Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 20:51:03 GMT From: th <someguynospamwhere.se> Subject: Re: I'm thinking of rejoining the fold....
Paul Halliday wrote: > in article 20050706142004.08d5ab97.nothingnospamo.com, Saab Guy at > nothingnospamo.com wrote on 06/07/2005 19:19: > > <snip>Below is the phrase in question from my current .sig > >>>Var tog v”gen v”gen? > > > >>"Where train street street" is what your sentence means in Swedish. > > > "Where did the road go?" It's a play on words where the same word used twice > has a different meaning, given the context, like "ska vi ha sex klockan > sex?" :) > > Train is tÂg, anyway ... and "v”g" is road, street more corresponds to "gata" a word you still can find in older English east coast cities influenced by the vikings: "Kings Gate" is something I have seen in Lincoln, I guess York has something similar. Just to correct the grammar: "Vart tog v”gen v”gen?" is the correct expression. "Where" can be translated either into "vart" if it's a direction involved, or into "var" if it's just a position, like in "Where are you?" = "Var ”r du?". Compare with "Where are you going?" = "Vart gÂr du?" End of Swedish grammar lesson (part 1?). A more complicated example: - Far, fÂr fÂr fÂr? - Nej, fÂr fÂr inte fÂr, fÂr fÂr lamm. - Father, does sheep give birth to sheep? - No, sheep don't give birth to sheep, sheep give birth to lamb. (or maybe it can be made shorter by someone who is more fluent in English?) Sorry for the very off-topic post! -- th
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