Talk:Hūsker Dū?

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The text says that macrons aren't used in any Scandinavian language. That's not entirely true. It is commonplace to use macrons over the letter u when writing by hand if you are born in the 50's or earlier, some people are even starting to use them today. This is done to be able to more clearly distinguish them from v's in handwriting. So the text inside the parentheses might need to be removed or changed. However, when talking about typed letters (ie. letters made by machine) then it is indeed true that macrons are not used in Scandinavia. Jonmagne 17:52, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

I feel like I should defend my change, but I don't know where. Is here appropriate?

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The text of the article can create confusion about the Scandinavian languages. I have written a "Notes" section to try to explain, but perhaps someone should write a better explanation. Meanwhile, here are the facts:

• "Husker du?" (with normal "u"'s, not "ü"'s) is Norwegian, not Swedish, and means "Do you remember?". Swedish would be "minns du?" or "kommer du ihåg?".
• "Hüsker dü?" doesn't mean anything in any language. In fact, no Scandinavian language uses "ü", they use "y" instead.

Husker du? is also Danish and not only Norwegian ;) Danish and Norwegian also have a version similar to the Swedish "minns du?" (Danish: mindes du?) and a version of "kommer du ihåg?" (Danish: Kommer du ihu?) - just to be pedantic ;) 80.167.218.195 07:57, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

I'm removing the umlauts. The only spelling that should have those umlauts is that of the band. --Thorns Among Our Leaves 04:15, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Oh, silly me. They were macrons. -idiot.- Nevermind. --Thorns Among Our Leaves 04:18, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I believe this game has been overtaken in popularity by the very similar game "Memory."

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Why isn't this simply Hūsker Dū? ? - JasonAQuest (talk) 02:04, 29 November 2007 (UTC)