This Is Really Interesting.

This is really interesting.

English has 711,378 words (according to wikipedia)

That's a LOT.

Compared to that, Danish has about 200,000 words (according to same wikipedia article)

The biggest difference between English and Danish is that Danish has a lot reused words. They are more like puzzle pieces.

So for example a word like "memoir" is "erindringsbog" in Danish (directly translated to "memory-book") You meet the same words all the time. That makes it easier and harder to understand the language.

If you wanna talk about complicated languages, Danish is one of them!

Does that mean I am smarter than a native English speaker? Would be cool if that was all it took :)

I often struggle with English. I do not write in the language on the internet, because it's "easy". I do it, because then I can communicate with people. Which is the whole purpose of languages.

This was so interesting I love yuval

I forgårs

they should have a word called Presterday which means the day before yesterday .

It's a slippery slope

Crafting iceberg

How many (mostly fiber) crafts can you do?

Note: The chart isn't ranked by difficulty. The order is how many people can do it / got first introduced to (imo of course).

For simplification I put only headlines (embroidery= satin stich, cross stich etc) there.

One thing I'm getting kind of tired of seeing in Fandom discourses is the "Just talk it out guys!" Yes, the Miscommunication trope is fucking annoying, but there is a point, where it's not a trope. There are points, where it's actually incredebly realistic.

People do have miscommunications in real life.

People don't constantly explain thouroughly every single word they're saying and what they mean. People don't know that the reciever of their words misunderstands their meaning. Often people themselves don't even know why they're reacting the way they are.

So when you have a character like Crowley from Good Omens, who misunderstands the "Nothing lasts forever" from Aziraphale or Edward from Our Flag Means Death, who keeps messing up in his love life, they CAN'T just "talk it out" - because they don't know what to say. Ed doesn't know himself properly enough, to be able to articulate his emotions. Crowley THINKS he knows what Aziraphale was trying to say, but he actually misunderstands it.

They can't just solve it by talking. Because they don't know what words they should say.