that's lovely. (: how do you pronounce it? danish is so completely alien to me, but it's intriguing.
i love linguistic analysis. in chinese/cantonese, 'boy/girlfriend' are direct translations, but they're pretty much always taken in the romantic sense. then there are the more slangy terms, particularly in cantonese - the word for daughter can mean girlfriend too, depending on the preceding article.
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Date: 2012-02-19 11:21 am (UTC)i love linguistic analysis. in chinese/cantonese, 'boy/girlfriend' are direct translations, but they're pretty much always taken in the romantic sense. then there are the more slangy terms, particularly in cantonese - the word for daughter can mean girlfriend too, depending on the preceding article.