GDT: Group S • May 12 • Norway 3, Latvia 0

[BalticWarrior]

Yep Ø is a definite superior letter ....we loose because we don't have Mikkel Bødker....to little Ø in the roster! (ok we have the other Bødker, and Møller) buts it doesn't seem to be enough!

How do you pronaunce the Ø exactly?

 

[BalticWarrior]

yeah..i promise to be depressed in an optimistic way no matter how bad it goes.....crack jokes of our downtour to division 1A.....

Bur on a serious note i really hope it`s not gonna be the case you deserve better than that.

 

[Justinov]

How do you pronaunce the Ø exactly?

Actually it's a mix of ö and ø that is written by the same letter.
The original Ö was like greek oi (dansk øjne - "eyes").
Ø is more like french "eau" but short and pressured/"stød" - like danish Ø (meaning island) - gives like an echo sound /Ø'ø/

 

[Justinov]

The Norwegians use it without the same pressure/"stød".....that is uniquely danish and one of the reasons other scandinavians find danish weird.

 

[BalticWarrior]

Actually it's a mix of ö and ø that is written by the same letter.
The original Ö was like greek oi (dansk øjne - "eyes").
Ø is more like french "eau" but short and pressured/"stød" - like danish Ø (meaning island) - gives like an echo sound /Ø'ø/

Okey,so i should pronaunce Bødker more like Beudker,right?

 

[Systemfel]

Ø sounds like the second E in better.

 

[BalticWarrior]

Ø sounds like the second E in better.

That certainly clears things up

 

[Justinov]

Ø sounds like the second E in better.

Yeah maybe in swedish and norwegian, but not in danish (sorry but we have some really weird things in danish...i don't think any other european language even have what is called "glottal stop" in english - but it sounds like an echo.....In old dialect on Sjælland (Zealand) its even a strong Ø'Ø echo...while nowadays in standard danish its downtoned to Ø'ø (small echo) - but its not used at all in the southern part of Denmark.

 

[BalticWarrior]

Yeah maybe in swedish and norwegian, but not in danish (sorry but we have some really weird things in danish...i don't think any other european language even have what is called "glottal stop" in english - but it sounds like an echo.....In old dialect on Sjælland (Zealand) its even a strong Ø'Ø echo...while nowadays in standard danish its downtoned to Ø'ø (small echo) - but its not used at all in the southern part of Denmark.

Wow,danish sounds efffin hard,i thought about maybe i should learn Swedish but as i understand its not any easier

 

[Justinov]

My teacher said in indoeuropean linguistics that Danish possible is the language in the world with most vowel sounds! Bjerg (norwegian/swedish) it would be easy...danish it's /b-j/i-aa-uuu/ or something like that....

 

[Justinov]

Bødker....would be b-EAU'eau-d-k-"ö"-r -> the ending e gets an ö like sound...confused lol

 

[BalticWarrior]

My teacher said in indoeuropean linguistics that Danish possible is the language in the world with most vowel sounds! Bjerg (norwegian/swedish) it would be easy...danish it's /b-j/i-aa-uuu/ or something like that....

interesting

 

[BalticWarrior]

Bødker....would be b-EAU'eau-d-k-"ö"-r -> the ending e gets an ö like sound...confused lol

I am

 

[Justinov]

yep...learn swedish first......then norwegian and if you want something really hard then danish or icelandic lol

 

[Justinov]

Eyjafjallajökull - thats the icelandic volcano that caused havoc to air traffic -- that should give your tongue some twists

 

[BalticWarrior]

yep...learn swedish first......then norwegian and if you want something really hard then danish or icelandic lol

First i have to learn german properly(3 years already of german) and all i can say-Deutsch ist sehr schwer.(i hope i wrote that right )

 

[BalticWarrior]

Eyjafjallajökull - thats the icelandic volcano that caused havoc to air traffic -- that should give your tongue some twists

Oh yeah everyone in latvian tv news was confused how to pronaunce it, it was hilarious

 

[Justinov]

First i have to learn german properly(3 years already of german) and all i can say-Deutsch is sehr schwer.(i hope i wrote that right )

German and (Old) Icelandic still have the nominative-accusative-genetive-dative grammar, while the other scandinavian languages have lost the cases like in english. Danish grammer is fairly easy..it's only the phonetics that is hard IMO

 

[BalticWarrior]

German and (Old) Icelandic still have the nominative-accusative-genetive-dative grammar, while the other scandinavian languages have lost the cases like in english. Danish grammer is fairly easy..it's only the phonetics that is hard IMO

I think Latvian grammar for any foreigner would be confusing as ****

 

[Justinov]

Oh yeah everyone in latvian tv news was confused how to pronaunce it, it was hilarious

AI-ja---FJAL-la----JÖ-kull or something like that.

 

[Justinov]

I think Latvia grammar for any foreigner would be confusing as ****

I have had some Lithuanian in indoeuropean....it's like Sanskrit....my god it's ancient they still have singularis-DUALIS!!!!-pluralis. Latvian is a more modernized version, right? Have much of each other can you understand???

 

[BalticWarrior]

I have had some Lithuanian in indoeuropean....it's like Sanskrit....my god it's ancient they still have singularis-DUALIS!!!!-pluralis. Latvian is a more modernized version, right? Have much of each other can you understand???

Very little,almost nothing. Altough what little lithuanian knowlage they have about latvian they use it jokingly insulting us calling us "zirga galvas" which in latvian means "horse heads" most of them even dont know the meaning but they still use it

 

[Justinov]

Very little,almost nothing. Altough what little lithuanian knowlage they have about latvian they use it jokingly insulting us calling us "zirga galvas" which in latvian means "horse heads" most of them even dont know the meaning but they still use it

So what do you call the lithuanians??? and they call you horse heads....it's that because of some physical look ...or because horses are pagan, or the meaning not very bright???

 

[BalticWarrior]

So what do you call the lithuanians??? and they call you horse heads....it's that because of some physical look ...or because horses are pagan, or the meaning not very bright???

We haven`t come up with anything clever yet,the reason they call us horse heads- looking at latvia the shoreline looks like a horses head,but however we do make fun of estonians for beeing slow

 

[SirKillalot]

Haha, when Canada and USA are finished, It's all about who played the worst and the crappy refs. When Norway and Latvia are finished, time to learn some new languages so we can shout or write strange language in the "revenge-meeting" next year

Kudos!