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Former Member
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Do you notice how I quote your words so you know am talking to you? Yes I do. ![]() ![]() In fact you have been very good at that, far better than me ![]() |
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Do you notice how I quote your words so you know am talking to you? Yes I do. ![]() ![]() In fact you have been very good at that, far better than me ![]() ![]() |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
- on the other hand, I'm pretty good at using your name, BladeD, so that you'll know
----------------------------------------whether I'm talking to you or to youse. nap is doing his research and found the website belonging to Fossaw's present captain. Those pictures are so worth looking at. Just one example ![]() The captain is German. He's my captain now ![]() See you again, Kraland, SeriousCrunchers ..... EDIT: Sent Curnen, the captain, a message from his website. He has a SNURK sign ![]() ![]() [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at May 23, 2018 3:24:10 AM] |
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Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
No reply to the mail I sent.
----------------------------------------<Off topic> You SOMEHWERE asked about mormor and morfar the words in English, I thought about this and wanted to contribute but can't find it. It would be off topic here. [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at May 23, 2018 3:49:39 AM] |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Fossaw, I have never come upon anything that would be off topic here.
----------------------------------------Anything goes. Only ErikaT has happened to break in and take a very interesting discussion in the bud. That was one about gun laws. keithhenry made me understand why I should accept this case of limiting Freedom of Speech with a post filled with his own sadness ... I just began to read 'Den 2. amerikanske borgerkrig' - it means 'The second American Civil War'. Anyhow, post what you want, no off topics here, and remember for the sake of the Americans: We are a family forum, we are Politically Correct, and we walk on cat paws around the Second Amendment. Now morfar/mormor and farfar/farmor, yes, I wondered somewhere, but forgot where. I still want to know, so if you have input, please ![]() EDIT: Just thought of this. The text with some comments is here. You may have been Danish long enough to know the subtleties of the language. We are able to and we do like to write/say things between the lines so to speak and thereby circumvent some Political Correctness and such ... making sure that Freedom of Speech is not a blonde completely robbed of her clothing [Edit 4 times, last edit by Former Member at May 23, 2018 9:34:52 AM] |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Now this is what I call a captain!
Here is Matthias's kind answer ![]() - and it came within 5 hours, mark you Public Libraries of America ![]() Hello Anne-Lise, Sure, you may join and retire from the team anytime you want. However I am not keeping track of any scores or benchmarks, which do not matter to me at all, so if you hadn't written me an e-mail I would probably not even have noticed that sudden gain in points. Furthermore I have to disappoint you guys, but the team (or I for that matter) is not located on the Falkland Islands. I have just chosen it, because I have spent some nice weeks there and they are home to a few hounded-thousands of penguins from four species. So I can't offer you guys a couch for an overnight stay or a lift in a car when you visit the Falklands for your trek. Nevertheless enjoy your stay there and greet the penguins Matthias ![]() |
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Former Member
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Fair enough, you asked for it. I speak from personal experience, I believe what I say is general to the rest of the land though. I have a mother and father, (he died, in 2008, but that is not relevent). but speaking to them or informally with others, anyone really, I would call my mother "mum" and my father "dad". My, for example, mum had a mother, and she would officially, or in high English be called my maternal grandmother, but she would also be my mums mum, mormor. You can see, I hope, how that would work, not a single word perhaps but mums mum, and mormor are kind of alike. Does that help?
----------------------------------------<edit> Hmmm, he didn't answer me... [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at May 23, 2018 12:39:26 PM] |
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Former Member
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Yes, it does, Fossaw. So would it be pop's pop for farfar?
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
No. Pop is even less formal than dad, rather an Americanism. Oddly, I remember calling my mothers father grand dad. It was a long time ago, but I think thats right, I should have thought mums dad would be more correct. My family is rather odd. I knew my mothers parents and her three brothers with their wives and kids, but my fathers side was never talked about, even when one of my paternal cousins was in the same year as me at the same school, often in the same class. I was never given reasons for this, and had no interest in pursuing it.
----------------------------------------Penguins are cool, pretty cold in fact most of the time. I've seen penguins on the Galapagos Islands when I was there, the weather is MUCH warmer there, but the sea is pretty cold due to the Humboldt current from Antarctica. I don't recall seeing them at Ushaia though. I DO find penguins interesting. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at May 23, 2018 2:58:07 PM] |
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Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
To take the family nouns a bit further, Danish has distinct nouns for your mother's sister and brother
and similarly for your father's sister and brother: moster, morbror faster, farbror The spouses of these relatives would be uncle and aunt: onkel, tante These words are, unfortunately in my opinion, not used much any more. I like them because they have this precision in them. I think they are all uncles and aunts in English whether they are original family or family by marriage. One more: cousins in English are both male and female. In Danish we have one for each sex: kusine is the female offspring of your fathers' and mothers' siblings, and fætter is the male. I always wondered how come the English language which otherwise - I'm told has a larger vocabulary than Danish, is this measly with family words. Plus I still think you should buy a word to express second person plural. I like penguins, too. On the sail trip we had on the Beagle Channel from Ushuaia to Estancia Haberton we passed a couple of islands full of penguins, sea lions and walruses. We went back by bus and we lucky to view a condor. |
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