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It made me wonder about language. Whatever language you might speak, do you have to use common sense when you listen to someone to understand what they are saying or do you have specific words for each thing?I speak German but...guys...Scandinavian languages are really light years away..they are a group on their own...
My mothertongue is a Romance language made of words with pretty univocal meanings...It made me wonder about language. Whatever language you might speak, do you have to use common sense when you listen to someone to understand what they are saying or do you have specific words for each thing?
What I mean might not make any sense. So ill try with an example.
In Danish we have a word like "is", not pronounced as in english. But it can mean two things. "Ice cream" or "Ice", so a person might ask me, if I should translate it into english:
Do you want ice? Which doesn't really make sense, but using common sense, I know the person is asking me: Do you want ice cream?
So was just wondering is that the same in other languages as well? or as an english speaking person would you say: Do you want ice cubes? or would you say: Do you want ice? and that would be more of a slang way of saying it?
Same in German: Eis = ice or ice cream depending on context.Do you want ice? Which doesn't really make sense, but using common sense, I know the person is asking me: Do you want ice cream?
So was just wondering is that the same in other languages as well? or as an english speaking person would you say: Do you want ice cubes? or would you say: Do you want ice? and that would be more of a slang way of saying it?
That man could teach me how to boil water.
Wonder who stole the word from who do you know?Same in German: Eis = ice or ice cream depending on context.
Well the easiest words in danish are these:I speak a few languages to varying degrees. A couple fluently, a few haltingly and in a few more i can order a meal.
The problem is i am a Lancashire lass with the accent to match, it can have strange results.
Never tried Danish though, i should, i have Danish friends and i guess its polite.
Yeah, there are are a few in Game of thrones that are danishJamie Lannister is Danish?
Well the easiest words in danish are these:
ø = Island
å = River
Does it get anymore simple?
Pronunciation?
As i said, im a brit, but i live in france. The 2 languages share over 40,000 words. (Once you understand this it becomes easy)
Words such as garage, table, action, visible are letter for letter the same and some are similar but with slight differences like salad/salade, hospital/hôpital, forest/forêt.
However the pronunciation differs tremendously and the fun begins
Never been to good at the pronunciation thing
But you go to google translate and copy/paste the letters and choose danish then you can hear how to say them.
https://translate.google.com/?hl=da
We have 3 "special" letters, which are old Norse ones.
æ, ø , å
Actually quite a few english words comes from old Norse as well, due to us fooling around in England
Ahhh those were the daysBloody norsemen get everywhere.
I tested it and it does a good enough job of saying it correctly.I sometimes use google translate, it really isnt good with pronunciation
Cool I could probably watch Vet Hard without the subtitles.Found this one, for anyone that want to learn some danish slangs .
As far as I know we all inherited it from ancient proto-germanic. There was some rune called Isaz. Though I doubt they had much ice cream back then.Wonder who stole the word from who do you know?