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[rikke_leonhart]

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)

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[rikke-leonhart.livejournal.com]

Well, actually, no, my mom and I were, as awkward as it sounds, actually discussing the realism (or not LOL) of porn and then we somehow veered into this. Don't ask me how we got there. It was awkward.

I have a confession to make - as someone whose language has Germanic origins, I've been very spoiled with how close the language (as well as German, English, all the Scandinavian languages, French, Spanish etc) is to Latin and how many of the words I can recognize in pretty much all the languages, but when I went to Prague last year, I was very lost for a bit because none of the words were familiar^^;;

Dual is amazing, though! I've only worked with dualis when I've been in Classic Greek class, but that's it.

I agree wholeheartedly with you on the I Love You issue, because, well. It's very European to keep the words closer to your chest than they do in the States. One of my closest friends is half Texan, and she pretty much said "I love you" on the day we met, which was incredibly awkward LOL, but for someone like me, who's pretty reserved and don't just say "I love you" because I need something to say, it's very overwhelming, and I feel that saying it too often cheapens the sentiment immensely. Regarding Kurt talking to Schuester in that ep (and how sad is Schuester that he has no one else to ask for advice? But that's another issue for another day), I really feel that Kurt was still in between places and still pretty much in love with the idea of Blaine rather than being in love with Blaine. I think he thought he was in love with him, but after Blaine fell from the pedestal, it allowed to let Kurt really fall in love with him. And then again, oh god, teenager are so dramatic and feel everything so much, so if he felt like he was in love, maybe he was. Or he's just the typical product of American youth. And I don't even want to start on Blaine, because I ahve so many issues with canon!Blaine these days that I can't even. Thank god for fanon!Blaine xD