2007/11/27 23:54
Eg har hatt gjester på bloggen min frå mangt eit land i laupet av det siste året der eg har logget kor dei kom frå, men ein gjest i går slo likevel rekorden: Han var frå Bouvetøyi!Wikipedia skriv at Bouvetøyi er ei øy i Søratlanteren som er under norsk suverenitet. Ho er den mest avsidesliggjande ubebudde øy i verdi og...
2007/11/22 23:27
Da Léon var lille (altså for et par måneder siden), forkortede han alle ord til sidste betonede stavelse + et eventuelt følgende schwa.Han er nu begyndt at udtale flere stavelser (fx er hans nyeste ord d(r)omedar), men han har nogle få problemer med ord, han tidligere har lært i forkortet form.Fx blev både edderkop og helikopter tidligere til koppe, og...
2007/11/29 23:40
While I was waiting for the bus the other day, I spotted this Christmas tree in a shop window. It was full of cardboard baubles saying Merry Christmas in various languages.
However, one of them was odd, I thought: It said Jovial Natal, and that didn’t ring any bells. I checked it the next day, and Natal is definitely Portuguese, but the normal greeting in that language is Feliz Natal.
The word jovial does exist in Portuguese, however, so I wonder what’s happened here. Has somebody made their own translation, dictionary in hand? It doesn’t make sense, though, since jovial isn’t a conventional translation of merry. Or is it a rarely used alternative in Portuguese? A Google search doesn’t give many results, and they don’t look native to me. Or is it not Portuguese after all? It would have to be a very rare language, though, to not show up in Google searches.
2007/11/26 23:37
Vores lille datter må gerne snart komme ud. Siden i fredags vil hun ikke længere blive klassificeret som for tidligt født, og vi glæder os sådan til at se hende!Selvom Phyllis naturligvis er smuk med sin store mave, som i ny og næ bevæger sig, når den lille pige sparker hende eller bokser lidt.Vi har fundet på et navn (og også et drengenavn, da de kun garanterede kønnet med 97% sikkerhed), og vi har pakket tasken og fået et videokamera...
2007/11/26 23:13
One reason why I'm a great fan of the metric system is that I know a tiny bit about the complete mess that preceded it.These days people tend to think the choice is between metric and imperial, but before the French Revolution each country had its own system of measurements.If this situation had been continued till the present day, just...
2007/11/21 23:38
I guess it's time to decide who I'll give my vote for taking over the reins from Sir Ming.Politically, Clegg and Huhne are very close, and none of them seems to agree with me on Scottish independence.However, Clegg seems to...
2007/11/20 23:22
I april opdaterede jeg min beregning af stemmetal i Storkreds Østjylland:Skanderborgkredsen viste sig altså at være endnu bedre, end jeg regnede med, og Horsenskredsen noget dårligere (men sidstnævnte kunne jo skyldes, at Anders Samuelsen stammer fra Horsens). Konklusionen må dog...
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