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ErikCorry
32 days ago
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How does IKEA come up with names for its products?
Could also be Vietnamese, they are big on diacritics.
xigoi
32 days ago
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Vietnamese can easily be recognized because most words are one syllable and the vowel may even have two diacritics stacked on top.
decimalenough
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Thanks to French, who came up with the current writing system.
DonaldFisk
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A Portuguese Jesuit, actually:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_de_Pina
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