• Formfiller@lemmy.world
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    My son and I were backpacking and we found a nice spot and had a fire but the moths were out in force and suicide bombing this fire. We put it out because burning moths were jumping out and we were genuinely worried about kamakaze moths starting a forest fire. It was crazy

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      Weird to read these memes when you know what sound the letters represent. Ø sounds like the u in “turn”. Ä (or Æ) sounds like the a in “sad”. Lämp kind of works though

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      4 hours ago

      Swedish, no?

      Or do they use Ö instead of Ø? I noticed Ä tends to replace the Æ in other Skandinavisk languages. I’m guessing Ü replaces Å? (I’ve never studied Swedish)

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        Swedish uses Ö + Ä. The rest of us use Ø + Æ. Both alphabets use Å, but that’s a separate letter. Ü isn’t used in scandinavian languages (Only language I know that uses it is German)

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          Good to know, thanks. Yeah, kamelüsü wouldn’t sound right now that you mention it. But brör sounds the same as brør, and skändes sounds the same as skændes.

          Again, I’ve never studied Swedish. I’m just basing this off the pronunciations in German and Danish, which I know aren’t perfect analogues, but it seems to generally make sense

  • SomeLemmyUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Isnt the sun the actual lamp and all others the forbidden ones? Like they try to orient at the sun when wanting to rise higher, that’s why they get caught by artificial light no?

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      My understanding is that light directly above is their method of determining how to stay upright, so artificial lights cause them to think up is towards the light, so attempting to go in a straight line puts them in orbit around it.

      They aren’t trying to go towards the light at all. They’re attempting to go perpendicular to the light.

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        Imagine that level of extreme vertigo where the ground completely changes based on your angle to the nearest lämp and you’re just falling over and rolling around. I feel bad for the moths now it sounds like torture

        :(