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Did you read the 'Did You Know' section? Damn, how could I not have guessed - if not just plain known - that all those lovely little words were of Scandinavian origin from the 13th Century?? Wow. It's like listing a bunch of celebrities - "what do all these famous people have in common?"
"Give up?"
"If you guessed 'all of them have mothers with the middle name of Anna,' you're right!!"
And here you thought it was because they were all murdered during intercourse in the Friday the 13th movies back in the 80s.
But then I think, well, just because I couldn't guess, that doesn't mean no one could have. I've said before that I think everyone should be a geek about something. Quick! Name the silent movie with this intertitle: "Tush, tush, this is no place to eat onions!" (You don't know...???)
Back to Scandinavia - from what I see, does this mean that the Scandinavian languages only have one-syllable words? That would certainly make things easier. But could you imagine the national Spelling Bees?? The kid who wins isn't the last to spell the word correctly, it's the last standing before they all just fall asleep. It's sort of like the dance marathon of spelling bees! Cool!
Shall try again to post a comment. In Swedish, which I took a couple of years of at the U, They make strings of separate words into one word sometimes. It's kind of fun. Best example was the title of our text "Nyborjarsvenska" Ny is now, borjar is beginning , Svenska is Swedish of course. It did result in some initially puzzling groups of letters but it's very rhythmic and colorful as a language. I highly recommend it.
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