When does Submitter plan to recognize the correct spelling of "letter"?

Well, *finally*...

We're all staring at you, Albania.

Swedish linguists have always viewed it as a lesser sibling of the letter 'V,' as the two letters are pronounced identically in Swedish.

Are they pronounced identically like a 'V' in English, a 'W', or one of those funny foreign sounds that doesn't transliterate well?

Let me hear you say "VHAT!"

But when will submitter recognize the importance of that second "T"...

When???

George W. Bush feels vindicated. Someone has finally recognized him.

We could have just given 'em ours.



/then again, our "W" isn't worth much...

ah, those swedes - they truly are the clowns of scandinavia..

/norwegian
//We've always loved that 'W'
///no, not that one.

I've got a buddy who recently came over from India, and he pronounces all his W's as V's. I don't want to sound like some sort of redneck... but it's pretty funny at times.

ZAZ
Are they pronounced identically like a 'V' in English, a 'W', or one of those funny foreign sounds that doesn't transliterate well?

It's the same in norweigian - V and W are pronounced identically when used in words, [v-eh], but differently when reading only the letter: [v-eh] for V and [dobbel-v-eh] for W. In other words: Dubya doesnt have its own unique phonetic sound.

Stil refuses to recognize all double leters, though.

Funy Swedes.

Sweden?

its only in the country name.

Good for "W". After all those long years of sponsoring episodes of Seasme Street. Advertising works!
/Can Pi be far behind?

MorningBreath: its only in the country name.

*stomps foot*

Get out of my head dammit!

I've got a buddy who recently came over from India, and he pronounces all his W's as V's.

I work with an Indian who sometimes blurs the two sounds.

Most swedes: "VTF?"

illy onka is o ed...

TF? hy ould anyone ant to do that?

Did he threaten them with nukes?

/is afraid to make a joke about the missing T, it might already be corrected..

ZAZ and hitchking

My boss is an Indian who pronounces his all his V's as W's.

I guess they make Indians in all three varieties.

It's time we put an end to these sick subhuman filth that don't recognise the letter 'W'.

Russians, oddly enough, rarely have problems with W's, which they don't have (although they have the sound) but sometimes pronounce V's as W's in English (think wodka), even though V is a common letter in Russian.

DarthBrooks.. who's the chick? more

/Useless without more "W chick" pix

kuli: It's the same in norweigian - V and W are pronounced identically when used in words, [v-eh], but differently when reading only the letter: [v-eh] for V and [dobbel-v-eh] for W



Haven't done French in a long time, but doesn't their 'W' gets pronounced as 'Double V' as well.

And I believe George W. Bush's double V is pronounced "Wanker".

/contemplating name change

North_Central_Positronics

wanaa recheck your post and try again?

/all
//being a dick today w/ good reason

and now i look like an idiot...serves me right

/wanna
//want to
///farking english

This thread is useless without Swedish Chef filter on.

So anyone want to explain why the fark we call it a "double-u" when it's clearly a "double-v" ??

MorningBreath

Sweden?

its only in the country name.

Only in the English version of it. :P

But I'm happy, this has bugged me since I was in first grade. Way back in the day, there were no distinction between 'v' and 'w', i.e. you could spell words with either and they'd have the same meaning. That's not the case anymore (due mostly to a heavy borrowing of English words).

SAvoodoo hits the p0wn goal!!

IIRC it was because U and V were originally the same letter V was U

Bacontastesgood: Blame the farking Romans?

/got nothin'
//yet
///skol

So Vally Valrus will finally be able to pronounce his own name?

Cvrses, filters!

Bah. Gimme the good days when U and V were the same letter, and if you needed to spell a vvord like vacvvm, you dovbled the letter like any edvcated man vvovld.

You mean Sveden

can someone enlighten me as to the extra letter "Svedish" has that the latin alphabet doesn't?

mrexcess: Bacontastesgood: Blame the farking Romans?


Actually, the Romans didn't know their arses from their elbows, hence a Roman V means 5.

Book of Revelations 13:16-18:
"He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name."

farkanonomous rex: If they have 29 letters counting W, then they've got more than one letter we dont.

/is one of them a schva?

GungFu: One...two...V...I mean three! Three!

farkanonomous rex

can someone enlighten me as to the extra letter "Svedish" has that the latin alphabet doesn't?

Extra letter? All letters are from the latin alphabet, but Swedish also has three extra letters which I can't write here since Fark filters them out. Umlauts.

According to Wikipedia, A-with-a-circle, A-with-two-dots, and O-with-two-dots are considered separate letters rather than accented letters.

That's nothing, just try to get your average manong to say "Phillipines".

but sometimes pronounce V's as W's in English (think wodka), even though V is a common letter in Russian.


And wessels. Don't forget about nuclear wessels.

Extra letters:



sort of like pronounced like the vowel sounds in 'ball', 'bear' and 'burn'.

But... but... Poland?