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rikke_leonhart) wrote2012-02-19 12:10 pm
rikke_leonhart) wrote2012-02-19 12:10 pm
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Jeg kan rime hjerte på smerte
I know this is pretty random (even for me), but bear with me.
There aren't many instances where I will say that I love Danish more than English, but in this occasion, I will.
The word "boyfriend" and the word "girlfriend" annoy me. They almost always call for some kind of clarification, some kind of "it's my friend, who happens to be a boy" or the other way around, and I'm not thrilled. The same thing with German, where you (unless you're being poetic and call them Geliebte) say "Freund" and "Freundin" for boy- and girlfriend, respectively. (And you German people, if you have corrections, throw them at me, I've been neglecing my German lately.)
In Danish, however, we have the same words - "ven" for friend and "veninde" for "friend who happens to be a girl". For the actual term for boyfriend and girlfriend, we have the word "kæreste" which means: Dearest. So we actually go around saying "this is my dearest." And I love that pretty fiercely. I think it's an amazing thing to declare.
Now I will go and watch The Artist with my dad. Toodles!
(Does anyone know if the BTK Twins app is worth the money? Can't decide T___T)
There aren't many instances where I will say that I love Danish more than English, but in this occasion, I will.
The word "boyfriend" and the word "girlfriend" annoy me. They almost always call for some kind of clarification, some kind of "it's my friend, who happens to be a boy" or the other way around, and I'm not thrilled. The same thing with German, where you (unless you're being poetic and call them Geliebte) say "Freund" and "Freundin" for boy- and girlfriend, respectively. (And you German people, if you have corrections, throw them at me, I've been neglecing my German lately.)
In Danish, however, we have the same words - "ven" for friend and "veninde" for "friend who happens to be a girl". For the actual term for boyfriend and girlfriend, we have the word "kæreste" which means: Dearest. So we actually go around saying "this is my dearest." And I love that pretty fiercely. I think it's an amazing thing to declare.
Now I will go and watch The Artist with my dad. Toodles!
(Does anyone know if the BTK Twins app is worth the money? Can't decide T___T)
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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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ME TOO. I pretty much just love languages in general, but analysis is so amazing, getting into the layers of nuances that actually make the languages is just the best things ever.