CAVOK@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 4 days agoWhy is there no word for please in the Nordic languages?www.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square34linkfedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down110
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minus-squareFleppensteyn@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 days agoDictionaries may be wrong but there are example sentences of their words for please: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vennligst https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/snälla#Swedish “I’ve never heard of anyone sending a physical thank you card after a job interview or something similar,” she said Is that a thing? I’ve never heard of that neither.
minus-squareCrimeIsLegalNow@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·3 days agoBoomers did all kinds of bootlicking shit and then shit posted about handshakes for seventy years.
Dictionaries may be wrong but there are example sentences of their words for please:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vennligst https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/snälla#Swedish
Is that a thing? I’ve never heard of that neither.
Boomers did all kinds of bootlicking shit and then shit posted about handshakes for seventy years.