Languages

[Rsandee]

Whatever you say, if you put the gravy in the middle of a pudding, it becomes the stuff of gods.

Custard with gravy? Really?

[Greengoop]

Custard with gravy? Really?

Ahhh, only a Brit would understand m’boy.

[Rsandee]

Custard with gravy? Really?

Ahhh, only a Brit would understand m’boy.

Good show ol' chap. Well I'd love to try shepherd's pie or other dishes, there's just not really a good supply of English food over here.

[Steo]

Oh sorry, I guess Swedish does have masc/fem pronouns, just no masc/fem grammatical gender (which English doesn't either)

Yeah pretty much like this. I know French, German, and Spanish have those genders though, and to me it would be so confusing to get used to. One other thing Swedish has, and I'm not sure about other languages, is that you actually refer to people from family based on the side they are from.

For example, we say grandmother and grandfather, they have

farfar = father's father
farmor = father's mother
mormor = mother's mother
morfar = mother's father

They do the same with uncles and aunts etc.

[DaveRattlehead]

Seems like small fry to me but that's maybe because french is a language with 1% rules and 99% exceptions to the rules.

Well your numbers are definitely a nightmare

Nope, Yorkshire roast absolutely DOMINATES Spanish omelette any day.

Not if it contains chorizo and garlic. Which is a variation I loved to make.

Yay, that's a good one!

[Greengoop]

Good show ol' chap. Well I'd love to try shepherd's pie or other dishes, there's just not really a good supply of English food over here.

Omg yes shepherd’s pie! Though I have cottage pie more frequently.

[PluMGMK]

Well your numbers are definitely a nightmare

Irish numbers are the worst. I don't think I'll ever get my head around them properly

[Rsandee]

Oh sorry, I guess Swedish does have masc/fem pronouns, just no masc/fem grammatical gender (which English doesn't either)

Yeah pretty much like this. I know French, German, and Spanish have those genders though, and to me it would be so confusing to get used to. One other thing Swedish has, and I'm not sure about other languages, is that you actually refer to people from family based on the side they are from.

For example, we say grandmother and grandfather, they have

farfar = father's father
farmor = father's mother
mormor = mother's mother
morfar = mother's father

They do the same with uncles and aunts etc.

True! It also reminds me of Turkish!

Anne: Mother
Anneanne: Grandmother from mom's side
Baba: Father
Babaanne: Grandmother from dad's side

This is where it changes though, as grandfather is "büyükbaba" or "dede".

[DaveRattlehead]

How are they?

[Steo]

True! It also reminds me of Turkish!

Anne: Mother
Anneanne: Grandmother from mom's side
Baba: Father
Babaanne: Grandmother from dad's side

This is where it changes though, as grandfather is "büyükbaba" or "dede".

Interesting, maybe it's just common for certain languages then. The ones who do use it think English is confusing, because they're like "which grandfather, which grandmother, which uncle, etc. It seems weird to them because it's vague in comparison. Swedish though is a very specific language compared to English, everything seems so specific. Even flygplats, that's airport, it literally means "flying place".

[PluMGMK]

It's strange that English has this problem, given that "grand" was borrowed from French. I'd have to check, but it's possible that the Germanic terms in Old English would still have had the same specificity that survives into Modern Swedish…

[Rsandee]

Yeah "flygplats" right? In Dutch that sounds like "vliegplaats', but we say "vliegveld", which means "fly field".
In German it's "Flughafen", which sounds like "fly harbor" in Dutch, which sounds strange.
Even more stranger: a "meer" is a lake in Dutch, while "zee" means sea.
In German: "Meer" means sea while "See" means a lake.

[PluMGMK]

That's funny about the swapping of meanings between Meer and See I'm guessing Meer is borrowed from French and See is native…

[Curionone]

True! It also reminds me of Turkish!

Anne: Mother
Anneanne: Grandmother from mom's side
Baba: Father
Babaanne: Grandmother from dad's side

This is where it changes though, as grandfather is "büyükbaba" or "dede".

dede: grandfather from mom's side in most cases. Just grandfather actually.
büyükbaba: grandfather from dad's side, but rarely used.

There is also
nene: grandmother from mom's side

And, let's not forget ebe
ebe: grandmother and also another meaning too. I am leaving for you Rsandee.

[Rsandee]

Thanks for the explanation

[PluMGMK]

Returning to what I alluded to earlier: whenever I use an "Eject" button, I usually whisper to myself "eīciō eīcere eiēcī eiectum" and it feels so satisfying

[Rsandee]

Did you just perform a spell on us?

[PluMGMK]

Nope, just recited the four principal parts of the verb

[Rsandee]

I can't do that

[PluMGMK]

For a while I could do it in Old Norse too, for the stong verbs. I only had that ability for a few weeks in mid-2022 though, then I lost it again from lack of practice