Hertz
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Post by Hertz on Sept 6, 2011 10:49:21 GMT 1
I reckon he got bumped off. Shame, good books.
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Post by Solihull Terrier on Sept 6, 2011 15:28:49 GMT 1
Isn't there some debate about whether he actually wrote them?
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Post by JohnnyNeptune on Sept 6, 2011 16:01:17 GMT 1
shakespeare?
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Post by Admin on Sept 6, 2011 16:13:24 GMT 1
Isn't there some debate about whether he actually wrote them? Isn't there some debate about whether they are actually good?
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ralph2
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Post by ralph2 on Sept 6, 2011 16:41:48 GMT 1
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brispie
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Post by brispie on Sept 7, 2011 10:10:17 GMT 1
They aren't quite Dan Brown or Michael Crichton, but I still felt quite dirty reading them. Not sure whether they fall into the category of good writing, but certainly a good story.
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Bernie
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Post by Bernie on Sept 7, 2011 10:36:16 GMT 1
Michael Winner for the twattering classes if you ask me. And even if you didn't, it's still fucking true.
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Post by turtle on Sept 8, 2011 9:32:27 GMT 1
Oi Bernice - They're currently reshowing the Danish version of the Killing over here in the UK and the turtle's are very much liking it. How different is Svenish from Danish then? As a language like? Tak
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brispie
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Post by brispie on Sept 8, 2011 9:35:13 GMT 1
I thought they were like Spanish and Portugese. From the same family, but fell out and drifted apart years ago.
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Bernie
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Post by Bernie on Sept 8, 2011 11:19:48 GMT 1
Written down, pretty similar. (Though Danish is even similarler to Norwegian. Except there are two sorts of Norwegian and Danish is only really similar to one of them).
Spoken is a completely different matter. In the same way that, say, the newspapers in Surrey and Humberside seem to contain the same semantic symbols, nobody would claim they were realised as anything like the same sound, or that people from the two regions would have the slightest chance of understanding each other. Swedes tend to enunciate their words, Danish is just a collection of weird noises that all run into each other.
..as I think this documentary ably demonstrates:
p.s. And it's "tack". "Tak" means "roof". Unless you meant to say roof, in which case, well done.
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brispie
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Post by brispie on Sept 8, 2011 11:31:08 GMT 1
When I was in Lincolnshire recently it really hit home how Danish the whole place sounds.
Lots of place with -toft at the end. And every other village or town ends in -by or -thorpe.
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Bernie
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Post by Bernie on Sept 8, 2011 12:02:12 GMT 1
S'all over, innit? Anywhere that ends with "wick", "thorpe", "by", "holm" and quite probably "ham" as well has had some sort of Scandiniguloid influence. Plenty such places all around coastal Britain. Special mention to Lundy island as well, with lunna being the Swedish for puffin, which Lundy has in abundance.
It certainly helps knowing this stuff when someone here has a go at me about British imperialism.
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brispie
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Post by brispie on Sept 8, 2011 12:07:06 GMT 1
I'm quite proud of having grown up in what was the Danelaw and bow down to my Viking heritage (gingerish hair, lots of freckles, get sunburnt in the UK in February, can happily wear a t-shirt down to about 5c, but anything above 20c is way too hot for me).
Never realised that Dubh Linn was of Viking origin either.
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Bernie
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Post by Bernie on Sept 8, 2011 12:20:08 GMT 1
Apropos that, I was in the viking museum in Roskilde a few years back. They had excavated the remains of a longboat there which had been built in Dublin.
Explains why they're all pissed all the time, I suppose.
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