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It's that time of year again where the good folks of Gavle, Sweden build a gigantic goat and the bad folks of Gavle try to burn it down. For five decades, Gavle has built a Gavlebocken, a large scale Yule Goat made out of straw. For decades Santa will be putting coal in their stocking for trying to destroy the gigantic goat. In its 52nd year, technology and goat protection methods have improved including fireproofing and a live web cam. Only 15 out of 51 goats built were not destroyed in years past. Let's hope this one survives.
[The linked story has incorrect spelling of the name of the town in Sweden and goat — it should be Gävle and Gävlebocken, respectively. --martyb]
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Gävle, Sweden Gears Up to Defend their Goat
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Silverman's Law:
If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Wednesday December 26 2018, @11:07PM (5 children)
{Ø, Ö, Œ} are different ways of writing an O+E digraph. The first is traditional in Danish, so strictly speaking I should have used it, but when Danes write Danish on an English typewriter or PC and can't find it they quickly fall back to just typing 'oe' just as Swedes do when they can't find ö and the same as Frenchmen (and the occasional literate Englishman) does when œ is unavailable. I tend to use the ö because my fingers find if most quickly, if it was for a real formal setting I might have changed it in edit.
So anyway as I see it köpenhavn, køpenhavn, kœpenhavn, or even koepenhavn are exactly the same spelling. And that's the Danish spelling.
The Swedish spelling is actually köpenhamn, with an m instead of a v.
But since you mentioned it being crazy, yes, I actually do find that glyph a bit crazy and tend to avoid it. It's just too close to a 0.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Thursday December 27 2018, @01:07AM (4 children)
You missed to pick on the p vs b thing (which I'd best explain by Danish having quite the incomprehensible drawl to it, but maybe I'm just bitter about never having had an easy time understanding Danes).
(Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday December 27 2018, @01:28AM (3 children)
Yes, there's also an alternation between b and p and I completely overlooked it.
Mea culpa.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Thursday December 27 2018, @02:38AM (2 children)
Hmm... I'd say that places you Stockholm or further north :P
(Score: 2) by Arik on Saturday December 29 2018, @02:26AM (1 child)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Saturday December 29 2018, @03:05AM
045{4,6}, men det var, som sagt, då :)