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It just occurred to me that some or all of those "Rød"/"Røed" names in Norway could actually be from Old Norse ruð "clearing". There are some Norwegian place names ending in -rød, and I'm pretty sure they're not named after the color. There are also many place names (and therefore surnames) ending i...

It bugs me somewhat when than is called a preposition. The argument is typically that it's both a preposition and a conjunction. Under that interpretation it's a preposition in "She loves you more than him", and a conjunction in "She loves you more than he". Most English dictionaries have it listed...

the song didn't progress as much as I would liked it to have . This seems really awkward to me but as far as I know it isn't incorrect Just for clarification, you're suggesting that the have or 've that normally would've appeared between would and liked has moved to the end, right? I ask because "t...

This discussion reminds me of how paralinguistic use of pulmonic ingressive sounds, which most people probably think of as being a quirky thing found in a few languages, turns out to be quite common cross-linguistically: http://ingressivespeech.info/.

Norwegian: Sort/Sorte/Svart/Svarte ("Black"): 0+36+0+23 = 59 Hvit/Hvite/Kvit/Kvite ("White"): 0 Grønn/Grøn ("Green"): 295+81 = 376 Rød/Røed/Røde/Raud/Raude ("Red"): 1503+1934+32+5+8 = 3482 Blå ("Blue"): 7 Brun/Brune ("Brown"): 1010+122 = 1132 Gul/Gule ("Yellow"): 89+196 = 285 Lilla ("Purple"): 4 Ros...

I would conjecture that high-frequency phonemes are more likely to undergo phonemic splits, while low-frequency phonemes are more likely to undergo mergers.

/Stoja/ is how people usually pronounce it around here as well. Apparently we're more German than the Germans.

[ʋɪkɪˈpʰɛəðjɒ]

Åge Kruger wrote:Magnus, ha! That's another one of those silly, foreign names! It isn't even a real name, it's a misunderstanding. Hrmph, hrmph, hrmph.

>:(

Drydic Guy wrote:Fine. Now stop acting stupid. Because that's how you're coming across.

Just trying to lighten the mood in a thread full of needless anger and shouting. No offense meant.

Drydic Guy wrote:

Magb wrote:

Drydic Guy wrote:

Magb wrote:I'd describe T-V in Norwegian as slightly more common than "thou" in contemporary English.

Thou is not used at all in contemporary English. Not. At. All.

Indeed. And the T-V distinction in Norwegian is used slightly more often.

In other words it's barely used ever?

Thou art correct.

Drydic Guy wrote:

Magb wrote:I'd describe T-V in Norwegian as slightly more common than "thou" in contemporary English.

Thou is not used at all in contemporary English. Not. At. All.

Indeed. And the T-V distinction in Norwegian is used slightly more often.

I'd describe T-V in Norwegian as slightly more common than "thou" in contemporary English.

But I don't think Åge's has changed very much between Norwegian and Swedish Not much at all. He made a minor mistake (I think) in translating the Swedish "svår" ("difficult") to the Norwegian "svær" ("big"). I noticed since I (being Swedish) very nearly made the same mistake in reverse, which would...

- to my ears, <er> in Norwegian sounds like [{r] or even [ar], as do other occurrences of <e> before <r>, not [E:r]. Does that make sense? You're right. /e:/ becomes [æ:] before /r/ for most Norwegians, except in inflected forms like ser "sees", where it remains [e:] or [E:] or whatever. This chang...

1. Where were you born? Porsgrunn, Norway 2. What is your native language? Norwegian 3. What other languages besides English and your native language do you know? None well enough to mention 4. How old are you? 24 5. How old were you when you first began to study English? "Study" would be when I was...

Added them... From what I can find, heita is not preaspirated..? Right. In Icelandic, <pp tt kk kkj> (edit: and other clusters with /p t k c/, e.g. <epli> "apple" = [ɛʰplɪ]) are preaspirated. In Faroese, some speakers apparently also preaspirate all plosives following low back vowels, e.g <láta> = ...

I have to admit that I'm a bit biased by being a native speaker of a Northern Germanic language, so I don't really think about whether which consonants are aspirated and which are not, and I guess I can't always tell, either... Do you think it's okay to leave such details out? Well, it depends on h...

I've caught myself preaspirating plosives when speaking both Norwegian and English after I started toying around with some Icelandic. It makes so much sense! Many Scandinavian dialects do normally preaspirate voiceless plosives in certain conditions. I noticed Jens Stoltenberg was doing it heavily ...

Nice job! A few comments: Icelandic: <nafn> [navn] It's actually [napn̥]. Icelandic has a shift that goes: v > p / {n,l} Danish: <navnet mit er Elsa> [ˈnaunəð mɪd̥ ˈæɐ ˈelsa] Just a small slip-up here. As you said yourself, Danish doesn't allow postposed possessive pronouns (say that 10 times quickl...

That's the scary part about spending a lot of time with languages closely related to your own. I've found myself accidentally using Icelandic words or constructions (I'm Swedish) such as 'snemma' ('early') and 'eins ... og' ('as ... as'), only to be faced with a blank expression by the one to whom ...

Nortaneous wrote:Me: "No, she doesn't do crack. She does cocaine, and she has done crack."
My roommate: "She does crack. You don't done crack. You do crack."

Further proof that English can make verbs out of anything, including other verbs.

Swedish å, ä and ö are usually just written a, a and o when they're not available. Some people use aa, ae and oe, but that's much harder to read. That's interesting, since Norwegians use <aa ae oe> more often than not, in my experience. I'm not so sure. It may well vary from medium to medium, but d...

Fake strong verbs in English is an endless source of amusement to me. I thought of a good one today: imbibe - imbobe - imbibben.

Ulrike Meinhof wrote:Swedish å, ä and ö are usually just written a, a and o when they're not available. Some people use aa, ae and oe, but that's much harder to read.

That's interesting, since Norwegians use <aa ae oe> more often than not, in my experience.