We're all Vikings. Deal with it or face the Danelaw.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121127094111.htm
Looks like se have copyright issue here, so pay up next time you open your mouth ;-)
A friend's dad is from Norway and came over to the States in his late 20s. Oddly, he some how is able to speak English with an American accent. I know that a lot of Scandinavians learn English in school, but the way he gets the inflections, tone and colonialism right is really something.
If you enjoy audio books and are interested in the evolution of language, I highly recommend this title:
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language
http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_2?asin=B002V1LN2U&qid=1354227837&sr=1-2
The narrator was top notch and I think I got a lot more from listening than I would have just from reading the printed page.
Bork Bork Bork!!
I knew there was I reason I liked killing, pillaging, and all those fav viking pastimes. Now, if we could just teach you guys some redneck.
>I know that a lot of Scandinavians learn English in school, but the way he gets the inflections, tone and colonialism right is really something.
They get it from the TV we pipe over.
QuoteFor example, all the lexical words in this sentence are Scandinavian: He took the knife and cut the steak. Only he, the and and come from Old English.
Fascinating..
My sister who studied speech pathology said that English also has a lot in common with some of the Indian (dot not feather) languages...
Fascinating article. I guess this should not surprise me since Modern English is such a hybrid language, but I never though the Scandinavian influence was so great.
They talk about the Danelaw lasting for about 50 years, but the raids by the Norse and smaller scale settlement were going on for many decades before, so even more time for the language to take root.
Every Scandi I've ever met has been a cunning linguist; or at least that's what their wives told me!
Quote from: JasonD on November 30, 2012, 01:58:27 PM
Every Scandi I've ever met has been a cunning linguist; or at least that's what their wives told me!
::) ...Actually, that is the perfect self-censoring joke -- either you get it or it will fly right past you.
How closely related are the Scandinavian languages, can a Norwegian understand a Dane, etc?
Pretty close
>How closely related are the Scandinavian languages
Very close.
We get Norwegian better than Swedish, but they also have their variations that Danes don't get. Vice versa, heck we even have local dialects here that I dont understand either.
But yes, Danes, Swedes and Norwegians would understand each other on a general note, but still a large number of words are different.
>I liked killing, pillaging, and all those fav viking pastimes
Hahaha, we also dig the Redneck fer sure :)
>They get it from the TV we pipe over.
Absolutely and the fact we do subtitles and not dubbing on TV, start teaching English in 2nd/3rd grade as well.
Heh Jason ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=U4_VpGMnSfg#t=79s