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Old 8 Apr 2008, 11:34 am

To Pepe: Frankly speaking, I do not completely understand the nature of the service Silæs has entered. It sounds like something resembling the military, but no one has mentioned that word yet.

Oh Wålf, you tempt me to write yet another linguistic essay. My apologies to the others.

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you don't really get what this word "Aisu Kurimu", "haafu" or "Nekkutai" means
I have developed a pretty good touch for them. I got aisu kurimu and nekkutai almost instantly, but haafu made me think of something like *herf or *harf so that I needed your reference.

You cannot really compare the older Scandinavian loan-words in Finnish with the mentioned ones in Japanese, because Swedish itself has changed so much in the meantime. Like, there are no Old English or Middle English loans in Japanese.

I will give you ten typical "modern" loans from Swedish (taken during the last two or maybe three hundred years). We generally use word-final i the way the Japanese would use syllable-completing u or o. You judge. My feeling is that older loans could be more hilarious but also much more difficult to get.

automaatti
jasmiini
likööri
keksi
majuri
pankki
pingviini
pörssi
sementti
sosiaalidemokraatti

Sometimes it is hard to determine whether a word is purely of Swedish origin; the corresponding Latin, Greek, German, etc. words may have affected the variant finally adapted for the literary norm.

To give a clear example with an AnimeB reference, ordinary people of the past decades widely used petonki (< Sw. betong < Fr. béton), but higher-class people more or less forced betoni (straight from French, I suppose) into its place. Nowadays, in speech, you almost exclusively meet variation from betoni to petoni, according to how deeply the individual speaker has adopted the use of b.
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Old 12 Apr 2008, 7:47 am

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So, uhh....

whatever happened to your leader?

What was his name again, Silas?
more commonly known as "teh lose". We anyway see him more as the source of all our complaints and personal servant than leader...

As Kataja notes, he's off to fight the wretched Swedes and reconquer Skåne with the rest of the powerful Danish Armed Forces. In other words; he's serving his military duty. As far as I've understood it's fairly short (4 months) and he's got the weekends off, so I guess we'll see more of him pretty soon.


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Oh Wålf, you tempt me to write yet another linguistic essay. My apologies to the others.
* wålf-kun smirks

And I kind of guessed that you wouldn't have that kind of new, weird, loanwords. Most of the English in Japanese has come in the last decade, probably mostly after WW2 with the American control of Japan etc. I can give you two more which are probably a little harder: terebi and shatsu.

I can understand most of those Swedish loanwords, and I can see they might be pretty amusing, at least I guess the Swedish influence on Finnish might in some ways at least be compared with the English influence on Norwegian(although this one will be younger).
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Old 21 Apr 2008, 1:03 am

Oh wow....



A subforum... o_O


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Old 22 Apr 2008, 6:03 pm

yeah, I know! pretty awesome, ne?

But despair not, we're still be the same nice Scandinavians, only now we'll feel slightly more important and powerful

Nah, you're still welcome anytime, pepe! and if you feel like it you're even free to bring friends! haven't seen to many of those other Pinoys...
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Old 22 Apr 2008, 6:41 pm

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But despair not, we're still be the same nice Scandinavians, only now we'll feel slightly more important and powerful
Skål för Jeims Bond!
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Old 22 Apr 2008, 11:50 pm

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Nah, you're still welcome anytime, pepe! and if you feel like it you're even free to bring friends! haven't seen to many of those other Pinoys...
That's because they haven't been around D:
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Skål för Jeims Bond!
yes, that will teach them underestimating us

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That's because they haven't been around D:
and here we're trying to bond with the strongest parts of animeb, and you turn out useless? j/k. Shame though, this place is seeing less activity lately...
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Old 25 Apr 2008, 9:47 am

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To Pepe: Frankly speaking, I do not completely understand to nature of the service Silæs has entered. It sounds like something resembling the military, but no one has mentioned that word yet.
Well it's simply just compulsary military service. Every young man has to do service for 4 months, and that's what I'm doing right now. I'll return with more activity once I'm done
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Old 25 Apr 2008, 11:01 am

Ooh, military service!


We have something like that here; called ROTC...



I never took it... >_<
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Old 26 Apr 2008, 10:44 am

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Ooh, military service!


We have something like that here; called ROTC...



I never took it... >_<
the Reserve Officer thingie? what is that all about? do you like really join the army, or just get training so that you could join the military if need be?

And the the Danish (and Norwegian) military isn't voluntarily

Hopefully we will see you back soon, Silas!
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Old 6 Sep 2008, 6:25 pm

No posting here since April?!!

I ran into this great song the other day. Why had nobody ever mentioned it to me?

The Black Eyed Peas: Bebot

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Old 7 Sep 2008, 10:52 am

Oh yeah, Bebot is basically Apl De Ap flaunting his Filipino Pride

How you guys been over there? No civil war yet?
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