Swedish is actually not all that difficult. There are a lot of
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Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
So, you claim to understand Swedish!?
A language no one understands and no one understands how the people who speak it, understand each other!
Is that the language, witches like you communicate with the devil?
One more proof of your guilt!
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
Ask the Danes or the Norskies if Swedish is really a language or just mindless gibber?So, you claim to understand Swedish!?
A language no one understands and no one understands how the people who speak it, understand each other!
Is that the language, witches like you communicate with the devil?
One more proof of your guilt!
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
Merriam Webster -
Definition of cognitive
1: of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering)
What, pray tell, could that have to do with Swedes??
I know of (but wouldn't claim to know much of) cognitive linguistics, and I believe it's quite influential in Swedish university depts of linguistics (e.g. Uppsala), but I must admit I've not come across 'cognitives' as parts of a language, in the way Barb's used the word - I'd love to be enlightened!
Okay, so I have a lot of issues with pushing buttons I shouldn’t, and with autocorrect on my iPhone. That was supposed to read “cognates”, not “cognitives”.
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
Perhaps someone was talking of cognates? Can we blame the iPhone spell check again?
AUTOCORRECT!!!
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
Cognates of other words in Swedish. It is an extremely self-referential language - kinda like linguistic navel-gazing
It is inbred to the point of unintelligibility.
English words. There are quite a few English words we have inherited from Scandinavian languages … e.g., knife from kniv, law from lag, etc.
Also from other Nordic languages. With good will Nordics can speak “Scandinavian” and understand one another … sometimes
Oh yes, that's home territory for me. My only problem is, having some knowledge of Old Norse, when I go to Iceland, I can challenge anyone I meet to a duel, but have to think hard how to ask the way to the bathroom
badrum in Swedish … another cognate. But, ja, those Icelanders can be that way.Oh yes, that's home territory for me. My only problem is, having some knowledge of Old Norse, when I go to Iceland, I can challenge anyone I meet to a duel, but have to think hard how to ask the way to the bathroom
M
montycrusto
Guest
What if you challenge someone to a duel on the way to the bathroom?
Always the smart ass, aren’t you?What if you challenge someone to a duel on the way to the bathroom?
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Autocorrect! Again, the work of the devil! Incriminating evidence becomes overwhelming!AUTOCORRECT!!!
Autocorrect! Again, the work of the devil! Incriminating evidence becomes overwhelming!
ledoux
Governor
All right! All right! Let's keep our eye on the ball here. The real topic is:
1) I agreed to:
Produce an illustrated song from a language passed down from the Vikings and thus comprised mostly of grunts, curses, and screams with a sparse sprinkling of intelligible words.
2) You, on the other hand, would merely have to agree to:
Sit down.
1) I agreed to:
Produce an illustrated song from a language passed down from the Vikings and thus comprised mostly of grunts, curses, and screams with a sparse sprinkling of intelligible words.
2) You, on the other hand, would merely have to agree to:
Sit down.
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