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bogkeep · 1 year ago

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ok this is 100% an inconsequencial pet peeve this is not an indicator of the downfall of civilization. i could avoid a lot of annoyance by not listening to podcasts or essays that discuss the movie midsommar. and i will never judge anyone for saying swedish words wrong. i live in sweden and don't even Try. it would be largely hypocritical of me to demand perfect swedish pronounciation of people who do not speak the language.

but oh my GOD every time i hear people pronounce midsommar like midsomaaaahr i lose it a little. maybe i missed a memo. maybe it's a quirk of the swedish language i've been unaware of. maybe they pronounce it that way in the movie? i am never going to watch it. maybe im wrong. maybe it is pronounced that way. i thought it's pronounced almost exactly as the word midsummer in english with a slight difference in the vowels. because the swedish language is fairly similar to english in many ways. i don't think you need to drag the A out. it's a short A. i don't think swedish grammar is so different from norwegian grammar that it would be dragged out. am i losing my mind?

#again i have not and cannot watch this movie because im allergic to gore and horror #but i find the concept of it so so fascinating and interesting #a horror movie making swedish culture scary? actually kinda genius #oOOOoOoooOOO WHICH FOREIGN CULTURE SHALL WE MAKE CREEPY TODAY.... what about uhhhhhhhhhhhhh sweden #that's a rich text in and of itself #anyway he's not kidding about those runestones. on the little sweden roadtrip i did with my mom -#every now and then we'd see a sign to some viking runestone and sure enough. in the middle of some farmlands with nothing else of interest #runestone with sheep grazing around it #norway also celebrates midsommer but they call it sankthans - word that comes from st john the baptist #there's big bonfires and shit. it's clearly a pagan tradition but under a christian guise. just like yule/christmas #ANYWAY never thought i'd find someone speaking swedish like a healing balm upon my ears. that's a first and maybe last #idk why the midsomaahr pronounciation bothers me so much. i dont need people to pronounce it correctly #but at this point id just wish people just pronounced it in english instead of trying to say it in Swedish But Badly And Wrong?#i know i could ask literally anyone at school about how they pronounce midsommar but instead i tried to find it on youtube #and one of the videos literally tells people to say it the Bad Way. IS THAT THE CULPRIT?#also found some old swedish radio clip. actually interesting that swedes drop the D in midsommar a lot #Youtube

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