Ville bara se hur många vi var.
Posted by St. Yogi (Member # 5974) on :
Ikke så mange tror jeg. Kanskje maks 10. Jeg er fra Norge, forresten.
Posted by Zeugma (Member # 6636) on :
Flugufrelsarinn
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Some Translation Site:
Title: People från (from?) North , look does not hit.
M: Savage bare-armed see hur många we stayed.
St Yogi: No matter saw a good many believing I. May maximal 10. I'm at Norway , come to think of it.
My Translation:
Title: People from the North, come in here.
M: We are still savage bare-armed hairy people!
St Yogi: I think there are a bunch of people. Maximum 10. I'm from/in Norway, come to think of it.
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
Krumkake! Trondheim! A-Ha!
Okay, I'm sorry. I'll stop. Posted by St. Yogi (Member # 5974) on :
edit: This is what was actually said:
quote:Title: People from the north, look here.
quote:Mahabarata(In Swedish): Just wanted to see how many we are.
quote:St. Yogi(In Norwegian): I don't think there are that many. Maximum 10. I'm from Norway, by the way.
Close, Teshi
[ April 14, 2005, 11:23 AM: Message edited by: St. Yogi ]
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Well, don't just say close! What did you actually say?
Posted by St. Yogi (Member # 5974) on :
I didn't quote you, I posted the correct translations Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
*dies*
Okay. From now on, I'm going to pay more attention and think before I type.
Posted by Susie Derkins (Member # 7718) on :
quote:We are still savage bare-armed hairy people!
quote:Just wanted to see how many we are.
Hmmm... I like Teshi's translation better.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
It wasn't me that decided it would say that, it was the translator, I just filled in the blanks. Besides, a lot of people originally from the North like to say how big and blonde and hairy they are.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Well, in your defense Teshi, they really are still savage bare-armed hairy people.
[Edit--my post would have been much funnier if it had fallen where I originally intended it. Curse you Annie and Teshi, with your typing skillz.
[ April 14, 2005, 11:32 AM: Message edited by: Noemon ]
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
My father's grandmother was from Sweden. So I'm part Scandinavian. Does that count?
I'm also from Alaska. I live in a latitude farther north than Oslo or Stockholm. Does that count?
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
I'm a savage, bare-armed, hairy person.
And by that I mean Norwegian.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
quote:My father's grandmother was from Sweden. So I'm part Scandinavian. Does that count?
I'm also from Alaska. I live in a latitude farther north than Oslo or Stockholm. Does that count?
Are you hairy? And bare armed?
[ April 14, 2005, 11:33 AM: Message edited by: Noemon ]
Posted by Susie Derkins (Member # 7718) on :
I live in Montana and all my neighbors are Norskes. Does that count?
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Norwegian translator:
Ville = savage, savages, want, will, would Bara = bare-armed
Swedish translator:
Ville = Would Bara = Only, mere
The sentence in question, by translator:
"Would just look how many we were."
So yeah, that makes more sense!
Also, if an English speaker adopts an accent and says that same question, it actually kind of sounds like it might in English .
[ April 14, 2005, 11:40 AM: Message edited by: Teshi ]
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
Bare-armed? Sometimes. Hairy? Well, not so much. But I drink mead, so that should count for something.
Posted by Stray (Member # 4056) on :
My maternal grandmother's family is Swedish. And my husband is half Norwegian as these things are reckoned. I am not particularly hairy, though, and am far too self-consious to go completley bare-armed.
Posted by Susie Derkins (Member # 7718) on :
If Jesus had been a Norvegian Things would be so different today Instead of Matthew, Mark and Luke an John We'd have Sven and Lars and Ole
Walkin' on the water Would be no special trick Cause all over Norvay The ice is awful thick
If Jesus was a Norske We'd all eat lutefisk We'd have lefse for communion And there'd be no Methodists
If you want to say "Amen!" We're not gonna letcha At the end of every prayer, we'd shout: "Yah, sure, you betcha!"
-Ringling 5, If Jesus Had Been a Norwegian Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
quote:But I drink mead, so that should count for something.
