One more post without a label
- just travelling along ...
These 'f's, 'v's, and 'w's are just about as difficult as the zeemeermin & Co. part.
but during the night Tinkerbell sprinkled an idea into my head. "You have the English Wiktionary and the German one," she said. "Why don't you take a look and a listen to the Dutch one". I hate to admit not having thought of that myself.
thank you Tinkerbell.

It used to be so easy (the shoe song), listening to pronunciations on Wiktionary. You KLiK the loudspeaker and they talk. No, no, not so for the Dutch one. This morning it wanted me to download a file. An .OGG file. Never heard of it, and it also did not talk to me, it wouldn't even open! Well, many hours have passed and something has been fixed at NL-Wiktionary, so now I can listen to 'hoef', 'huis', and 'huisvrouw' ... I just wish it were a little beetje easier 'en lille bitte smule'; you can construct a half diminutive in Danish, well, it's normal to say so, I just wear my diminutive spectacles, or have become diminutive perceptive.

Every step that I take, every word that I read, I feel like discussing. Take lesson 1 from our language school which you introduced last night. The Dutch part. Just one single line of degree of comparison.
slecht/erg-slechter/erger-slechtst/ergst
It's the 'erg' part that catches my attention. In Danish we have 'ærgerlig' meaning ungefähr 'too bad' not really 'bad' but somewhat, rather 'bothersome/irritating/annoying'
Well, how fast do we cover our territory this way, adriverhoef?

Why don't we just bring one more variety into play, as if we didn't have enough on our plate already.
The real wordplay in the line of
Bagspace
a webshop selling bags, backpacs usw. I noticed today. A very elegant name in my opinion. Made me almost want to shop.
K9
which puzzled me in New York and turned out to be Polician for canine. Policedog police patrol. Only to be found out by talking aloud to yourself. In English.
It's such a thrill when the AHA-Erlebniss kicks in.

Yesteday I gave you a fairly lousy playlist of Danish songs. We can do better. I have made notes of songs of a far better - in my opinion - quality, and which I actually enjoy listening to, something I do not do much (concentration/distraction issue), so therefore I need to praktizieren. You will get the links allmählich but here is one for a start - Out of It which I listened to a lot and forgot and had to dig deep to find again.
- and I'm glad I did - I actually went five years back here on WCG where I knew I had it
and your recipe for posting still works. Soon it will be a life jacket I will wear as a habit it means a 'men's suit/Anzug in Danish.
Thank you very much

EDIT: Fixed the dead song link

About the Danish Top 20 …Quite! Good stuff from the 60s and 70s. Paloma Blanca, Mississippi, Ring Ring, Dingedong, We are going down Jordan, Hucklebuck, all well recognized and deserved their place and position into that top 280.
Agreed, I found at least one occasion where "de" was inserted with JOHANN Jacob de Mylius, born in Denmark, from father Peter Bentzon Benzon Mylius and mother Magdalene Margrethe Hollmann Holman, as I understand it from that result.

The name looks a bit like 'molshoop' in Dutch (molehill). (Also, 'hoop' in Dutch means hope and has the same pronunciation.) The English 'hill' would be 'heuvel' in Dutch and 'Hügel' in German. (KLiK, are you listening?)

Yes, I think this isit must be the same word as the Dutch 'ergerlijk' (DEU: ärgerlich), derived from the word 'ergeren' (German: ärgern, E: to annoy, to irritate).

Wordt vervolgd (To be continued)
ctrl-A, ctrl-C, Preview, EDIT: ctrl-A, ctrl-V, Preview, Reply to the post

A short one
- one can always hope
Well, not that I technically would have been able to, but I would have weeded that playlist a bit, but never mind.
Paloma Blanca I once stayed at a Gasthaus in Germany a Saturday night. They had a wedding party going on downstairs. Live music. No sound proofing. The wedding guests were unbelievably fond of Paloma Blanca until 4 a.m. You will understand a certain allergic reaction. Same thing goes for "Pretty Woman", but that is quite a different story as Hans Christian Andersen would have said.

