Alphabet meme
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marymont.
This is how it works: Comment on this entry and I will give you a letter. Write ten words beginning with that letter in your journal, including an explanation what the word means to you and why, and then pass out letters to those who want to play along.
I got C, a letter that almost no swedish words start with.
Cotehardie is a word that I think has been misinterpreted by the costuming community in the past. The word means approx. "daring tunic" and that has been seen as a description of the very fitted fashions of the second half of the 14th century. The word is older than those fashions however, even in scandinavian sources you find it around 1330. So the daring part may have something to do with length or how the neck is cut or just anything that's new and/or different. Since the word continued to be in use, it would have been used about the short tight tunics too, but it's not the tightness that makes it a cotehardie. It is also a male garment, that only exceptionally is connected with women in the written sources. Stella Mary Newton notes this and in my sources the only cotehardie associated with a woman is man's cotehardie that is given to her. I will propose an interpretation of the word in my dissertation.
Coffee is not half as good, actually not 1/10 as good as tea in my opinion.
Cats are weird but fun. My cat's name is Mysko.
Coming! is the word I think I use the most at home. Since Maja calls out "mum" quite a lot. Even when it's not particularly me she wants.
Conferences. I'm going to the Pagan Federation Sweden conference here in Gothenburg in two weeks.
Coding is something I wish I knew how to do. Maybe learning that will be a project for when I'm unemployed after the dissertation is finished.
Crayfish cooked with dill is a swedish August specialty. We have special parties for this, where you sit outdoors, decorate with paper lanterns, eat crayfish and drink vodka. I don't. I don't eat any kind of shellfish. I just don't like the taste.
"Capucio", the latin word for hood, is one of the most common garments in swedish and norwegian medieval documents. For both men and women. They are frequently willed from men to women too, so the style must have been the same, or at least similar.
crackers are called "kex" in swedish and their is a linguistic division between the east and west part of Sweden whether the k should be pronoounced soft, like ch in church or with a hard k. The swedish pronounciation rules say that k should be soft before e, i, y, ä and ö, but apparently the easterners don't care about that. And neither does my husband.
Cheese is something I don't eat. Except paneer, fresh cheese and melted cheese in food. But no hard cheese on bread or *shudder* moldy cheeses. I would like to make real cheese though. I've made cottage cheese and paneer with lemon to make it curdle and cheese for swedish cheesecake with real rennet (some may remember me trying to make cheese cake around midnight the day before christmas some years ago). My half sister's grandfather used to make cheese for christmas and I recall that it smelled horribly while it was maturing.
marymont. This is how it works: Comment on this entry and I will give you a letter. Write ten words beginning with that letter in your journal, including an explanation what the word means to you and why, and then pass out letters to those who want to play along.
I got C, a letter that almost no swedish words start with.
Cotehardie is a word that I think has been misinterpreted by the costuming community in the past. The word means approx. "daring tunic" and that has been seen as a description of the very fitted fashions of the second half of the 14th century. The word is older than those fashions however, even in scandinavian sources you find it around 1330. So the daring part may have something to do with length or how the neck is cut or just anything that's new and/or different. Since the word continued to be in use, it would have been used about the short tight tunics too, but it's not the tightness that makes it a cotehardie. It is also a male garment, that only exceptionally is connected with women in the written sources. Stella Mary Newton notes this and in my sources the only cotehardie associated with a woman is man's cotehardie that is given to her. I will propose an interpretation of the word in my dissertation.
Coffee is not half as good, actually not 1/10 as good as tea in my opinion.
Cats are weird but fun. My cat's name is Mysko.
Coming! is the word I think I use the most at home. Since Maja calls out "mum" quite a lot. Even when it's not particularly me she wants.
Conferences. I'm going to the Pagan Federation Sweden conference here in Gothenburg in two weeks.
Coding is something I wish I knew how to do. Maybe learning that will be a project for when I'm unemployed after the dissertation is finished.
Crayfish cooked with dill is a swedish August specialty. We have special parties for this, where you sit outdoors, decorate with paper lanterns, eat crayfish and drink vodka. I don't. I don't eat any kind of shellfish. I just don't like the taste.
"Capucio", the latin word for hood, is one of the most common garments in swedish and norwegian medieval documents. For both men and women. They are frequently willed from men to women too, so the style must have been the same, or at least similar.
crackers are called "kex" in swedish and their is a linguistic division between the east and west part of Sweden whether the k should be pronoounced soft, like ch in church or with a hard k. The swedish pronounciation rules say that k should be soft before e, i, y, ä and ö, but apparently the easterners don't care about that. And neither does my husband.
Cheese is something I don't eat. Except paneer, fresh cheese and melted cheese in food. But no hard cheese on bread or *shudder* moldy cheeses. I would like to make real cheese though. I've made cottage cheese and paneer with lemon to make it curdle and cheese for swedish cheesecake with real rennet (some may remember me trying to make cheese cake around midnight the day before christmas some years ago). My half sister's grandfather used to make cheese for christmas and I recall that it smelled horribly while it was maturing.
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Date: 2006-04-26 08:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-26 09:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-26 09:26 am (UTC)Actually, "kex" is an English loan word (from "cake"), similar to the word "keps" (from "cap" -- somehow english loan words tend to acquire plural s'es in swedish, although we don't use s for plural and the words are used in the singular). How do you pronounce "keps"?
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Date: 2006-04-26 09:45 am (UTC)Eva
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Date: 2006-04-26 09:46 am (UTC)Eva
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Date: 2006-04-26 09:47 am (UTC)Eva
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Date: 2006-04-26 10:04 am (UTC)Actually, there are more examples in Swedish of hard 'k' in front of soft vowels -- "kille", "keso", "kö", "kisse", to mention a few. A lot of them are loan words, though. Don't I get a letter, then, because of my (un)orthodox pronunciation? :)
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Date: 2006-04-26 10:36 am (UTC)You get L.
/Eva
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Date: 2006-04-26 10:41 am (UTC)I'll do the meme if and when I have the time -- very possibly, everyone on my flist will already have done it by then ;)
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Date: 2006-04-26 11:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-26 11:06 am (UTC)Eva
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Date: 2006-04-26 11:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-26 11:30 am (UTC)And now the (dreadful!) continuation of pronouncing "kjære" as "skjære".... *shudders* The purist in me thing it's awful, but the historian in me see it as yet another developement that prooves languages to be alive.
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Date: 2006-04-26 12:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-26 12:34 pm (UTC)Eva
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Date: 2006-04-26 12:36 pm (UTC)Every year in Novemeber there is a pagan federation Europe conference in London. I haven't been, but I would love to.
Eva
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Date: 2006-04-26 03:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-26 03:50 pm (UTC)Eva
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Date: 2006-04-26 04:42 pm (UTC)*sticks tongue out at Tatty*
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Date: 2006-04-26 05:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-26 07:47 pm (UTC)Eva
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Date: 2006-04-26 08:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-26 08:28 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-04-27 01:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-27 05:24 am (UTC)Eva