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Old 05-07-2006, 06:40 AM   #1
uss
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Could anybody who is proficient in Swedish tell me if there are any errors, grammatical or stylistic, in the following poem:

Jag bor i Estland,
Naturligtvis är det ett bra land.
Här är många kossor
och fiskar och nassar också.

Oi, förlåt, varför är det land så klen?
Nå, det är många mäktiga landar i närheten,
Till exempel Ryssland och Tyskland jodå,
Och glöm aldrig: Sverige.

Men nu är vi mycket ivrig,
Vår land så fantastiskt ljuvlig.
Vår hjärter består av dygdiga guld,
länge leve Estland!


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Old 05-07-2006, 06:58 AM   #2
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Well, I made the following changes. Someone will probably come along and correct me later.

Jag bor i Estland,
Naturligtvis är det ett bra land.
Här finns många kossor
och fiskar och grisar(?)* också.

Oj, förlåt, varför är vårt land så klent?
Nå, det finns många mäktiga länder i närheten,
Till exempel Ryssland och Tyskland, jodå,
och glöm aldrig: Sverige.

Men nu är vi mycket ivriga,
Vårt land är så fantastiskt ljuvligt.
Våra hjärtan består av dygdigt guld,
länge leve Estland!

*"Nassar" is slang for neonazis and I think you were trying to say pigs?

Some sentences are a bit unusual but they work.

EDIT: Well it's a start anyways.

EDIT2: Bithron, do you agree with my changes? You are from Sweden right?

[ 05-07-2006, 08:21 AM: Message edited by: bjorn ]
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Old 05-07-2006, 07:48 AM   #3
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May I ask what it's for? Sounds interesting...
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Old 05-07-2006, 12:09 PM   #4
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Quote:
Originally posted by bjorn:
Well, I made the following changes. Someone will probably come along and correct me later.

Jag bor i Estland,
Naturligtvis är det ett bra land.
Här finns många kossor
och fiskar och grisar(?)* också.

Oj, förlåt, varför är vårt land så klent?
Nå, det finns många mäktiga länder i närheten,
Till exempel Ryssland och Tyskland, jodå,
och glöm aldrig: Sverige.

Men nu är vi mycket ivriga,
Vårt land är så fantastiskt ljuvligt.
Våra hjärtan består av dygdigt guld,
länge leve Estland!

*"Nassar" is slang for neonazis and I think you were trying to say pigs?

Some sentences are a bit unusual but they work.

EDIT: Well it's a start anyways.

EDIT2: Bithron, do you agree with my changes? You are from Sweden right?
Sounds good, but I want to add that "nassar" does mean pigs, but is a less formal, and more "childish" word. An English equivalent would "piggies".

Same thing goes with "kossor"; the more formal word would be "kor".
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Old 05-07-2006, 01:56 PM   #5
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I've never heard anyone refer to pigs as "nassar" but that may be a dialectal thing, I know that it can mean piggies but not to me.
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Old 05-07-2006, 02:29 PM   #6
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Khmm, quite a few flaws. I expected as much. I created this with my 0.8 years knowledge of Swedish plus an Internet dictionary.

Aanyway, as one might suspect, it's for school. We have to create a poem about Estonia. The content might be slightly lame, but that's okay - I don't really wish to use too much time on such silly tasks anyway. [img]tongue.gif[/img]


In any case, thanks a lot. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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