If you could learn another language, what would it be and why?

It does.  Well, not right now. But pretty consistently.

It's "tiddelibom".

Ok,....... tiddlebom ! still love it someone find it & wap it up again !

Ok, since you asked.

I do so love that song.


How in the name of all that is sacred is "kjøpe" pronounced?

Thanks Blue !!

Ive no idea what she is saying but, it sounds the happiest song ive heard !

I wish we could get a video of her actually performing it.

halfwise wrote:I do so love that song.


How in the name of all that is sacred is "kjøpe" pronounced?

Now that depends on your dialect!

Ok, um... take Chu like in churn + and Pe like in Petty, and say Chu-pe. No silent e's.
Should be about right... depending in your American/English dialect/accent of course.

Why couldn't you just spell it right to begin with?

halfwise wrote:Why couldn't you just spell it right to begin with?

We do, it's just you poor fools who never learn how to pronounce letters.

If you'd just stop scribbling all over perfectly good letters we'd have an easier time!

Bluebottle wrote:Now, for all the time you english speakers on here has spent around norwegians, noone wants to learn norwegian? How is one to interpret that exactly?

We've got all you guys here and you're better than Google Translate. Why would we need to learn Fjordian?

halfwise wrote:Why couldn't you just spell it right to begin with?

To be fair, if it was spelled "chupe", I don't think any of us would have pronounced it right anyway.

halfwise wrote:If you'd just stop scribbling all over perfectly good letters we'd have an easier time!

Vietnamese is written using a variant of the Roman alphabet, but whoever was in charge of that adaptation had a serious addiction to diacritics. To wit:

http://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trang_Ch%C3%ADnh

đại úy Đỗ Hữu Vị được nhiều tài liệu ghi nhận là người Việt Nam đầu tiên lái máy bay chiến đấu?

Oh for crying out loud.....  

i always wished I had learned my countries native tongue Gaelic.
But it just was not taught when I was young in fact it was actively frowned upon, as was talking in 'scots'.
I had sadly imagined it had died out in my family with the passing of my grandfather on my fathers side, he was the last who spoke it in our line.
But my brothers girls are taught and speak it well now. And that makes me very happy to see it beginning again in the family line.

Eldorion wrote:

Bluebottle wrote:Now, for all the time you english speakers on here has spent around norwegians, noone wants to learn norwegian? How is one to interpret that exactly?

We've got all you guys here and you're better than Google Translate.  Why would we need to learn Fjordian?

For det ha gjort det steikje mykje enklare å skjønt ka vi snakka om.

For det ha gjort det steikje mykje enklare å skjønt ka vi snakka om

"For that [I] have got the stalking mink enslaved and skint off the snake..um..."

I'm not sure I even want to know you Fjordians are talking about sometimes. You're welcome to your own perversions, we'll just imagine you're talking about soda pop and sliced fruit.

....
finast parfymen va lukta tå olje og sjø!
...

Well, since you insisted on shovelling on the labor, I enlisted the help of Google translate for this one.  I'm not making up what came out:

"Finast fragrance va smell toe oil and sea!"

And that was the most comprehensible bit.
No, no...you are welcome to keep your thoughts to yourself: keep them encrypted, keep them safe.

You were getting pretty close on the last one, Halvklok.

Finast parfymen va lukta tå olje og sjø = The loveliest perfume was the smell of oil and seawater. It's a song about a guy who goes off to the sea and leaves his girl behind Very beautiful song, if I may say so.

No one was beautiful like you that day when I left
We were both too shy to say good bye

Sounds better in trøndersk

but...but...what about the toe oil?!

tå (toe) is also dialect for 'av'/of

Mhm. I would say "ta".

Also, if it really had been toe oil, it would have said tåolje in one word.

I'm more inclined to believe Fjordians find toe oil to be romantic than Google Translate is capable of missing a translation due to context.

Shyly he handed her a small wrapped bottle.  She looked at him in surprise. "Go ahead, open it", he prodded.  Gingerly she peeled back the wrappings, then caught her breath.

"The finest Trondheim Toe Oil!" he said proudly.  "For me?" she gasped, then burst into tears.