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I've had a good day up until now, it's rant time!
This is a rant on swedish.
I don't know how many of you have ever been on a swedish forum. Well I visit them quite often but every single god damned time I can't leave without being a little bit frustrated. People aren't using swedish as much as they are abusing it.
In swedish there is a thing called särskriving [saihr-skreevning it's pronounced sort of]. It's when you take a swedish word which is composed of two separate words like skumtomte whichs translates to foam gnome, a swedish candy, and writes them apart. It then becomes something like skum tomte whichs translates to weird gnome or weird santa. This pisses me off more than it should.
If you look past that the meaning of the word changes, it feels to me when I'm reading it like the sentence pauses right in the middle of it. It is so annoying.
Here's a short list of särskrivningar that are quiet funny but stupid:
Giftorm - Poisonous snake
Gift orm - Married snake
Rökfritt - Area where you can not smoke
Rök fritt - Smoke freely
Felmeddelande - Message which tells you that something is wrong
Fel meddelande - the wrong message
The list goes on and on and on and on.....
I stopped hating it a while ago but it still pisses me off!
/rant
In other news my local hockey team won, Go Luleå Hockey!
Then stuff happened which made me a bit sad but will probably bore the shit out of you (if this didn't do it already) but ranting really helps.
Good night folks!
 
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Haha I get most of these, and they often apply to norwegian too. Yeah, whenever I talk to friend online it's kind of butchered Norwegian... I dunno what it is, but I just can't be bothered, I know they understand what i'm saying anyway 
In fact, spending so much time online and around English, I ironically am better at English than Norwegian, and often find myself searching for a forgotten word in Norwegian that I remember in English T,T
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I'm a Luleå fan aswell. :X
What did the score end up being? Didn't see last period.
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On October 09 2011 05:36 gillon wrote:
I'm a Luleå fan aswell. :X
What did the score end up being? Didn't see last period.
2-1 Olausson scored a beautiful goal
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On October 09 2011 05:37 Jhuyt wrote:Show nested quote +On October 09 2011 05:36 gillon wrote:
I'm a Luleå fan aswell. :X
What did the score end up being? Didn't see last period. 2-1 Olausson scored a beautiful goal
Sweet!
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On October 09 2011 05:30 marttorn wrote:
In fact, spending so much time online and around English, I ironically am better at English than Norwegian, and often find myself searching for a forgotten word in Norwegian that I remember in English T,T
AGREE! Oh my god, so good to see that I'm not alone! Growing up with computers, thus spending a lot of time on games, forums, movies/tv-series etc, I feel like I can explain certain things better in english. I often find myself thinking about which word to use when explaining something in norwegian, and at the same time thinking "Why can't i just explain this in english...."
Thumbs up.
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edit: terrible terrible damage!
my fauvorite:
sjuksköterska = nurse
sjuk sköterska
=sick nurse (kind of, you can use only sköterska to describe nurse)
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Why would they add spaces to words that don't have them? I would have thought the opposite would be more likely - people not putting spaces because they are lazy
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On October 09 2011 06:19 BlackJack wrote:
Why would they add spaces to words that don't have them? I would have thought the opposite would be more likely - people not putting spaces because they are lazy
They're combined words.
Gift = Poison
Orm = Snake
Because the word is really made up of two words, some people think there should be a space.
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On October 09 2011 06:19 BlackJack wrote:
Why would they add spaces to words that don't have them? I would have thought the opposite would be more likely - people not putting spaces because they are lazy
The English language doesn't combine words to create new ones but Swedish does that all the time, thus you don't have that problem. For example "high school", read literary it sounds like the school is tall or drugged so in Swedish we would create a compound word "highschool" to show that the parts shouldn't be read separately.
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It's the same in Norway. I really hate orddelingsfeil.
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Haha, I feel you man. Särskrivningar can really annoy me, especially when the people doing them seem to not even know it's incorrect =P
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Those actually exist in Finnish too, since so many words are compound words. Makes the writer look uneducated when they do those kind of errors...
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Five stars. lol :>
also its true, i think its because alot of swedes mix english into the language today. And in english, writing words separatelly is pretty much common praxis.
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Go Luleå Hockey! Lmao skum tomte XD
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Well sär skrivning (lol) can be very silly and it is so very different from english, so when I've been writing a lot of english and then go back to swedish I am the biggest särskrivare = )
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On October 09 2011 19:01 zeru wrote:
I've said it before and I will say it again. As a swede I think swedish is an overall terrible language. But the one thing which is worse is särskrivare.
May I ask why you think Swedish is a terrible language?
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On October 09 2011 19:57 zeru wrote:Show nested quote +On October 09 2011 19:28 Nible wrote:On October 09 2011 19:01 zeru wrote:
I've said it before and I will say it again. As a swede I think swedish is an overall terrible language. But the one thing which is worse is särskrivare. May I ask why you think Swedish is a terrible language? I think it's mainly the illogical rules I don't like, sure every language has their part of rules that are confusing to learn but I dislike the swedish ones most. The whole en/ett gender for nouns thing is really bad, while the english a/an actually makes sense. The language overall is also really bad and just insufficient in the field of computer science, thankfully it wasn't used much at all in the university I studied at and english was the main language used.
I do think that swedish has a limited vocabulary but I still love swedish more than any other language in the world. I'm totally not biased
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