The Republic of Heaven

PostPosted: **Tue Aug 26, 2003 9:37 pm**

I got a C in German

PostPosted: **Wed Aug 27, 2003 12:10 am**

errr.... gut gemacht

PostPosted: **Wed Aug 27, 2003 2:24 pm**

I actually understood part of that conversation.. yey

New mission: learn swedish. and russian too, just for the novelty value

PostPosted: **Wed Aug 27, 2003 3:00 pm**

I've studied Russian (not very much, but I understand it and can speak some as well) and... it's a very fascinating language, but the grammar is about as complex as the Finnish grammar, plus there's the different alphabet to learn... so it's not really something you can study lightly - if you really want to learn it.

PostPosted: **Wed Aug 27, 2003 3:03 pm**

i know.. i started once, but just don't have the time to learn it properly.. but i think i may be able to take it at uni along with whatever i decide to do..

PostPosted: **Mon Sep 08, 2003 3:45 pm**

Studying languages takes time... I don't feel that I've ever started learning a language from scratch, english you learn wether you like it or not, and german is similar to swedish...

PostPosted: **Mon Sep 08, 2003 7:10 pm**

i think languages are so cool im taking chinese right now and i have way to much homework to take another but ill probably take spanish or japanese after

PostPosted: **Tue Sep 09, 2003 2:35 am**

canto or mando? or something else?

PostPosted: **Tue Sep 09, 2003 4:13 am**

um....
no hablo espanol....
I'm in spanish 3....
Might be neat to learn some new ones in college, japanese sounds intersting with its crazy grammar, and maybe some old languages would be neat.

PostPosted: **Tue Sep 09, 2003 10:12 pm**

jessia wrote:canto or mando? or something else?

oops, cantonese or mandarin? or something else?

i wish i was taking spanish again, but damn 12s unenrolling. o well, maybe next year... french for now (don't like my teacher much though).

PostPosted: **Wed Sep 10, 2003 2:16 am**

oh mandarin

PostPosted: **Mon Feb 02, 2004 3:37 pm**

Bumping up this old post, just for fun

Fun conversation about languages!

Anyway, what I wanted to say, is that I'm Icelandic, and I believe ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Â sahÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¦ttr is an Icelandic name, or at least based on Icelandic. "ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Â sar" is what the heathen gods are/were called, and "hÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¦tta" means danger. So it comes pretty close to meaning god-destroyer.

(Oh, and hi everyone. New here, although I don't plan on reading many topics here since I have yet to finish The Amber Spyglass! When I have, I'm coming back

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PostPosted: **Mon Feb 02, 2004 6:11 pm**

That explanation sounds very plausible, since I suppose the authority was a kind of heathen god. Welcome btw.

PostPosted: **Thu Feb 05, 2004 9:09 pm**

What the hell?
English for all us french-as-a-second language cretins please!

PostPosted: **Fri Feb 06, 2004 10:45 am**

Not a good sign.
Just to add to the topic considering that it is answered, Aesir was the home of the gods, so any words based around that mean God probably.

Also, can anyone find a Finnish translator online, so that I can understand it in English? Please??

PostPosted: **Fri Feb 06, 2004 11:34 pm**

Err... wasn't that Swedish? It has too many consonants in the wrong places to be Finnish. In any case, google is your friend.

PostPosted: **Sun Feb 08, 2004 7:35 pm**

I can do a wicked accent but i can't speak it.
(just trying to be part of the club, only joking)

PostPosted: **Mon Dec 06, 2004 7:36 pm**

TonyOn wrote:Ja e hÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¤lften finlandssvensk ÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¢cksÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¢! TyvÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¤rr kan man int tillverka ett svensk o (a me boll) med den hÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¤r jÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¤vla belgiska keyboarden...

Does 'belgiska' have anything to do with belgium?

PostPosted: **Mon Dec 06, 2004 7:38 pm**

Btw, aehasahaettr means god-destroyer, it's said in TAS. on page 346 if i'm not mistaking

The Republic of Heaven

The name AEsahaettr