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01-16-2004, 07:26 AM | #822 |
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K, thanks a lot for those links. Swahili interjections are fun! Kweli!
*Continues to click* This is the link to a great Catalan site. It's a fantastic site, but I have no time to study Catalan now. Maybe someone else may be interested. Oh, by the way, Happy Moot Anniversary Lalaith! Och du också, Jon, snart. Last edited by Linaewen : 01-16-2004 at 09:11 AM. |
01-16-2004, 11:53 AM | #823 | |
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01-16-2004, 12:00 PM | #824 | |
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Ruinel, on the other hand, is from Texas - which is in the south. In our Civil War, "Yankee" referred to the northerners. They still haven't forgiven us... PLUS, "Texans" are a whole 'nuther kind of folk! Personally, I don't mind 'Yankee' so much... just so you SMILE when you say that! (Owen Wister: The Virginian) Of course, I CAN'T STAND the NY Yankees baseball team!!! |
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01-16-2004, 12:13 PM | #825 | |
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BTW... what is "torsk" and "nisse"? NÃ*s in Quenya is woman, and nissi is Quenya for women. |
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01-16-2004, 12:20 PM | #826 | |
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nisse-small elf (from Norwegian folklore, they were small bearded people who took care of peoples' animals and barns if one treated them nice and gave them porridge each Christmas)
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01-16-2004, 12:26 PM | #827 |
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I think one of the main reasons 'Yankee' is used by foreigners as a term to describe Americans is because of the vast amount of products available worldwide, carrying the American flag while bearing the name 'Yankee'.....Yankee burgers, yankee fish, yankee this, yankee that. It's not an attempt to be derogoratary towards Americans, merely a result of extensive marketing of the name worldwide...obviously when coupled with the image of the Star Spangled Banner it creates a mental image that the two concepts would necessarily tie in with each other, after all if a product made by Americans and promoted by Americans then surely it would be acceptable to call them by that name (I'm not saying it's allright to do so, just that that's the idea being created). I think it also goes along with all the movies we've seen where the Yankees baseball team is hailed as the best ever etc.... in a way baseball = yankees, but baseball = America, thus America = Yankees.
Lin, dis 'n plesier (die aansluitings), ek hoop jy sal dit van nut vind. Ek het ook 'n ander een gevind wat jou mooi sal help met die vraag wat jy gevra het oor die Afrikaanse uitroepe, maar ke het ongelukkig vergeet om die webtuiste se adres the hou, so ek sal eers weer moet gaan soek. |
01-16-2004, 12:46 PM | #828 | |
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01-16-2004, 01:18 PM | #829 | ||
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Alternatives for 'idiot' are: treskalle - suppehue - suppegjøk - dumming - tulling - gjøk - hønsehjerne - sau - tomsing - gullfiskhjerne etc. Pick whatever you like.
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Do you really want to know about that sad chapter? Let me see if I get all the spanish tenses. Presente Preterito Perfecto Indefinido Imperfecto Pluscuamperfecto Futuro Futuro II Condicional Subjuntivo Perfecto de Subjuntivo Imperfecto de Subjuntivo Gerundio Voz Pasiva (is that really a tense?) Near Future Participle Past (don't know the spanish name) Yah, that's the list of tenses I should be able to form. Hahaha. Do you want me to explain them all? And even translate them?
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01-16-2004, 02:00 PM | #832 |
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It's my first anniversary on Entmoot. Yay. I am searching for a way to celebrate it.
As for now: Anniversary! English Aniversario! Spanish Aniversário! Portuguese Ã…rsdag! Norwegian Ã…rsdag! Swedish Verjaardag! Dutch Évforduló! Hungarian годовщина Russian Anniversaire! French Anniversario! Italian
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Yeah, nisse is the same things as tomtenisse - or tomte. I had a Swedish poem about a 'tomte' a couple of pages ago. Quote:
JD, if you call me a 'torsk' I will bash NJ like never before - you ignorant Yankee Happy Anniversary, Lalaith. Tomorrow it's my 1st anniversary
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01-16-2004, 03:59 PM | #835 | |
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Lai, in Afrikaans your Anniversary would be your 'herdenking'. |
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01-16-2004, 04:28 PM | #836 | |
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Yankee is a complicated word and I understand what Baby-K is saying. But as Valandil said - too often it is used in the phrase "Yankee go home" or as a term of dislike and inferiority.
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And you better not bash New Jersey you damn arrogant euro-whiner.
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