Re: I'm back, sort of

>Date:         Sat, 27 Sep 2003 12:44:56 +0200
>From: Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
>
>Just for masochism value, perhaps one should one day take the time to learn
>Dutch properly?
Actually, not so long ago I met this nice South African who was kind enough
to teach me some bits of Afrikaans...

>
>                                                        Andreas


>Date:         Thu, 25 Sep 2003 14:45:09 -0400
>From: Isidora Zamora <isidora@...>
>Subject:      Re: I'm back, sort of
>
>I think
>some of the loan words into Danish that stand out as being English, may
be
>in fact from French or Latin.
And Greek (like "economy", I think).

>One thing that happened to me once while my
>host family and I were sitting around the dinner table conversing is that
>I
>wanted to say something, but didn't know the Danish words for it.  So I
>asked, "How do you say 'economic depression' in Danish?"  "Økonomisk
>depression," came the answer.  I didn't know whether to feel stupid or amazed.
Heh. :) You'd love to read scientific Finnish. I've seen a linguist write
several times _eksperimentti_, which is on the other hand quite understandable,
since the normal Finnish word for 'experiment' is so long and difficult:
_koe_.

But I'd better get off the soap box before I really start. :)

>
>Isidora

- M. Astrand
"Neeba." - "Teeba?" - "Qeesvefar la:lka." - "Djo:ly."
"Guess what?" - "What?" - "I've learned how to speak." - "Great."

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