ADD COMMUNITY - Skandinaviska Språk (Danish, Norwegian & Swedish)

naitkris · 11-01-2003 6:45pm #1

Board Name: Skandinaviska Språk (Danish, Norwegian & Swedish)
Description: Board for those who want to discuss the Scandinavian languages and/or converse in them.
Private Y/N: N

If approved, it will be in the "Society > Languages" area. As the Scandinavian languages are very similar (written anyway) I thought it'd be a cool idea to have a joint forum to bring us Scandinavians living in Ireland together (from what I hear - there is enough of us to have ourselves a decent sized town). It also can serve as a place for those who want to know more about the countries or learn one of the languages. I would hope to post threads dedicated to learning some new words in Swedish (Danish, Norwegian anyone?) for non-Scandinavians (I am Swedish btw).

I know I need 4 other people to support this before a board it is created and would appreciate support from non-Scandinavian speakers as well if you are willing to lay your username on the line :-).

cheers,

Naitkris

yellum · 11-01-2003 6:59pm

I'll support it. Theres loads of the Northern lads in Cork.

I speak a bit of swedish myself:

Bork Bork Bork Heeere Burdy Burdy Bork Bork Bork Ah Hurdy Burdy

Seriously though, not a bad idea at all. I give it the thumbs up.

pro_gnostic_8 · 11-01-2003 7:15pm

Me too. Fully support this proposal.

phreak · 11-01-2003 7:35pm

/me gives support.

naitkris · 11-01-2003 7:41pm

Originally posted by yellum
I'll support it. Theres loads of the Northern lads in Cork.

I speak a bit of swedish myself:

Bork Bork Bork Heeere Burdy Burdy Bork Bork Bork Ah Hurdy Burdy

Seriously though, not a bad idea at all. I give it the thumbs up.

i am in cork myself, studying at UCC. thanks for such quick support btw - just 1 more vote needed (though more then 1 would be very welcome too)!

sceptre · 11-01-2003 8:21pm

Thumbs up

I'd be interested especially if you go ahead with that "swedish for idiots" idea

(watching Smultronstället with no need for subtitles would be nice)

PiE · 11-01-2003 9:14pm

Endorsed! I'd also like some Scandi-for-idiots.

I know Finland technically isn't Scandinavia, but can it be included nonetheless? :]

Gordon · 11-01-2003 9:23pm

Anything that brings blonde haired Scandinavian sexy ladies to boards definately gets my firm vote standing to attention.

And I can impress said ladies with my knowledge of their tongues by saying
Du e mongo!
Rot grot med fleude
and - Mele mister messen mele manga melaria.

that usually gets them going

daveirl · 11-01-2003 9:47pm

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Dustaz · 11-01-2003 9:55pm

I support this, albeit for the exact same reasons gordon does

naitkris · 11-01-2003 10:09pm

Originally posted by Gordon
Anything that brings blonde haired Scandinavian sexy ladies to boards definately gets my firm vote standing to attention.

And I can impress said ladies with my knowledge of their tongues by saying
Du e mongo!
Rot grot med fleude
and - Mele mister messen mele manga melaria.

that usually gets them going

Gordon - very good, unfortunately i for 1 am not female, nor completely blone for that matter. sexy? i'd like to think so.

on the topic of blondes, coming from sweden, irish girls who dye their hair blonde look so ugly compared to their natural colour - i always avoid those fake blondes i tell ya! irish girls the way they are are just fine.

thanks to everyone who has supported my cause for this new forum albeit for "different" reasons.

Naitkris

naitkris · 11-01-2003 10:11pm

Originally posted by daveirl
As I'm going to UCC, live in Cork too and think it's a good idea I fully support it!

What are you studying BTW?

computer science, you?

naitkris · 11-01-2003 10:27pm

Originally posted by PiE
Endorsed! I'd also like some Scandi-for-idiots.

I know Finland technically isn't Scandinavia, but can it be included nonetheless? :]

Finnish is very very different from any of the Scandinavian languages trying to talk to one another would lead nowhere and again it's also not in Scandinavia contrary to popular belief, it is a Nordic country as is Iceland though, but again Icelandic is also slightly different and hard to understand if I was to speak to someone from Iceland. So no, I don't think it should be included.

While on this discussion isn't it so similar to the EU and Turkey. While only 5% of Turkey can be considered to be in Europe, people are actually considering having Turkey in Europe. For heavens sake, TURKEY IS NOT A EUROPEAN COUNTRY and never will be (well maybe only in a couple of thousand years if one takes into account the movement of the Earth's plates!).

daveirl · 11-01-2003 11:53pm

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Gordon · 12-01-2003 12:13am

Originally posted by naitkris
TURKEY IS NOT A EUROPEAN COUNTRY

And either is Israel so why oh why are they in the Eurovision song contest

PiE · 12-01-2003 12:25am

I know Suomi is alot different from the others, but it's hardly gonna get a board on its own

STaN · 12-01-2003 2:35am

u could get board.se and link it

phase 1 to world domination

sceptre · 12-01-2003 3:09am

Originally posted by Gordon
And either is Israel so why oh why are they in the Eurovision song contest

Member of the European Broadcasting Union. That's what gets them in. And the reason they're in the EBU is the same reason they play the World Cup qualifiers in the European groups and don't get to automatically win the Asian Nations Cup any more - the Arabs don't want to deal with them.

