• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    The “øy” is written without a space between the letters, which seems to mean that these letters occur together in words (more obvious example: “eau” leads into French).

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      3 months ago

      The problem is that we can put words together to form new words. So say I produced a yogurt at a lake(sø) , I could call it søyougurt. It’s not a word that would be in a dictionary though, but lots of that kind of words aren’t.

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        3 months ago

        Maybe within one syllable then?

        I mean, I’m not looking to defend this diagram, I have no idea if it’s correct. And frankly I would be surprised if it is anything more than an approximation, since language is always messy.