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It feels wrong (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (4 children)

In Dutch it’s whey-whey-whey.

I still remember when companies started mentioning their websites in commercials.
It was one big torrent of whey-whey-wheys.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Same in Russian - it's something like "wehwehweh"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Same in German.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Well, In German it's also grammatically correct

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Close to whe in when.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

So the solution is very simple: everyone should become dutch

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In Italian it's "vuvuvu", ez

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

that's my 6th favourite thing about Italy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I speak Dutch but (we, in this region) don't pronounce the y sound at the end.