without, crossed out, kicked out, cry out, reach out

[cimorene]

it's beta appreciation day.  or maybe yesterday was.  anyway, my beta knows that the sun rises and sets in her vicinity when it's not orbiting wax, but i don't think she's reading my journal at the mo because she's in a chronic state of crisis.  she's like a lightning rod for it!  and last i heard she was in new jersey for the indefinite future.

on that exciting note, anybody want to see some swedish?  mine isn't really this good.  i wrote it and then wax corrected EVERYTHING, as well as supplying about half the vocabulary.  mmmh this room smells like wax.  hennes äldsta bror martin var familjeöverhuvud, för deras föräldrar kom inte utan stannade kvar i polen.  de var ortodoxa judar, så när hennes äldre syster helen förälskade sig i en man som var inte jude, martin lät henne inte giftasig med friaren.  han tvingade henne att giftasig med en ortodox jude som hon inte kände.  manen kom från mellan östern och giftesig med helen bar för att få ett greencard.  sedan försvann han.  martin vägrade att be om förlåtelse.  deras andra bror höll med martin.  efter det, hade systrarna aldrig något att göra med bröderna igen.

i've 75% finished my star trek livejournal layout, and i may not use it after all. simple might be better, and i just made this one by customizing one of the standard s2s in a couple of minutes. and... i really LIKE it.

Comments

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

My father's mother came to the USA with her sister and two brothers when she was just a young girl. Her oldest brother Martin was [something], [something about ancestors? and Poland?] They were orthodox Jews, so when her older sister Helen fell in love with a man who was not Jewish, Martin did not let her get married to [him?] He made her get married to an orthodox Jew whom she didn't know. The man came from [the middle east?] and got married to Helen in order to get a green card. Then he [left?] her. Martin [somethinged] about the [something.] Their other brother [somethinged] with Martin. After that, the sisters never had anything to do with their brothers again.

Whee! I can read Swedish!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

the head of the family... oops, typo, familjeöverhuvud (familj+över+huvud, so... family overhead?). er. anyway.

...martin was the head of the family, because their parents didn't come but stayed behind in poland.

martin didn't let her marry her suitor.

then he (helen's husband) disappeared.

martin refused to ask forgiveness; their other brother sided with him.

...and the family split in half. (the male half got rich. my parents visited one branch in a very expensive toronto neighborhood the year they lived there. the female half decided judaism was the cause of the trouble and dropped it like a hot potato, which is why i don't actually know anything about it.)

[cimness.livejournal.com]

typo again--vägrade att förlåtelse. maybe you would've got it that way.

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

Nope *g*. I mean, now that you've told me what it means, I can nod and say, "Oh, yes, of course," but no way would I have figured it out on my own.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

heh. neither would i!

i'm terrible at non-latin-based root words. etymologies. y'know.

[ex-thewayout304.livejournal.com]

is swedish a germanic language?

[cimness.livejournal.com]

i believe so. i mean, yeah, old norse is the parent-language of all the scandinavian tongues, and IT came from old germanic or whatever. but i think on the proto indo european family tree the scandinavian languages might be called 'scandinavian' and not 'germanic'.

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

Proto-Germanic had three branches, North, East, and West. Old Norse and its descendents, the modern Scandinavian languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese) are North Germanic. The West Germanic family includes English, Frisian, Dutch (and Afrikaans), and German (and Yiddish). The East Germanic family is extinct, but it included Gothic and Burgundian.