Swedish lesson number 2
Given the slapstick life I plan to lead in Sweden, I've decided the best way to learn the language will be through newspaper cartoons. I won't be learning definitions of words, per se, mine will be a behavioural approach. I will simply learn what are the approprate utterances in different physical circumstances, without worrying about meanings of individual words.
For example, should I come across someone with a video camera down their pants, I now know that the appropriate expression is "Vad Nu?"
Any Norwegians reading this (or Swedes, although I doubt it) feel free to contribute to my understanding.
On another note, when you post a comment and Blogger asks you to "Choose an identity" don't you get a bit of a James Bond feeling? No, neither do I. I get a feeling of "It's a bit LATE, 25 years ago would have been a GOOD TIME TO ASK ME THAT!"
Keith says:
You my pet, my poodle chicken noodle's on the rise
Open your eyes and see my life
Rap moves on to the year three thousand!
For example, should I come across someone with a video camera down their pants, I now know that the appropriate expression is "Vad Nu?"
Any Norwegians reading this (or Swedes, although I doubt it) feel free to contribute to my understanding.
On another note, when you post a comment and Blogger asks you to "Choose an identity" don't you get a bit of a James Bond feeling? No, neither do I. I get a feeling of "It's a bit LATE, 25 years ago would have been a GOOD TIME TO ASK ME THAT!"
Keith says:
You my pet, my poodle chicken noodle's on the rise
Open your eyes and see my life
Rap moves on to the year three thousand!
posted by I-Rock at 5:00 PM
5 Comments:
Using this approach may also be the only known way to make Peanuts comics funny...
PS. DVD has been posted.
My pulse rate has already gone up noticeably in anticipation.
Yes, Peanuts is unique, I believe, in that the nut it is named after is actually significantly funnier than the cartoon. I plan to distribute an educational package about Australia to the Swedes consisting entirely Ginger Meggs cartoons. Preceded, of course, by an all-encompassing logical "NOT" operator.
p.s. whats the post-doc in Melbourne?
Is it with Rob Evans?
With his son, actually. It's a nonspecific offer, probably some deal of a paper or two with his name on it in exchange for money.
Excellent. I had a look at his website, seems like a good guy, except that with that grin he looks freakily like his dad, much like the way a zombie always looks freakily like the human it spawned from.
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