damnyanks · 12-01-2003 5:11am

Jag ar Gud tbh

Gordon · 12-01-2003 12:17pm

Hey thanks Sceptre, it has been confusing me and some friends for some time now.

naitkris · 12-01-2003 12:21pm

Originally posted by PiE
I know Suomi is alot different from the others, but it's hardly gonna get a board on its own

very true, i see your point, though most Finns have Swedish as their 2nd langauge and 350,000 of them have it as their mother tongue so they're welcome to join in of course.

i could change it to Nordiska Språk and thus include Iceland as well, but like the Nordic bid for Euro 2008, it's just too many countries in one bid for it to be viable. If it was like South America where the languages are the same (bar Brazil - Portugese) then it would be no problem.

i'm guessing your Finnish yourself, PiE?

Karl Hungus · 12-01-2003 12:43pm

I'm all for it...
I might find out what the hell all these Norwegian bands are on about?
Maybe it'd spoil the mystery of it though...?

PiE · 12-01-2003 1:46pm

Originally posted by naitkris
i could change it to Nordiska Språk and thus include Iceland as well, but like the Nordic bid for Euro 2008, it's just too many countries in one bid for it to be viable.

Aye I see your point too.

Originally posted by naitkris

i'm guessing your Finnish yourself, PiE?

I wish

I'm just interested in that part of the world.

Typedef · 12-01-2003 1:57pm

"Ya for sure from Sweden"
"But, you're wearing Leiderhosen"

monument · 12-01-2003 9:52pm

Originally posted by STaN
u could get board.se and link it

phase 1 to world domination

phase 1???

I was told they were on phase two

DMC · 12-01-2003 10:55pm

Originally posted by sceptre
Member of the European Broadcasting Union. That's what gets them in. And the reason they're in the EBU is the same reason they play the World Cup qualifiers in the European groups and don't get to automatically win the Asian Nations Cup any more - the Arabs don't want to deal with them.

And the same with Morocco.

in 1980, if you are asking....

Da dum da de daaa dum daaaaaaa de daaaa, da-dum da de dadada da dum da de da, da dum da de daaa dum daaaaaaa daaaa, da dum-de-dum-de daaaaaa, dum da!

Now, can we break the pan-baltic stranglehold on the Eurovision?

PiE · 12-01-2003 11:32pm

Originally posted by DMC
Now, can we break the pan-baltic stranglehold on the Eurovision?

Nah, let them keep it. Make it MiddleEastroVision so we can be rid of it once and for all.

Mr.Applepie · 13-01-2003 1:24am

Originally posted by PiE
Nah, let them keep it. Make it MiddleEastroVision so we can be rid of it once and for all.

But then what will the winner of your a star do? If (s)he's in the eurovision we're garaunteed(well almost) that we'll never hear of him/her again. But if they just get a record deal they could annoy us for months ala hear'say or 6

Dustaz · 13-01-2003 2:28am

Originally posted by DMC

Da dum da de daaa dum daaaaaaa de daaaa, da-dum da de dadada da dum da de da, da dum da de daaa dum daaaaaaa daaaa, da dum-de-dum-de daaaaaa, dum da!

They just dont write lyrics like that anymore

Bard · 13-01-2003 2:34am

Need to brush up on my Danish for work.

Hence this board suggestion get's my two thumbs up.

Can't see it being massively busy - but then again neither is the Gaeilge (Irish) board and it still serves it's purpose.

koneko · 13-01-2003 10:20am

The thing that confuses me is no replies from other Scandis...

They're hiding somewhere, we know they're out there.

naitkris · 13-01-2003 11:28am

some say us scandinavians, particularly swedes are bit shy, though i'd expect that not to be the case on an internet forum. oh well, i've got 10 votes (including myself) which is more than the required 5, so if any boards.ie admin reads this then maybe we could get the ball rolling perhaps?

cheers,

Naitkris

Illkillya · 14-01-2003 2:31am

Originally posted by naitkris
computer science

tjena slyna, what year? (i also do comp science in ucc)

Patman · 14-01-2003 11:05am

I'd be happy to give my vote. Det er altfor få skandinaver i Irland. Send flere.

Typedef · 14-01-2003 11:37am

"Please to help me, with my Rucksack".

naitkris · 14-01-2003 10:28pm

Originally posted by Illkillya
tjena slyna, what year? (i also do comp science in ucc)

i'm in 1st year, och du själv? kult att det finns andra skandinavier i datorvetenskap. det finns en norsk också i år 1.

Illkillya · 15-01-2003 5:31pm

jag är inte skandinavisk! I'm in 2nd year, and last year there was at least one Swedish person in the course. do you play quake?

Cloud · 16-01-2003 6:26pm

Approved.

naitkris · 17-01-2003 12:03am

Originally posted by Illkillya
do you play quake?

of course... also unreal (which seems to be the most popular among the other students) and pretty much any fps game since wolf 3d which i first played back in 1993 or something on my trusty old IBM PS/1.

oh, my forum is now up so you can start talking a little swedish if u like. btw, what happened to the swedes from last year?

Mercury_Tilt · 17-01-2003 8:51am

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ADD COMMUNITY - Skandinaviska Språk (Danish, Norwegian & Swedish)

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