Green Gabbro

I sidste aften har jeg til sidste spist noget rødgrød med fløde. Huskammerat hvem har fået grøden, sagde det var en tyskisk ret “rotegrütze” med “Bavarisks vanillefløde” - men vi ved hvad han betyder, ikke?

Ancient Egypt swings in and out of fashion, of course, but why can’t I find noodles in the form of hieroglyphics? Capitalism has failed me! Stupid capitalism.

Alternative thinkier question: what language and character set of soup gives you the greatest probability of finding a word in your spoon? I’m tempted to say Chinese, because any […]

Even former French finance minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn has a blog. Socialisme et democratie à gauche, hoorah! But of course the most immediately interesting thing is the complete indecision over formalities in the comment sections:

Il serait intéressant pour toi (on se tutoie sur les blogs Dominique) que tu rencontre d’autres personnes que Mr Lo […]

Sure, my links have been coming from BoingBoing quite a lot recently, but lately the BoingBoing is not the sufficiently critical. This I have an axe in my head universal translator is not only unexciting derivative work, it’s missing several languages, and I suspect the Scandewegish is rather un-idiomatic.

Swedish: Ah, Herregud! Jag har en […]

Whenever I’m travelling abroad, I worry about the fact that I either don’t speak the native language, or don’t speak it well enough to please the Evil Culture Masters (one of these days, thugs from the académie française are going to come in the dead of night and beat me to death with a dictionary, […]

Speculations on the future of the English language: a bandwagon I can’t help but fall on to.
I consider Denmark in many ways to be a bilingual country - sure, very few people speak English as their first language, but practically everyone speaks it as their second, and they do so with an immense amount of […]

Sep 10, 2020 01:55 from Vanity
How do you pronounce spyan.ras.gzigs? Well, z (and zh) are normally pronounced s (and sh), so we can start by changing this to spyan.ras.gsigs.
Now to spyan: the s drops; py becomes ‘ch’; and a becomes fronted before n, changing spyan to “chen”.
ras: the a is fronted and the s […]

The train tracks along Øster Voldgade are beautiful when empty, running between concrete walls covered in fading graffiti and home to a small brigade of little green weeds. I almost feel bad that they run trains through the place; it completely ruins the effect. One of the most underestimated features of the United States is […]

I have finished my three week intensive Danish course. To show for it, I have a nice little certificate, and three bottles of beer I snagged from the reception on my way out. But now what I really want to know is why these silly Danes don’t ever seem to follow the scripts… whenever Jytte […]

The Danish language has no word for “please.” There are various ways to politely ask for things, and I know some of them, but there’s no single, easy word I can put at the end of a question that indicates that even though I don’t know the language well enough to politely ask this without […]