Ye Olde Pub (The English Pub)

[Slimda]

I've been rather busy with work, spamming other threads on the forum and keeping my vast intellect from descending into catastrophical madness which would end in the total obliteration of humankind.

 

But other than that, I've been good.

[SnittLeif]

A proper good morning to you all!

Hope you've all had a wonderful weekend

[2ball_]

I've been rather busy with work, spamming other threads on the forum and keeping my vast intellect from descending into catastrophical madness which would end in the total obliteration of humankind.

 

But other than that, I've been good.

 

Same old, same old, I see?

 

A proper good morning to you all!

Hope you've all had a wonderful weekend

 

I had an ok weekend. "Didn't do notin at all"

[Gjest Slettet+13412342564]

The weekend was great, today however...

[2ball_]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O21St4SMs68

 

Love that song.. Seeing how much the original sucs and how funny thisone is

[Gjest medlem-1432]

And a welcome to the new member I see you are canadian, then English is you'r real language which you talk and write daily? and are you learning norwegian all by your self?

 

 

It's been really quiet here lately yes..

[2ball_]

And a welcome to the new member I see you are canadian, then English is you'r real language which you talk and write daily? and are you learning norwegian all by your self?

 

 

It's been really quiet here lately yes..

 

It has, indeed

 

Who is ths new Canadian?

Endret 31. oktober 2010 av 2ball(s)

[Bonna86]

Yes, been rather quiet here recently. Either way, got my exams coming up in November, one of them being an oral exam in 'British Studies', which I dread. I hate oral exams, I can't stand them to be honest. Well, well..

[Gjest medlem-1432]

The new member on the last pager, or the page before that. I was sneaking in his profile.

 

So what's up people?

[Gjest medlem-1432]

Yvonne, I also have a oral exam in english wery soon. I got a 2 last time, and I hoping to do it better this time. Not looking forward to it.

[ole_marius]

I most admit it's been a while since I've been using this tread now. Can by the way boast that i em now a student at Bodø University where i take a english lesson that is specified to the engineer profession. Tough, i only take scientific subject such as R1, R2 and FY1 mathematic because i never took em at the upper secondary school.

 

 

So you can say that it's to step forward and one step back..

Endret 31. oktober 2010 av ole_marius

[Bonna86]

Oh, I see. Well, just do your best and be prepared, not much more than that you can do. Glad I don't have an oral exam in phonetics and phonology, that would have killed me.(..)

[Gjest Slettet+13412342564]

Right, oral Norwegian presentation tomorrow. No biggie, just 50% of my end grade in Norwegian...

 

 

Wish me luck!

[Bear^]

The best of luck on your test

 

I've counted the days and I only have around 1 month left of work before I have 3 wonderful weeks of Christmas vacation. I think I'll spend that with the new expansion of World of Warcraft, though family always comes first during that time

[jjkoggan]

And a welcome to the new member I see you are canadian, then English is you'r real language which you talk and write daily? and are you learning norwegian all by your self?

 

 

It's been really quiet here lately yes..

 

It has, indeed

 

Who is ths new Canadian?

Any amerikaners out there like myself? Lived in det gamle lancet for awhile and miss it. Sorry for typos. anybody from lillestrom?

[Me sjøl]

I figure this thread is a good place to leave this: Uncleftish Beholding. It's a short text on atomic theory written almost exclusively in words of Anglo-Saxon origin. Many of the neologisms formed from older English words that have since been replaced bear a striking resemblance to Norwegian. Some examples:

 

- "Tale" for number.

- "Lading" for charge.

- "Fastsets" for "determines".

- "Sourstuff" for oxygen (compare "surstoff").

- "Bestands" for "consists".

 

A quote:

With enough strength, lightweight unclefts can be made to togethermelt. In the sun, through a row of strikings and lightrottings, four unclefts of waterstuff in this wise become one of sunstuff. Again some weight is lost as work, and again this is greatly big when set beside the work gotten from a minglingish doing such as fire.

 

If not for the influence of Latin and Greek, a lot of broken English from the mouths of Norwegians would probably be valid. It's our own fault, too: the Norman invasion set off the whole chain of events.

Endret 8. november 2010 av Me sjøl

[jjkoggan]

If not for the influence of Latin and Greek, a lot of broken English from the mouths of Norwegians would probably be valid. It's our own fault, too: the Norman invasion set off the whole chain of events.

 

English is hugely influenced by the old norse languages. As an american I found norwegian to be infinitely easier to learn than the so-called romantic languages or german.

 

This is also true in america. Where I live today in Cincinnati Ohio the linguistic remnants of the huge german-american immigrant population that existed for many years still persists, much to the ignorance of its inhabitants.

 

Cincinnati has the worlds 2nd largest Oktoberfest, slightly behind Munic.

 

17de Mai in Decorah Iowa is huge too and local dialects are laced with norwegian american remnants.

 

Don't know if anyone is interested in immigrant american dialects, though I find norwegians often language obsessed.

[Slimda]

I don't know about other norwegians, but I'm very fond of accents and dialects of other countries. Mostly english though, as that's the only foreign language I can speak.

[Getingar]

The languages are similar in all contrys

 

Swe Eng

 

sky-sky

fot-fot

hand-hand

tala-talk

taga-take

finna-find

gråsten-graystone

hjord/hord-horde

[Slimda]

You do realize that Swedish, Norwegian and Danish are closer related than most other languages around?