Well my curious friend, Hagen Das, is an American ice cream created by a Brooklyn guy and having a fake Danish name to increase marketability...
Capish?
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Capish?
Don't know it; and the name must be Swedish given the ä.It's a delicious ice creme company.
What on Earth are you talking about? That's bollocks.
He failed then, since that isn't even remotely Danish. It's actually really foreign looking with the zs in Dazs.
It really shouldn't be a surprise it's a butchered name wagon, we have a ton of restaurants here in basic French that sound fancy despite them translating to "the good bread" and "the chicken", or even "tasty fish".
Smorgasbord is about the extent of my Swedish. Is that Swedish? I don't even know.
Wheels, buddy, what did he fail at exactly?
Giving his ice cream a correct name, or positioning his product as a premium "European "brand ?
He is in the buissnes of selling icecream, and if a name sells more of it I would say that he succeded...
Butchered would be expected yes. But this doesn't make any sense at all. Except that it, when you wrote it as Haagen Das, sounded a bit like "håg æ das" which is Jutlandic for "nick a loo". Häagen Dazs is just meaningless. In fact I would say that the äa combination looks more Finno Ugric than Scandi. @Health
You are missing some special letters, but yes it is a Swedish word. The concept is Scandinavian though (IIRC it actually originates from Denmark). Anyway it is called smørrebrød here and abroad the Danish variant is generally considered the best---hence why I don't get why the Swedish name stuck in English.
Also there actually are smørebrød stores (run by Danes of course) all over North America---e.g. one on Fifth Avenue in NY.
He tried to give it a Danish sounding name; he utterly failed at that. And it doesn't really sound like European premium either. Now the icecream might be good, and that indeed is the most important, but name wise it isn't anything spectacular and he failed in his naming goals.
Maybe Finnish, but not Estonian. That looks weird even to me. I'm not quite certain how one would pronounce that combination. I can do Jääär, but trying to combine äa/õo/öo/üu seems unnatural.
To anyone that never heard of it: It's shitty, highly overpriced ice cream for basic bitches.
Äa is easy to pronounce (and so is öo and üu; doesn't mean that it makes any more sense though or looks natural. The zs in Dazs on the other hand is a pronunciation exercise, since that isn't trivial.
Ghost colours please. Also, wanna be a sub? With 40 players we'll probably need some.
Votecount incoming.
The Häa is usually pronounced "Ha" and the Dasz is pretty much a silent z, so pronouncing it is just Das. I'm almost positive it's not actually correct pronunciation in any Scandinavian languages.
A count of votes, 4 hours 40 minutes to deadline
Rovsea - 3 - Rovsea, F72Voyager, DragonofAtlantis
Audren - 1 - DutchGuy
Gen Marshall - 1 - Gen Marshall
THE_SPLIT - 1 - Hax
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Rovsea - 3 - Rovsea, F72Voyager, DragonofAtlantis
Audren - 1 - DutchGuy
Gen Marshall - 1 - Gen Marshall
THE_SPLIT - 1 - Hax
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Fuck shamevotes, if they would change anything they wouldn't be allowed. I'm abstaining.
It's misogynistic because it doesn't allow the neutral version of pussy but it does allow penis, yes. And racist because it only bans English, specifically American, swears. I don't consider it racist because it allows honky and chink because I don't consider honky and chink swears. I don't consider them swears because I'm pretty sure the only time I've heard one of them used is when a Chinese friend called himself a chink as a joke about racism.