What I meant to say in this short post was:
I have a word you will hardly find in your mainstream sources.
Skabstysker. Closet German*.
You will notice the reference to homosexuals who have not yet announced their preferences openly.
*EDIT: The word also implies respecting the functionality of how our neighbors get things done and create efficient order around themselves. It is by no means poking fun of the Germans - rather poking fun of ourselves for being unable to cross that treshold of admitting to our true character. But then again. We want the admiration of our neighbor to the right. Sweden (and perhaps Norway, too).

Same thing perhaps goes for you when you dig down into the Myliuses, and certainly for me (don't tell, I have to think of our reputation in Sweden) when I Google the bands, you link to & find the lyrics for them just to be sure.
pssst ..... has your company any job openings?

You see, Danes (and I think I could include one Dutchman) like to be regarded as relaxed. Laid back. Laissez faire. The Swedes buy it, and to keep them happy we play the part.
The world is a stage, and each must play a part (I think, no: I know. I just checked. Hush! ) [Elvis Presley]
But deep, deep down at the very bottom we are gründlich like the Germans, only it must not show!
Hush! Don't tell anybody, please

Thought the word could complement ’worstkaasscenario’ even as it is quite another stripe. And talking of stripes: Have you any idea what a man shedding tears over two tigers does to a woman?

Ergerlijk
Yup. Same thing. We also have ’arg’ which is a very old form and seldomly used for getting angry with someone in an evil way. Gründlich angry.

Wordt vervolgd
Now, what's that?

ctrl-A, ctrl-V, Preview, Reply to the post

You ain't taught me no ctrl-V
EDIT: A typo and a clarification which I hope do not muddle more than it clarifies.
EDIT: Elvis lives!

Brilliant!

It's very good to hear that the songs I picked 'exactly fit your street' (just up your alley), I'll try not to overload you with my handpicked songs as they arrive by associative brain processes.

The eerie orange/yellowish sky was noted here, too, it was so strange suddenly, the sun tried to shine, but it wasn't more than a pitiful, watery, soft orange little sun ('zonnetje'), strongly dimmed; it wasn't bright yellow, it was reddish orange. There were two smoke layers, according to the weatherman, one at I believe 1.5 km and one at 3 km. There were hardly any clouds, but the sky was grey, even brownish/yellowish almost all day due to the smoke from the wildfires in Portugal and Spain and dust from Sahara-sand (coming from sandstorms in Africa).

I'm not lying! http://www.meteodelfzijl.nl/jm3/index.php/eur...duisteren-nederlandse-zon even reports that the temperature was near 26°C in the south of the Netherlands. Normal in NL would be 10.7°C for October (2016: 9.9°C). (((Highest temperature ever in NL: 38.6°C, lowest ever: -27.4°C.)))

Marco Verhoef (meteorologist for the Royal Dutch national Meteorologic Institute (KNMI) in De Bilt) would like to talk to you! I don't know him personally, he's one of the weathermen on the three Dutch national TV channels.

No music link
OK, one then: Sunny girl (with sunglasses - and there pops up another song, so let's quickly finish this off, else it will go on and on and on).

EDIT: (repair the text, select-all, copy (ctrl-C), Preview, WRONG, select-all, paste (ctrl-V), Reply)

Urgent installment
- the devil lies in the detail of idioms

I'm not lying!

No, you’re not. And I didn’t mean to imply that at all.
I asked you because I had a feeling it would mean that to you and to most people indeed, and found it interesting to ask.
Such a smilie can mean diffrent things to different people(s).

I thought you would think Pinocchio’s nose growing long when he lied which would be the normal interpretation. To me it could do so, too, but only by a stretch, because to me it means first and foremost ’at få en lang næse’ (to get a long nose) which doesn’t make sense unless it is explained - and even so, maybe not.

This idiom
and aren’t idioms one of the most difficult disciplines when learning a second/third/fourth language?
– well, this idiom rather means that something passes you by – passes by your nose – you don’t get what you hoped for – you feel a little cheated, somewhat let down. You get sad.
But it never means to lie.
No, I always trust people until they may happen to prove untrustworthy - and then
Let's take a song: I believe the music is Italian, and I love that beat. I'm sure it must have been made in the Netherlands as well.
Hvor skal vi sove i nat?/Where Are We Going to Sleep Tonight?
No beating around the bush there