resemblance to German either. Words with “äa” aren’t a thing, neither are words that end in “zs”.

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          Not the spelling yes, but both “Hagen” and “Das” is German.

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            Coincidentally yes, Hagen is a place name and das means “the”. In that combination it’s absolute gibberish though and Häagen Dazs’ founder probably had no idea about those meanings. He was trying to make it sound Danish. In his own words:

            “The only country which saved the Jews during World War II was Denmark, so I put together a totally fictitious Danish name and had it registered,” Mattus told me. “Häagen-Dazs doesn’t mean anything. [But] it would attract attention, especially with the umlaut.” Source