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Subject:    Re: [Flightgear-users] Wow.
From:       Arnt Karlsen <arnt () c2i ! net>
Date:       2002-04-17 19:12:14
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On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:13:40 -0500 (CDT), 
"Curtis L. Olson" <curt@flightgear.org> wrote in message 
<15549.37156.884513.535344@crunch.me.umn.edu>:
> 
> Arnt Karlsen writes:
> > On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:01:40 +0200, 
> > "Roger Andreassen" <fgrandsen@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
> > <F74bqg2NL5JAR6Zysr80001ec7a@hotmail.com>:
> > 
> > > Curt wrote:
> > > >
> > > >We have a guy here from Tromsø working on our driving sim.  I'll
> > > >have to give hime the ENTC demo.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > Catch him in a friendly mood, utter "ka du trur" and watch the
> > > reaction. 
> > 
> > .."kah doo troor", "k" as in '|k|ey', "a" as in '|a|ha', "du" 
> > as in 'doo', "tru" as in '|tru|th' and "r" as in 't|r|uth'.  
> > 
> > 
> > ..another test: "ka du sei" -> "ka doo say" whenever you want 
> > opinions.  ;-)
> > 
>
> Can you give me a little hint as to what these mean before I go
> attempt to embarrass myself. :-)
> 
> Curt.

..I did, di pysa.  I also assumed midwestern pronounciation.  
Ask him.  Then advice him "Harsta' e' bæst."  ;-)

..before I forget: our 'r' a subtly rolling r, much like but less 
than the german "r". "y" is a vocal, like a-e-i-o-u-y-æ-ø-å.  I'm 
told Y is unique to the Scandinavian lingos, the closest I know of, 
is the german "ü" and the french y (i-greque?). 

..a-e-i-o-u-y-æ-ø-å, a as in "Alpha", e Echo, i India, o Oscar, 
u Uniform (not YUniform), y hankY pankY (the closest I came up 
with, nån bedre?), æ bAd dAd, ø Ugly bIrd, and, å AWEsome hAWk.  

..our "j" == your 'y', so "juniform" == 'yuniform' || "uniform".  
Our 'n' or 'nn' prepended by vocals a-e-o-u-å is always a ñ, like in 
spanish seÑor, easily confused with "nj" in "Senja"=='Sæñya'.  Same 
vocal modification happens before "l", which and how, depends on where 
you come from.  ;-)  

..depending on how you define 'nation' and 'language', we have 7 major 
norse norwegian (and 21? lapp and 1? quæn), 2 offical scriptures and 
5 dialects, or 7 scandinavian dialects, by  the american, norwegian, 
scandinavian and european, mainly politically motivated 'definitions', 
or opinions.  The 2 official ones has also made it into locales, no_NN 
and no_BM, aka nynorsk aka vestlandsk, and bokmål aka østlandsk as 
spoken in western parts of Oslo, and in norwegianized Lapp areas of 
Finnmark.  The other 4 are sørlandsk, down south, trønder in Trøndelag 
and møring in Møre squized in between Trøndelag and Vestlandet, and 
bergenser in Bergen (not Børgen).  ;-).

..to learn the closest we have of a standard 'nor'lænning' from books, 
you want the books on Oluf Raillkattli.  Also available "on tape for 
the deaf", I believe.  ;-)


..ps: "nån bedre?"=='anyone who knows better?', for the un-initiated.

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.

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