Where is everybody from?

[knipplan]

@Carol, out of curiosity what words do you know in Swedish? 

[Carol the Dabbler]

Apparently not as many as I thought -- but smorgasbord and lingon(berry) are at least derived from Swedish.

 

A few other words that I thought might be Swedish turned out to be Danish or Norwegian instead -- akvavit, ski, smorrebrod, and skoal.

 

And I find that I do know at least one word from Finnish, after all -- sauna!

 

[Selena]

 

A few other words that I thought might be Swedish turned out to be Danish or Norwegian instead -- akvavit, ski, smorrebrod, and skoal.

 

Well, that is not really a bad thing, is it? After all, the Danish language is much better than the Swedish

 

[knipplan]

 

 

A few other words that I thought might be Swedish turned out to be Danish or Norwegian instead -- akvavit, ski, smorrebrod, and skoal.

 

Well, that is not really a bad thing, is it? After all, the Danish language is much better than the Swedish

 

 

 

Selena I'm not sure I agree, but having another Scandinavian around is rather nice tough!

 

Carol, it's skoal in Swedish too, but it's spelled skål 

[Selena]

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A few other words that I thought might be Swedish turned out to be Danish or Norwegian instead -- akvavit, ski, smorrebrod, and skoal.

Well, that is not really a bad thing, is it? After all, the Danish language is much better than the Swedish

 

Selena I'm not sure I agree, but having another Scandinavian around is rather nice tough!

 

Carol, it's skoal in Swedish too, but it's spelled skål

I would be quite surprised if you agreed, though I actually prefer Norwegian to Swedish and Danish. It is such a lovely language.

 

We spell it "skål" too, but I think that it is easier for foreigners to spell it "skoal".

[Carol the Dabbler]

So that little circle over the "a" is actually an "o"?  Wonder what the history of that is?

 

Reminds me of the Spanish letter "ñ" which was originally a double-n, but back when everything was written by hand, monks copying books would write one "n" over the other to save space on the expensive parchment.

 

[bowlwoman]

 

We are united by our common and very short (compared to yours) history.  But we've had our share of divisiveness, also.  Texas would probably be it's own country if you left it up to certain kinds of Texans! 

 

Truer words were never spoken, at least for some of the native Texans I know. I live in Austin, by way of Missouri and California. 

 

I didn't necessarily *want* to move to Texas when we decided to come here 12 years ago, but I LOVE Austin. The food, the music, the technology industry...it's a great town.

 

And I never admin my girls were born in Texas. They were born in Austin. NOT Texas.

[Selena]

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So that little circle over the "a" is actually an "o"?

 

 

No, "å" is a contraction of two a's. The letter is quite old, but we Danes had to wait till the mid-twentieth century before the use of "å" was "legalised".

Do you know when the Swedes started using it, Knipplan?

[Carol the Dabbler]

Ah, so the little circle over the "a" is a degenerate second "a" -- completely analogous to the tilde over the Spanish "n" -- interesting.

 

[Mary L]

Hello everyone!

I'm from Russia, Izhevsk. I don't think that anybody know about this little town. But I love it 

 

[Jane Holmes]

Oh, people here are really from whole the world! 

Mary, yeah, I looked for it in Google Maps, the town seems to be very lovely!  ^_^

I'm from Mykolaiv - a town in the south of Ukraine. It's near sea - just about an hour on bus  Also I visit Kyiv very often - my granny lives there. It's the capital of Ukraine. The city is wonderful, I love being there 

[Carol the Dabbler]

Jane, I can picture where you are pretty clearly now.  Thanks!

 

Mary, Russia is a really big country, and I don't know a lot about it -- can you tell us what part of it your small town is located in?  (I'm from a small town myself, by the way.)

 

[Mary L]

Carol, Russia is huge!

Have you ever heard about "Udmurtia"? This is republic and Izhevsk is a capital

[Carol the Dabbler]

Sorry, Mary -- geography was never my best subject!

 

Could you just tell me whether you're in the west part of Russia, or the east part -- and then whether you're in the north or the south -- or maybe right in the middle?  Thanks!

[Mary L]

Carol, it's on west of country

[Carol the Dabbler]

OK, thanks.  That helps! 

 

[High-Functioning-Fangirl]

Hi everyone! I'm from South-East England, unfortunately not close enough to London to watch the filming, but still reasonably close.

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Welcome to the Forum, High-Functioning-Fangirl!

[SH/LotR/Zelda Fan]

OMG High-Functioning-Fangirl I LOVE YOUR NAME!!! Sorry I just feel weirdly...weird at the moment

[Earendil]

I'm from Budapest, Hungary. I think the first Hungarian member who actually posts something. 

[Carol the Dabbler]

You may well be right about that, Earendil, I can't think of any others.  But in any case, welcome to Sherlock Forum!    Glad you found us!

 

[Earendil]

You may well be right about that, Earendil, I can't think of any others.  But in any case, welcome to Sherlock Forum!    Glad you found us!

Thank you, Carol. I'm also glad to be here.   

[Mary L]

Hi, Earendil! Oh, you're so lucky! I always wanted to go to Hungary And welcome to Sherlock Forum!

 

[Earendil]

Thank you, Mary! Спасибо! 

 

[Mary L]

It will be too good if you know the Russian