Re: OT: Official language post
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 2, 2003, 5:52 |
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At 10:00 1.4.2003 -0800, Elliott Lash wrote:
> > Alls ekki! Þau eru helsta málin í heimunum!
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>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^)
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