Do you at least drink it savagely? Maybe fresh squeezed from the teats of a magic goat or something?
Posted by Susie Derkins (Member # 7718) on :
If it's mead, I think it should properly be squeezed from the teats of a magic drunk bee.
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
I drink it out of wooden goblets. Once I even drank it while I was eating ribs. And you can't eat ribs not-savagely. That's just how it is.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
quote:If it's mead, I think it should properly be squeezed from the teats of a magic drunk bee.
You'd think so, but you'd be wrong.
[ April 14, 2005, 12:02 PM: Message edited by: Noemon ]
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Well, wood is good, but I don't know about goblets. Get a rough hewn wooden tankard, though, and between it and the rib eating you'll be in like Flynn.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Well, really it should be a hollow horn drinking cup.
EDIT: Wow, this is post 3999! It seems like only a few weeks ago I was at 3000!
[ April 14, 2005, 12:04 PM: Message edited by: Teshi ]
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
Oh, I'm sure there are some folks that neatly cut the meat off the bone with a knife and fork and eat it delicately, dabbing their lips with the corner of their napkin after every bite and holding out their pinkies as they sip their beverage.
But they're pansies! I tear off the flesh with my teeth and gnaw the bone when I'm done. I'm a Northman, by Odin's beard!
Posted by Susie Derkins (Member # 7718) on :
quote:You'd think so, but you'd be wrong.
Sigh. I guess I'm not a true Norske. I just listened to too much ABBA in utero.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
quote: Oh, I'm sure there are some folks that neatly cut the meat off the bone with a knife and fork and eat it delicately, dabbing their lips with the corner of their napkin after every bite and holding out their pinkies as they sip their beverage.
Heh, I do that sometimes, when I'm in a particularly dainty mood. It also prevents meat from sticking between my teeth and braces, which is not always the most attractive look...
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
It may not be attractive, but if the meat is rare enough it's certainly going to be a savage look!
You're right about the hollow drinking horn, by the way--I was seduced into counting a wooden drinking vessel by the phrase "rough hewn", but hollow horns are definitely where it's at.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Ah, but my northern blood is muted by the Mongrel Brit in me, so the savage bloodied teeth look is not what I am going for. All that rain has diluted my savage Norman, Anglo-Saxon nature and made it soggy...
Posted by no. 6 (Member # 7753) on :
Heh, heh, heh... titel bovengenoemde "titta".
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
But if you're putting in the effort to have your teeth straightened you can't be *too* British.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
That's true, sadly.
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
Oh, I thought the "you'd be wrong" thing was about the ribs. It didn't have a quote, originally.
*wonders how to say "my bad" in Old Norse*
In any case, braces are no excuse! Bloody Normans, getting the mother island all Frenchified. Pansy Norman-lovers, with their "napkins" and their "wine glasses" and their "forks". Real Saxons don't care if they get meat in their braces. It just means you can have leftovers for later!
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Yeah, I was posting too slowly at that point to keep up with the thread, so it was pretty ambiguous what I was referring to until I edited in the quote.
Posted by Susie Derkins (Member # 7718) on :
quote:Bloody Normans, getting the mother island all Frenchified.
You do know, of course, that the Normans were actually transplanted Vikings. (hence the name) Not very French at all, except linguistically.
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
I know perfectly well who and what the Normans were, thank you. I was joking.
Posted by Susie Derkins (Member # 7718) on :
OK.
*stabs Verily with a baguette*
Posted by Swede (Member # 7560) on :
I doesn't seem to be very many people from Scandinavia here. To bad. (as you would guess, I'm from Sweden) Oh, and nice translations And here comes another one; Och om ni undrar, så är jag och Mahabarata tvillingbröder.
[ April 15, 2005, 04:40 AM: Message edited by: Swede ]
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
*grabs the baguette and slays a boar with it*
*eats the boar*
*and the baguette*
Posted by Susie Derkins (Member # 7718) on :
Bloody Saxons.
Posted by Swede (Member # 7560) on :
Mahabarata, check this thread out "Set of 4 LOTR funnies" Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
quote:Bloody Saxons.
Racism, I say!
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