What country are you from? - Page 4

RLacey · 05-27-2005, 11:42 AM

Pie is better. Apparently.

Curt · 05-27-2005, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Mattsius

How would you know, you're not from Sweden now are you?

Bah, you found me out, Mattsius. I guess I gave too much information away in this thread, eh?

Henke · 05-27-2005, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Hamham Chan

Do you live in Sweden, Henrik?

As Mattsius pointed out you're the winner. Here have a semla.

Jazhara7 · 05-27-2005, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Henke

semla.

Is that a kind of bun? Because "Semla" seems to resemble the german word "Semmel", which is basically a bun.

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Elton28 · 05-28-2005, 12:55 AM

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Originally Posted by gillyruless

Now I see the violence inherent in the system.

Besides, I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.

Just remember that you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!

HELP!! HELP!! I'M BEING REPRESSED!

S'funny how good old MP finds its way into everything on these forums...LOL

Hamham Chan · 05-28-2005, 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Henke

As Mattsius pointed out you're the winner. Here have a semla.

Thank you, i´m also from Sweden, the country that gave the world Ingmar Begman AND Dolph Lundgren(!).

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Originally Posted by Jazhara7

Is that a kind of bun? Because "Semla" seems to resemble the german word "Semmel", which is basically a bun.

Sorta, it´s a Swedish pastry, they´re really tasty.

Mattsius · 05-29-2005, 04:38 AM

The funny thing is that in Finland-Swedish that is a "fastlagsbulle". A "semla" is basically just a normal bread.

Jazhara7 · 05-29-2005, 05:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Mattsius

The funny thing is that in Finland-Swedish that is a "fastlagsbulle". A "semla" is basically just a normal bread.

"Fastlag"..."Festtag"? A day of celebration?

You can really see how languages are related...

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Mattsius · 05-29-2005, 08:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Jazhara7

"Fastlag"..."Festtag"? A day of celebration?

You can really see how languages are related...

Yeah, Swedish and German are very closely related. I believe my Swedish teacher told me that they coincide to somewhere between 50 and 60%. That's quite a lot actually.

And you eat "fastlagsbullar" on a Tuesday somewhere in mid February. I believe it's originally a Christian celebration. Back in the days people ate a lot on that Tuesday, because after that they would be fasting (I hope you can use the word like this) all the way to Easter. It's not a religious celebration anymore though (at least not in Finland).

Talas · 05-29-2005, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Mattsius

Yeah, Swedish and German are very closely related. I believe my Swedish teacher told me that they coincide to somewhere between 50 and 60%. That's quite a lot actually.

Really? Nice, looking at the different branches in its language family I thought they were more different from each other.

donnie · 05-30-2005, 03:46 AM

hu! ha! What a coincidence - I'm also from Germany ^^
And I love dialects, especially german ones

I'm speaking "pfälzisch", for example - because I'm from Rhineland-Palatinate, which is near France.
Over here, almost every city has its own slightly different dialect: citizens of Mannheim (in pfälzisch it's called "Mannem") sound different than citizens of Kaiserslautern (in pfälzisch it's called "Lautre"), for example

Henke · 06-01-2005, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Hamham Chan

Thank you, i´m also from Sweden, the country that gave the world Ingmar Begman AND Dolph Lundgren(!).

Really? Cool. Not to forget that we gave the world Abba AND Bathory.

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Originally Posted by Hamham Chan

Yeah, Swedish and German are very closely related. I believe my Swedish teacher told me that they coincide to somewhere between 50 and 60%. That's quite a lot actually.

All Scandinavian languages as well as Dutch are related to German. I believe that Danish and Dutch are the ones that are closest and Swedish the one furthest away from the German language.

Hamham Chan · 06-01-2005, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Mattsius

Congratulations, you won! Here, have a cookie.

How about some Lapin Kultaa instead?

donnie · 06-01-2005, 10:32 PM

Did you know that: http://www.newpaltz.org/Origin.html ?

Or this: "New Paltz was founded in 1677 by French Huguenots who had taken refuge in Mannheim, Germany, for a few years before coming to America. Mannheim was, at that time, capital of the area called the Rhenish Palatinate or, in German, the Rhein Pfalz.
The people of Mannheim leave out the "f" in the name Pfalz, pronouncing it "Paltz." Records of the New Paltz Reformed Church, which was formed in 1683, show the name of the settlement was first expressed not in German, nor in English, but in French: Nouveau Palatinat."? (villageofnewpaltz.org)

I didn't - but I think it's very interesting

Kolzig · 06-02-2005, 04:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Hamham Chan

How about some Lapin Kultaa instead?

But that's the worst beer in Finland.

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donnie Desperate Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Germany Posts: 17	hu! ha! What a coincidence - I'm also from Germany ^^ And I love dialects, especially german ones I'm speaking "pfälzisch", for example - because I'm from Rhineland-Palatinate, which is near France. Over here, almost every city has its own slightly different dialect: citizens of Mannheim (in pfälzisch it's called "Mannem") sound different than citizens of Kaiserslautern (in pfälzisch it's called "Lautre"), for example http://www.ex.ac.uk/~pjoyce/dialects/wmdpfalz.html http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pf%C3%A4lzisch Share Share this post on Twitter Last edited by donnie; 05-30-2005 at 03:53 AM.

06-01-2005, 10:32 PM	#74
donnie Desperate Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Germany Posts: 17	Did you know that: http://www.newpaltz.org/Origin.html ? Or this: "New Paltz was founded in 1677 by French Huguenots who had taken refuge in Mannheim, Germany, for a few years before coming to America. Mannheim was, at that time, capital of the area called the Rhenish Palatinate or, in German, the Rhein Pfalz. The people of Mannheim leave out the "f" in the name Pfalz, pronouncing it "Paltz." Records of the New Paltz Reformed Church, which was formed in 1683, show the name of the settlement was first expressed not in German, nor in English, but in French: Nouveau Palatinat."? (villageofnewpaltz.org) I didn't - but I think it's very interesting Share Share this post on Twitter Last edited by donnie; 06-01-2005 at 10:41 PM.

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