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^)>
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