fig. 1. effect of several hours of different types of brain-itchy language tasks on cim.

[cimorene]

translating norwegian to english: cim becomes physically and mentally tired but happy and wants to babble a lot.
listening to danish and trying to comprehend: cim becomes anxious and fidgety and wants to whimper a lot.
composing in swedish: cim becomes stroppy and highly irritable and wants to snarl a lot.


i don't know what it means that i just read three wikipedia articles in norwegian without noticing that they weren't in swedish. finally a spelling difference penetrated and i wondered what norwegian was doing at the swedish wiki, whereupon i checked the address bar and saw that i was at no.wikipedia.org. ahahhaha. you'd think the use of "ø" instead of "ö" would have been a clue, even if none of the numerous word differences were. i can't decide if this is hilarious or worrying.

Comments

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

Well, think it as a good practice, since in Finnish university, people are 1)thought automatically to know how to read Swedish, and 2)because of that, they are supposedly able to handle Norwegian and Danish as well.

For some reason, this reasoning doesn't apply to Estonian. I wonder why ;)

[cimness.livejournal.com]

yeah, obviously they do that at åa too, or i wouldn't have to be listening to danish at all. it's actually quite true that we can, but everyone is struggling.