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linksradikaler kampfläufer@SnoopJ @Elizafox @Daveography a latin professor at uni once showed us this. vspph, vphdph, vphcph, as julius cesar famously said
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Slightly related: we see this in Arabic all the time. It mostly comes from the fact that the people making the tattoos can read the Arabic alphabet but don’t understand what it means, or how to join the letters.
The worst offenders are Arabic letters not joined up and written left to right 😅
Ari [APz] Sovijärvi@Sobtanian A Nordic favorite is also when letters like ä, ö, å are used in place of similarly looting letters to make it more cool.
Jagna@apzpins @Sobtanian yeah all the not-Nordic bands with names written like that because aesthetics 😆 if my bf says it looks cool I will usually start pronouncing the *aesthetic* letters as I would in Swedish in an otherwise Polish or English word
@ilookloud @apzpins I’m assuming the letters sound very different to what people think they do?
@Sobtanian At least in Finnish the ä and a are different letters, not accents, so replacing an ä with an a is just as legit as replacing an x with a k because they kinda sorta look alike.
But that one letter replacement will absolutely change the meaning of words. The classic example being "näin" = "I saw" and "nain" = "I married" or "I fucked" in casual language.
Now imagine telling you saw your all your friends this weekend and then drop the ä dots.