So, I have one final week of vacation left for now and I'm going to �land, an island next to Sweden and catch fish, chicks and sun! I will be gone for all of 192 hours, give or take. Try not to tear the place down!
(That goes for you too, Jeff, in the name of mighty biff)
Posted by My Publically Displayed Name (Member # 256) on :
Just remember, fish and sun don't bite back when you catch 'm, chicks OTOH have been known to do it Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
how do you pronounce "�land"? And what is the '�' called? like the the � is nyeh and the squiggley line is a tilde
or � is c cedilla... and sounds like ssss as in Fran�ois.
I'm also curious about:
� and �
Posted by MeGotBeer (Member # 411) on :
BIFF!!!!!
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Have a lot of fun, Nimrod! Good luck on catching stuff (especially the chicks). Posted by Nimrod (Member # 205) on :
Well, �land is certainly not as backwards as I thought, they do have cybercaf�'s!
The � is kind of like o as in "born", but the english pronounciation can't do it properly, I'm afraid. � is almost like the u in burn but of course it can sound differently in different contexts. The ferries have lots of liquor and gerls, both taxfree, and I'm off to a skeetshooting range, also said to have regular pistols. Teehee! In other words, all things biff.
Seeya in 5, I love ya, crew!
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
I feel a lot of emotion in the room.
Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :
The "u" in "burn" is silent, though. And the "o" in "born" is just a regular o...
Posted by MeGotBeer (Member # 411) on :
Wow. The emotion in this room is so thick you could cut it with a butter knife.
Oh, wait, I just did.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"The 'u' in 'burn' is silent, though."
Erm... No. "Burn" != "brn". Not the way I've ever heard anyone speak, anyway.
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
quote: Erm... No. "Burn" != "brn".
DAMN, you beat me to it!
Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :
Fine, how do you say it? I've only ever heard it with the postalveolar approximant as the sole vowel sound.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
When did you swallow a dictionary Frank?
If I had to approximate, it sounds more like "Bern". Or "Bearn". But the "U" in "burn" sounds nothing like the "U" in "hum".
Posted by Nimrod (Member # 205) on :
Well, I'm back. I got a tan, about seven litres of taxfree strong stuff (It got kind of freaky when I payed for the goodies, got the receipt and it ended with "Total: 666.00"), some clothes and a disgusting cold. It's going away juuust before I start working again, great huh? Well, I got some great R&R so I can't complain.
Now, the O with the stripe across is the norwegian/danish version of �. The � is not called anything special because it's just another letter here, as is � and �.
� is easy, sounds like the a in "cat". The � can be like both the o in "born" or in "pond", it depends on the word. The � also has two ways of pronounciation, the easy one being like the e in "herd". But the other way simply doesn't exist in any english language or dialect. I don't write in true phonetical so I don't know how to describe it. And I won't make a .wav with me singing the letter � to you, you shameless turnips!!!
Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :
The e in herd is not pronounced; if it were, it would sound like "haird." Are you thinking of a rounded front vowel, as in German?
Posted by Nimrod (Member # 205) on :
Yes, it's not a very pronounced E, is it? All the nordic languages are sisters of the germanian language tree and yes, the germans also use � and � in much the same way.
Posted by Nimrod (Member # 205) on :
AndrewR: Where did you find "�"??? I've never seen that symbol and we sure as hell don't use it actively. Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :
The eth is what the th in "Aethelwer" should be, actually. It is used in, among others, Old English and Icelandic, and represents a voiced dental fricative (th in "the," for example).
