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  • Re: Question

    From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to Bj-rn Felten on Fri Nov 26 09:34:00 2021
    Bj-rn Felten wrote to David Drummond <=-

    In Swedish we have the other way around "problem". Two words that
    are spelled exactly the same can have a totally different meaning. E.g. the word "tomten". With the same emphasis on the first part, but with
    an ever so minute difference in acuteness, it can mean Santa Clause (upwards) or the property lot (downwards).

    On Star Trek Discovery, the crew was in the mess hall playing the "Auto antonym game" words that mean one thing and the opposite.

    "home bound"

    Interesting word game, I hadn't thought of that.

    "Cleave", there's another one.



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  • From David Drummond@3:640/305 to alexander koryagin on Wed Nov 24 13:20:29 2021
    On 23/11/2021 22:59, alexander koryagin : Lee Lofaso wrote:
    I read your message from 17.11.2021 01:22

      LL> If you could have a dinner party with three people
      LL> living or dead who would they be?

    Do you think there is no difference to have dinner with living or dead? ;=)

    Live people make better conversationalists (so I here).

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  • From David Drummond@3:640/305 to David Drummond on Wed Nov 24 13:21:35 2021
    On 24/11/2021 13:20, David Drummond : alexander koryagin wrote:

    Live people make better conversationalists (so I here).

    Erm - make that "hear".

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    David

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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to David Drummond on Wed Nov 24 13:20:31 2021
    Live people make better conversationalists (so I here).

    Erm - make that "hear".

    It sounded the same. Bloody English...



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  • From David Drummond@3:640/305 to Bj”rn Felten on Fri Nov 26 07:45:41 2021
    On 24/11/2021 22:20, Bj�rn Felten : David Drummond wrote:
     DD>>> Live people make better conversationalists (so I here).

     DD>> Erm - make that "hear".

       It sounded the same. Bloody English...


    I've thought that all my life.

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    David

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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to David Drummond on Fri Nov 26 04:51:44 2021
    It sounded the same. Bloody English...

    I've thought that all my life.

    In Swedish we have the other way around "problem". Two words that are spelled exactly the same can have a totally different meaning. E.g. the word "tomten". With the same emphasis on the first part, but with an ever so minute difference in acuteness, it can mean Santa Clause (upwards) or the property lot (downwards).

    There's many other examples. Very hard for adult people learning Swedish to get right, getting rid of their accent. I guess it's one of the reasons that to some people it sounds like we are singing when we speak.



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  • From Ward Dossche@2:292/854 to Bj÷rn Felten on Fri Nov 26 14:15:29 2021
    ... I guess it's one of
    the reasons that to some people it sounds like we are singing when we speak.

    You mean ... ABBA weren't really singing? Just reading football comments?

    \%/@rd

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