Re: Weird stuff

John Cowan wrote:

> This is from a now-down site yehan.net, preserved in the Google
> cache:
It's actually not Scandinavian, but Swedish. It's obviously
someone very left wing or anarchistic who wrote it.

> Text: Ròshanak
Ròshanak is definitely not a Swedish name. (It does sound
a bit like the Swedish rap star Rusiak tho...)

> sju blodiga söndagar
> madrid, barcelona, guernica
> granit och granater
> bataljon garibaldi
seven bloody sundays
madrid, barcelona, guernica
granite and grenades
battalion garibaldi

> nio utbrända riksdagar
> berlin, roma, berlin
> svamlande fascisternas trams
> vansinnes svepande spiral
nine burnt-out parliaments
berlin, rome, berlin
rambling the nonsense of the fascists
madness sweeping spiral

> ¡No, No pasaran!
>
> tretton susande spjut
> tretton fladdrande nationalflaggor
> flerdubbelt döda profeter
> predikande finansiära finess
thirteen sweeping spears
thirteen flapping national flags
multiple dead prophets
preaching financial finesse

> wall street, pentagon, CIA
> demokratins mondiala konkurs
wall street, pentagon, CIA
the mondial bankruptcy of democracy

> ¡No, No, No pasaran!
>
> trettiotusen brinnande städer
> tågande mot kapitalisternas vapenindustri
> krossande fascisternas sväpande vansinnesspiral
thirty thousand burning cities
marching against the weapon industry of the capitalists
crushing the fascist's sweeping spiral of madness

Hmm... It contains too many participles to be good
Swedish and two or three sentences are ungrammatical.

"vansinnes svepande spiral" should be either "vansinnets
svepande spiral" or "svepande vansinnesspiral". I have
*no* idea what it's supposed to mean, though.
The same goes for "predikande finansiära finess" which
should be either "finesser" or "finansiär". Either plural
or singular, that is. You can't have an adjective in the
plural which modifies a noun in the singular.

Anyway...

||| daniel

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