I think Swedes are eviler than Finns

[Saras]

A Finn and a Swede were having an argument on who's mother tongue was the more beautiful of the two.

As they were unable to reach an agreement, they decided to ask an English linguist to act as a neutral expert judge on the matter.



The renown researcher asked both parties to translate the following verse by Percy Shelley to their respective languages:



Island, island,

Grassy island,

Grassy island's bride.



The Finn answered first. His translation was:

Saari, saari,

Heinäsaari,

Heinäsaaren morsian.



Then came the Swede:

Ö, ö,

Hö ö,

Hö ös mö.

[SpencerH]

Funny but anyone who's actually heard the 'clicks and clacks' of poly-vowelled Finnish knows the real score.

[TheStinger]

its been seen before but it merits a re visit

http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=42100

[Chemical Ollie]

That translation was done by a computer, huh?

[Winston]

I think the Pope is Catholic.

By the way, as mentioned before, the sentence "I'm out on the island in the river" spoken in the traditional, widely used, dialect of Western Jutland (Danish) would be

A æ u å æ ø i æ å.

[Winston]

Hm, if posed as a question, "I'm out on the island in the river, right?" becomes

A æ u å æ ø i æ å æ å?

With different intonations of the various vowels, of course.

Heh.

[Meticulous Man]

Interesting... would "grassy island's bride is the bride who is out on the island in the river, right?" be something like this:

Hø-øs mø æ æ mø som æ u å æ ø i æ å æ å?

[Winston]

Precisely.

That's rather impressive, Aivo½so!

I think you'd make a good viking, of sorts.

[Winston]

Just to clarify a little, the Western Jutlandic sentence "A æ u å æ ø i æ å æ å?" spoken in "proper" Danish is

Jeg er ude på øen i åen, ikke osse (/også)?

[Chemical Ollie]

This is the correct translation. The OP is pure nonsense, neither the vocabulary nor the grammar are correct.

Ö, ö
Grästäckta ö
Den grästäckta öns brud

[Winston]

I don't believe the OP's poetic version is incorrect. It's just that it's amusing, which, admittedly, may be confusing to most Swedes.

[Chemical Ollie]

If you use the word hö for grass, which is far-fetched, the correct translation for grassy must be "höiga", a word that is gramatically correct but doesn't exist. So to get it right, you must change grassy to grass covered.

The Swedish Chef in the Muppet Show was amusing too, but he didn't speak a word in Swedish.

[Pekka]

Sure, but Swedes are still much more evil. FACT!

[Meticulous Man]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie
This is the correct translation. The OP is pure nonsense, neither the vocabulary nor the grammar are correct.

Ö, ö
Grästäckta ö
Den grästäckta öns brud

What a pathetic whitewashing attempt

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by TheStinger
its been seen before but it merits a re visit

http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showt...threadid=42100

Am I the only one who has noticed that it was Laz' incantations that brougt the Pekka creature to this realm ?

Wonder if he had dared to do what he did if he had known the consequences