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Re: OT: Official language post

From:BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 2, 2003, 5:52
At 10:00 1.4.2003 -0800, Elliott Lash wrote:
> > Alls ekki! Þau eru helsta málin í heimunum! > >Not so! They are the most ?beautiful? languages in >the world? > >Right right?
More or less. _Helstur_ (if it at all exists in masculine strong nominative...) also means "best, most popular, nicest, most preferable" in short it got no short translation into other languages. And _heimunum_ is dative *plural*, so "in the worlds" -- an Eddic idiom. / B.Philip Jonsson B^) -- mailto:melrochX@melroch.net (delete X!) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ No man forgets his original trade: the rights of nations and of kings sink into questions of grammar, if grammarians discuss them. -Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784)