The Official Languages Thread

[Pytt]

Originally Posted by Nurvingiel

Not to nitpick Chrys, but Backwardia is a code, not a language.


I'm trying to transnate this joke I posted in the joke thread into Swedish:

Ingvar Kamprad, owner and founder of IKEA, is apparently the wealthiest person in the world. He will now use this money to buy some decent furniture.

Here's what I have:

Ingvar Kamprad, ägare och gjutare av IKEA, är tydligen personen mest förmögen i världen. Nu, han vill köpa några anständig möbler.

Originally, I had the second sentence as:

Han vill köpa några anständig möbler med hans pengar.

but I think it's funnier this way.

Since I have nothing else to do, here is how it would have been in Norwegian

Ingvar Kamprad, eier og gründer av IKEA, er tydeligvis den rikeste personen i verden. Nå skal han kjøpe noen annstendige møbler.

[Nurvingiel]

There really are a lot of similarities between Swedish and Norwegian.

The Norwegian "ø" seems to equal the Swedish "ö", is that right? I recognized some of the words in your translation too.

[Pytt]

Yes, the norwegian ø are the same as ö. also the norwegian letter å is the same as ä.
It's really similar. If you speak, or write one of them, it's easy to recognize the other.

[Jonathan]

Originally Posted by Nurvingiel

Ingvar Kamprad, owner and founder of IKEA, is apparently the wealthiest person in the world. He will now use this money to buy some decent furniture.

Ingvar Kamprad, ägare och grundare av IKEA, är tydligen den rikaste personen i världen. Nu ska han köpa några anständiga möbler.

A quick note - since IKEA is a foundation, the money isn't really his
Compare the Swedish sentence to what Pytt wrote and see how similar they are.

Originally Posted by Pytt

Yes, the norwegian ø are the same as ö. also the norwegian letter å is the same as ä.

You mean æ is the same as ä
- å is the same letter in both languages.

[Embladyne]

Ich kann nichts schlafen oder denken.

Wo lianxi zhongwen fayin, yufa, ye hanzi. Wo xie bu hao kan. Zuotian you hanzi kaoshi.

Und Ich kann schreiben nichts.

I have really horrible grammar, no matter what language it is. And I say weird things. It's true that I can't sleep, though...and I have a chinese quiz tommorow.

[Grey_Wolf]

Originally Posted by Nurvingiel

Not to nitpick Chrys, but Backwardia is a code, not a language.


I'm trying to transnate this joke I posted in the joke thread into Swedish:

Ingvar Kamprad, owner and founder of IKEA, is apparently the wealthiest person in the world. He will now use this money to buy some decent furniture.

Here's what I have:

Ingvar Kamprad, ägare och gjutare av IKEA, är tydligen personen mest förmögen i världen. Nu, han vill köpa några anständig möbler.

Originally, I had the second sentence as:

Han vill köpa några anständig möbler med hans pengar.

but I think it's funnier this way.

Nice, nurv.

[Pytt]

Originally Posted by Jonathan

Compare the Swedish sentence to what Pytt wrote and see how similar they are.
You mean æ is the same as ä
- å is the same letter in both languages.

Yes, off course. I didn't remember. So ø is the same as ö, æ is the same as ä and å is the same in both.

[Nurvingiel]

I'll remember that if I ever have to try to read some Norwegian. Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish are all so alike, and yet... so not... aaa!

Originally Posted by Grey_Wolf

Nice, nurv.

Are you suggesting... I translated that properly!? (Or are you just being kind? Feel free to nitpick my grammar. Even the smallest thing. )

[Jonathan]

Originally Posted by Nurvingiel

Ingvar Kamprad, ägare och grundare av IKEA, är tydligen den mest förmögne personen i världen. Nu vill han köpa några anständiga möbler.

...

Han vill köpa några anständiga möbler med sina pengar

Your Swedish is fully comprehensible, just a few things to correct. "Gjutare" is a person who founds metals, the word you were looking for is "grundare" (founder) . Then we often have a reversed word order, with the verb before the noun. This can be hard to get right sometimes

[Nurvingiel]

Ah yes. I see now. Sometimes it's hard looking things up in a dictionary.

I think I get all my mistakes, except, why "den" instead of "personen"?

I recently learned the rule about adjectives - if the noun if "ett", add a "t", if it's "en", leave it alone, and if it's plural, add an "a".

[Jonathan]

"Den" is a demonstrative pronoun, that is a pronoun that points out an intended referent. It's THAT person (DEN personen) and not just A person (EN person). Do you follow?

[Last Child of Ungoliant]

can someone translate the following phrase into norwegian for me please?

Nice gallery, do you mind if I watch?

[Artanis]

Hi Chrys! It would be easier if I knew in which context you're going to say that, but I hope this will be ok:
Pent galleri, er det greit at jeg ser på?

[Last Child of Ungoliant]

thanks arty, it is for deviantART, someone i am going to put on my friends list

[Artanis]

Ok, I saw the drawings of you, they were really great.

Can you do me a favour back and tell me what "slainte mhath", "slan leath" and "Sraid Mabbot" means? I think it is gaelic, but I'm not sure ...

[Last Child of Ungoliant]

off the top of me head i aint totally sure, i will see if i can find out

[Artanis]

Thanks, but there's no need to stress yourself, it's not that important.
Marillion has a song called "Slainte mhath", and the other two are phrases from Ulysses by James Joyce.

[Last Child of Ungoliant]

i expect fenir lacdanan would know

[Artanis]

Yeah but he's never here when he's needed.
Feeeeeniiiir....!!!

[Last Child of Ungoliant]

courtesy of English - Irish Dictionary:
slainte - (n)health, toast
slan -(n)cheerio, farewell, goodbye, (adj) intact, safe, unharmed, unhurt, whole (adv) [arrive] safely,
leath - (n) half
Sráid - (n) street