Did you know that Bjork can speak danish
Jon Hauge Hansen
Thats cool.
And there is udkommet en sang in Denmark
Whitney67
Yes, it's true. Iceland was a colony of Denmarks for a very long time,
until the 1940's and danish is still taught in schools in Iceland as a
result. But I saw an interview on TV where Bjork said that Icelanders like
to forget about the Danix=sh they know, because there still is a slight
resentment toward them from the colonial days. She said in this interview
that if you want to call someone a bitch or some thing like that, you call
them "danish" in icelandic. It's an insult in there language.
bye,
-Tom
gudmundur
In article <01bb8c8e$6d913c60$2692b6c2@121818936165>,
ha...@post1.tele.dk says...
>
>Thats cool.
>And there is udkommet en sang in Denmark
dialects, except for fin. Also German, Flem, fransk and others are
common electives. Bless og sjámst.
MING
In article <01bb8c8e$6d913c60$2692b6c2@121818936165>, ha...@post1.tele.dk
says...
>
>Thats cool.
>And there is udkommet en sang in Denmark
No surprise. I (a swede) understand norweigan, danish, swedish
(really!;), west(swede) finnish, and icelandic well. (a little ankward on
speaking though) Without any actual training. Those are so damn much
alike.
[MING]
Ingrid Anneli Barmann
Whitney67 (whit...@aol.com) wrote:
: that if you want to call someone a bitch or some thing like that, you call
: them "danish" in icelandic. It's an insult in there language.
Yeah, but did you know that's also why they tend to speak their danish
VERY properly so that it sounds like Norwegian? They like norwegians much
better than danish people....
Grin from Norway
Anneli
Ryan Lupien
>[MING]
not too mention ENGLISH!
Trond H=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E5vard Holmen
The whole linguistic community is against you. Finnish isn't even a
Germanic language.
Trond H=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E5vard Holmen
MING wrote:
>
> In article <01bb8c8e$6d913c60$2692b6c2@121818936165>, ha...@post1.tele.dk
> says...
> >
> >Thats cool.
> >And there is udkommet en sang in Denmark
>
> No surprise. I (a swede) understand norweigan, danish, swedish
> (really!;), west(swede) finnish, and icelandic well. (a little ankward on
> speaking though) Without any actual training. Those are so damn much
> alike.
>
> [MING
STOP! What's west(swede) finnish. Is there a creole between those two
languages!?! Unbelievable!
MING
In article <32204C...@online.no>, troh...@online.no says...
Finland is two-lingual. There is a nordic language there too. (in west
parts).
Magnus Olsson
In article <504ir9$2...@mn5.swip.net>,
1) Finland is officially bilingual. One of the official languages
is Swedish. It's not a separate language from "mainland" Swedish, just
a dialect. The other official language, Finnish, is spoken by the majority
of Finnish people and is very different from Swedish. (There is no language
called "west(swede) finnish" - I think MING is a bit confused about the
terminology).
2) The Scandinavian languages Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are very closely
related and mutually comprehensible (with some difficulty in some
cases).
3) Icelandic is closely related to Danish, Swedish and Norwegian but
sufficiently different to be incomprehensible to, say, a Swede.
4) Bjork said in a TV interview that she was taught Danish in school but
doesn't like speaking it - she prefers to speak English even when
talking to Danes.
--
Magnus Olsson (m...@df.lth.se)
MING
In article <50eemo$c...@news.lth.se>, m...@marvin.df.lth.se says...
>3) Icelandic is closely related to Danish, Swedish and Norwegian but
>sufficiently different to be incomprehensible to, say, a Swede.
not to me, it ain´t. I got the picture almost immediatley.
[MING]
Robobork
There have been mumblings about a song Bjork recorded in Danish... I was
in Denmark last weekend on business and stopped in to a record shop and
asked... the store owner said he had heard it, but that only the record
station had a copy and was refusing to release it for sale.
Also, he said it was difficult to tell is she was singing in Danish or
Swedish, and that in general Danes could not really understand the song
very clearly. So I'm not sure what that says about her language skills, or
the Nordic languages and their similarities/sissimilarities in general, or
about Danes listening to her music in particular...
Anyway, just some info for anyone who was interested.
