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I tried searching a Swedish surname site Interesting site (there's 10 people with my name)! There seem to be 183 113 people with my last name. Which confirms my impression that it's far far too common. I need to come up with a new one. So what's your favourite colour? Some kind of bluish green, I t...

Qwynegold wrote:

linguoboy wrote:I tried searching a Swedish surname site

Interesting site (there's 10 people with my name)!

There seem to be 183 113 people with my last name. Which confirms my impression that it's far far too common. I need to come up with a new one.

Done and sent!

Damn I had to look up a lot of words. It's not even been a year since I finished my six months of formal Spanish studies. I think I need to start studying again!

I can't think of any in Swedish or Finnish, but in Finnish there's a given name, Sini, though. Sininen means blue. So it's only half blue? Something like "bl...." :) But no, I have to agree with you. Apart from a Norwegian friend of mine called Scarlet, I don't believe I have ever heard a color-der...

Simmalti wrote:You'll probably get it much before. Astraios will be back on the 10th, and since I'm leaving on the 12th (and assuming he sends it to me on time ), I will probably get it done by the 11th.

Ah, no problem then!

Thank you!

I just hope I have managed to get my computer shipped to Ireland by the 25th. Otherwise I'll just have to find another way to do it. My phone should probably do the trick...

Lyhoko Leaci wrote:I could try to fit you in somewhere...

If it's too much of a hassle, you needn't bother. It's my fault I missed it, after all. But if you could, that would certainly be very nice of you.

Swedish, English, Spanish and Japanese is what I can do, probably in that order of fluency today.

And I miss yet another one! This is getting ridiculous!

I think I need an e-butler that can let me know whenever one of these threads get started.

A few thoughts of mine..... The sacnicap, is it a general meeting of all commoners, just the richest ones, the most prominent ones, or of certain electors chosen by the castes? It seems to me that a general assembly of every member of the castes would be very hard to manage, no matter the technologi...

You have my agreement as well. Not that I am in the game. This time.

To me, "klädkammare" is something you can walk into, "garderob" is not. I don't hear the former much either, mostly because most people I know don't have one. :wink: Exactly! Garderob is a piece of furniture while klädkammare is a room. Yeah.... except not really. ;) In theory I agree with you, it ...

The flapping is variable in brE, anyway... it does exist but it's not the primary variant or something. I think you're just going to have to take people at their word when they say [d]... Oh, I forgot about non-NAE-speakers there, actually. But yeah, I have my doubts about [di(ː)] showing up there ...

In Sweden, you start learning English the day you begin school. Later on you can choose to learn either, Spanish, French or German That makes me feel old - I didn't get to start until fourth grade. That was... 1994. A few years later as I recall it changed to third grade. I think it varies from one...

What's the text about, this time around?


No, wait, don't answer that! Looking forward to seeing the results!

Guitarplayer wrote:It's /wɪkiˈpiːdiə/ for me, in English, but indeed with vowel hiatus.

On closer analysis, yeah, the same applies for me. It's definitely /wɪkiˈpiːdiə/. Thanks for pointing it out, Travis B.

Here's my non-native English and standard Swedish (I hope ;)) A1: Bedroom / Sovrum A2: Laundry room / Tvättstuga A3: Kitchen / Kök A4: Living room / Vardagsrum A5: Dining room / Matsal (if used frequently) or Finrum (if only used for formal dining) A6: Sitting room / Vardagsrum A7: Foyer / Hall A8: ...

I think I pronounce it /wɪkɪ'pi:dɪə/ in English, /wɪkɪ'pe:dja/ in Swedish. Yeah, I retain the /w/. So sue me.

Zhen Lin wrote:in Latin, we have the sequence gn for /Nn/

Swedish has the same sequence, which makes me wonder if it's a feature inherited from Latin loanwords.

I leave the board for one month..... And in that time the last PGT ends, the results are posted and discussed, someone suggests a new one, which is then organized and set into motion. All in one month's time. Bah. I clearly need to check in more often!

Peacekeeper somehow brings the guy not only to his own room but to "his companion's" room as well. Not my fault! :P This was already present in Qwynegold's Japanese. Except that I mistranslated "先方の" ("their") as "companion's". Things become melodramatic when Åge Kruger writes "høyde hun brøstet si...

Those clauses were weird enough when I got the text. I can only imagine what they might look like now.

A chance for Team World Tour to catch up then! Go team, go!

Legion wrote:We don't need any of that because we're civilized human persons, not barbaric animals.

But I like the "Like"-button...

For some reason, I suddenly find the lack of a Facebookesque "Like"-button on these forums very limiting.