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Re: linguistic "flavours" (was Re: Missing Words)

From:BP Jonsson <melroch@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 26, 2002, 17:50
At 00:09 2002-03-20 +0200, M. Å. wrote:

>Swedish is fish soup, for all sight, touch and taste. The fish has light >grayish flesh and vegetables are boiled fully soft. Not too much carrot. >Norwegian is the very same soup with some spices you would never expect to >find in fish soup. :)
If you mean that Swedish is bland in comparison to Norwegian I'm all with you! :-) Icelandic then is a salty, chunky fish soup with accompanying _brennivín_... BTW, what do your initials "M.Å." stand for? You are Finnish, right? /BP 8^)> -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@melroch.net (delete X) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__ A h-ammen ledin i phith! \ \ __ ____ ____ _____________ ____ __ __ __ / / \ \/___ \\__ \ /___ _____/\ \\__ \\ \ \ \\ \ / / / / / / / \ / /Melroch\ \_/ // / / // / / / / /___/ /_ / /\ \ / /Melarokko\_ // /__/ // /__/ / /_________//_/ \_\/ /Eowine __ / / \___/\_\\___/\_\ Gwaedhvenn Angeliniel\ \______/ /a/ /_h-adar Merthol naun ~~~~~~~~~Kuinondil~~~\________/~~\__/~~~Noolendur~~~~~~ || Lenda lenda pellalenda pellatellenda kuivie aiya! || "A coincidence, as we say in Middle-Earth" (JRR Tolkien)