Yes, but it shows the common origin of the languages. All the best! Raimo K Personal photography homepage at: http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
----- Original Message ----- From: "DagT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: PESO: Djupvasshytta
This is a dangerous way to understand another language :-)
All related languages have some similar words with similar meaning, but sometimes they have different meanings.
Gate = "port", not "gate" which is "street" in English
and
Sky = "Himmel", not "sky" which is "cloud" in English (some say that with the weather in Britain this is an understandable misunderstanding :-)
Some other common mistakes: "eventually" is not "eventuelt", and "actually" is not "aktuelt".
Using the word "travel" will get different misunderstandings in English, French and Norwegian...
DagT
P� 12. feb. 2005 kl. 11.57 skrev Jens Bladt:
Not all Scandinavian (Norway, Sweden, Denmark) words are similar to the English ones. They are all germanic languages, though. Before the middle ages I guess the English and the Scandinavians could easily understand eachother. I guess the North Sea is responsable for this :-) Many basic words are still very similar: Eye = �je Hand = h�nd/hand Finger = finger House = hus Nose = n�se Arm = Arm Knee = kn� Foot = fod Horse = hest Waggon = vogn Cat = kat Water = vand Sea = S� Drink = drik etc. etc. Bite = bid The list seems to go on for ever.
After the middle ages, where the nations were kinda closed, the languages
developed differently.
The English language got a lot of foreign influence (French and Latin i.e.).
I dont know the origin of the Scaninavian word laks (salmon).
I like (Peters) photograph. Beautiful!
Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt
-----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Peter Lacus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 11. februar 2005 16:37 Til: [email protected] Emne: Re: PESO: Djupvasshytta
Hello P�l,
Norwegian is about the closest thing you can find to english. Djup = deep; Vass = water; Hytta = hut. Simple isn't it?
thanks, it seems so clear now! But where does word "laks" come from? ;-)
Bedo. -- P.S. I'm not good at English so I won't probably benefit from such similarities, though. :-(