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Elin
In article <50eemo$c...@news.lth.se>, m...@marvin.df.lth.se says...
>3) Icelandic is closely related to Danish, Swedish and Norwegian but
>sufficiently different to be incomprehensible to, say, a Swede.
Long time ago the Norwegian vikings went to Iceland and setteled there.
That's why especially many Norwegian dialects are so close to Icelandic.
We have two officially languages in Norway as well, New-Norwegian and
Book-maal.
Elin
In article <50v7uq$p...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, robo...@aol.com says...
>Also, he said it was difficult to tell is she was singing in Danish or
>Swedish, and that in general Danes could not really understand the song
>very clearly. So I'm not sure what that says about her language skills, or
>the Nordic languages and their similarities/sissimilarities in general, or
>about Danes listening to her music in particular...
Very often the Danish which is spoken by Icelandics sound more like
Norwegian, because the Icelandic phonetics is closer to the Norwegian
phonetics than the Danish one, whihc is a bit different. (Norwegians use to
say that the Danish are speaking with potatoes in their throat.) :)
Lunargirl
Robobork wrote:
>
> There have been mumblings about a song Bjork recorded in Danish... I was
> in Denmark last weekend on business and stopped in to a record shop and
> asked... the store owner said he had heard it, but that only the record
> station had a copy and was refusing to release it for sale.
Yes she most definitely has recorded a danish song...the movie and song
is called
"Nu flyver Anton" and soon im going to have it downloadable from my
site...and also
a friend of mine is going to burn it to cd as they wont release it
themselves.
they have too much legal hassel
Lunargirl
Hey! i thought it was DANISH vikings!
thats what it says in my lexicon!thats why they learn danish in school
iceland was a danish colony for several years..thats why many icelanders
are too proud to speak danish...those are the words of Bjork herself...
Elin
In article <3235C2...@himlen.pp.se>, g...@himlen.pp.se says...
No, the Norwegian vikings went to Iceland and setteled ther. Icelandic is
almost completely the same as the old Norwegian language 'Norrønt', only with
small differences. That they were a Danish colony is another styory. Norway
was also a Danish colony for some hundred years, before it was handed over to
Sweeden and then finaly became independent in 1905.
Rose A Armstrong
On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Lunargirl wrote:
> Elin wrote:
> >
> > In article <50eemo$c...@news.lth.se>, m...@marvin.df.lth.se says...
> > >3) Icelandic is closely related to Danish, Swedish and Norwegian but
> > >sufficiently different to be incomprehensible to, say, a Swede.
> >
> > Long time ago the Norwegian vikings went to Iceland and setteled there.
> > That's why especially many Norwegian dialects are so close to Icelandic.
> >
> > We have two officially languages in Norway as well, New-Norwegian and
> > Book-maal.
>
> Hey! i thought it was DANISH vikings!
> thats what it says in my lexicon!thats why they learn danish in school
> iceland was a danish colony for several years..thats why many icelanders
> are too proud to speak danish...those are the words of Bjork herself...
>
>
There were Danish vikings but the Norwegian vikings were the majority of
people who settled in Iceland. Later on Iceland was a colony of Sweden
and then Denmark.
Rose Armstrong
babypiggy
Bradley CoR Andrews
> Long time ago the Norwegian vikings went to Iceland and setteled there.
> That's why especially many Norwegian dialects are so close to Icelandic.
Not that it really matters, but Icelandic is almost exactly the same as
Old English as well.
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Elin
In article <323C9B...@capernaum.net>, andr...@capernaum.net says...
>> Long time ago the Norwegian vikings went to Iceland and setteled there.
>> That's why especially many Norwegian dialects are so close to Icelandic.
>
>Not that it really matters, but Icelandic is almost exactly the same as
>Old English as well.
I know, but Icelandic are closer to Old Norwegian than Old English. Talking
about Old English... I ought to do my written exercises in Old English
soon... Ugh.
Elin Gyda
Niels Teglsbo
eli...@hedda.uio.no (Elin) wrote:
The norweigen language sound more like danish than swedish
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Richard Eriksson
In reply to the question in the subject, if it hasn't already been answered,
Icelandic children learn Danish in school.
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