Nordic random thoughts

ush wrote: »

Det är väl samma sak.

Indeed, they are quite interchangeable but there is a difference.

Another one Swedes often get wrong is how to use "spendera", from English "spend".
In English you spend money and you spend time.
In Swedish you spenderar pengar or tillbringar tid.
However, many say spenderar tid which is still perfectly well understood and accepted.

biko wrote: »

Indeed, they are quite interchangeable but there is a difference.

Another one Swedes often get wrong is how to use "spendera", from English "spend".
In English you spend money and you spend time.
In Swedish you spenderar pengar or tillbringar tid.
However, many say spenderar tid which is still perfectly well understood and accepted.

Språket förändras hela tiden. "Tillbringar" funkar inte i talspråk.

feargale wrote: »

Ok. Trouble is it's very difficult to produce an umlaut on my tablet. Let me try : À à/ à/ @ a@a å à/ à/ seee?

You could always use ASCII codes, a 4 or 5 digit code for letters-characters which are not in the English alphabet.

May I suggest another way to get de tre sista åäö when you write in Swedish?



What I do is I have added Swedish as a language in my computer and then all I need to do is go to the lower taskbar and click on the little EN button and choose Swedish as the keyboard language instead of English, the åäö are then available as follows:
ö is the button to right of L, on my keyboard it's the button with the colon and semi-colon ; :

and å is above ö and ä, the button to the right of P, which on my keyboard is brackets { [ .
The capitals ÅÄÖ are available then as soon as you use the Shift key with these buttons specified above.



Only problem is that the original symbols ; : ’ @ { all shift to different buttons when you change to Swedish language, not only that but practically all the symbols across the keyboard have shifted. But at least you don’t have to use all the ASCII codes.



I have used this to write my Swedish and it works well. You get used to it quickly, also I am including a link below from wikipedia showing what a Swedish keyboard looks like so you can find the symbols that have shifted. I have a copy of this beside me for quick reference.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/KB_Swe...
and read more about the differences between keyboards here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout
Finally, and before I forget, most importantly how do you add a language?
copied from Windows Help:
To show the Language bar
Right-click the taskbar, point to Toolbars, and then click Language bar.
Once the Language bar is displayed, you can right-click it to display options for changing its settings, including docking it on the taskbar or displaying it vertically instead of horizontally.
Note
If the Language bar is not listed in the Toolbars menu, you do not have multiple input languages installed on your computer. You need to add additional languages using Regional and Language Options in Control Panel. For more information, see Add an input language.
and
to add an input language I open the Control Panel and choose ‘Clock, Language and Region’ and then Regional Languages, then Change the Region then Keyboards and Languages, and follow the prompts.
Add an input language
You can edit documents in multiple languages by changing the language (the input language) in which you type. Input languages are included with Windows, but you need to add them to your list of languages before you can use them.
Click to open Regional and Language Options.
Click the Keyboards and Languages tab, and then click Change keyboards.
Under Installed services, click Add.
Double-click the language you want to add, double-click the text services you want to add, select the text services options you want to add, and then click OK.
I hope that makes sense, if not, get back to me…
I wrote the above based on an older computer than I currently use, so you may have to look in the Control Panel to find where Languages is hiding.
regards
liz

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Lady Chuckles wrote: »

Hvad med alla som pratar svenska? Vi är också rätt så häftiga :pac:


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