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I Love You
The Nordics saying ”I love you” in their respective languages.
Norway really tries. No, the fish was not an accident. It’s supposed to be there. Fish and skis is the traditional getup for Norwegian men when trying to impress a lady. Flowers and bowties are just fancy modern stuff, but you gotta' keep with the time.
Inspired by this [link]
The little thing at Denmark’s feet is a ghost that will show up in a later comic. I had never drawn it before and doodled it on the top of the page, then realized that it would look cute next to Denmark here.
Sweden is giving Åland an USB key instead of flowers. Then America jump in pointing and yelling, “GEEKS!!!”
What? No, he wouldn’t yell that other thing. They’re not birds with long pink necks, silly head.
There’s a posibility that Iceland isn’t actually asexual, but self-sexual. We will never know, because the result is the same: We’re not getting a piece of him.
Finland with Sister Sweden because nobody else can make him say it. Yes, he has to be all special and say it in a way the rest of us don’t understand! >:C
17th June 2010
480 Comments:
1 month ago #8795801
Sweden and Aland are so cute, I would get a nosebleed if I was a manga character.....
Sweden and Aland are so cute, I would get a nosebleed if I was a manga character.....
2 months ago #8773946
@pineappletoaster
In Norway nynorsk is a subject and bokmål is a subject. There you learn to write and speak. :-)
@pineappletoaster
In Norway nynorsk is a subject and bokmål is a subject. There you learn to write and speak. :-)
2 months ago #8757705
@Fulax I know they are different, but in your previous comment you stated that they are spoken, but they are WRITTEN languages, not spoken. Norwegian is spoken in various dialects, but is written in Bokmål by about 85% of Norwegians. Sorry for the confusion.
@Fulax I know they are different, but in your previous comment you stated that they are spoken, but they are WRITTEN languages, not spoken. Norwegian is spoken in various dialects, but is written in Bokmål by about 85% of Norwegians. Sorry for the confusion.
2 months ago #8754709
@PineappleToaster; a Norwegian friend of mine would beg to disagree. According to him, the languages are very similar, but there are some minor differences. For example: Bokmål only knows female and male nouns, where Nynorsk also has neuters.
Similar - Yes.
Same thing - No.
@PineappleToaster; a Norwegian friend of mine would beg to disagree. According to him, the languages are very similar, but there are some minor differences. For example: Bokmål only knows female and male nouns, where Nynorsk also has neuters.
Similar - Yes.
Same thing - No.
2 months ago #8753804
@Fulax You don't speak Bokmål and Nynorsk, you speak Norwegian. They are different WRITTEN forms of the language.
@Fulax You don't speak Bokmål and Nynorsk, you speak Norwegian. They are different WRITTEN forms of the language.
4 months ago #8687305
@pixy Yes, fairly. The only language that is really unique would have to be Basque.
@pixy Yes, fairly. The only language that is really unique would have to be Basque.
4 months ago #8686647
@jbdemesa
Yup, I know, I was actually discussing this with both my history and Slovak language teachers, that how come French ended up being a Romanic language? Because the Franks were a Germanic tribe, so one would think the countries they establish would end up having a Germanic language (and well, everything east of France actually did), but the French ended up being a Romanic one!
And we kinda agreed that it must've been the influence of the Roman Empire as well as Spain from the south.
But it's interesting, isn't it?
@jbdemesa
Yup, I know, I was actually discussing this with both my history and Slovak language teachers, that how come French ended up being a Romanic language? Because the Franks were a Germanic tribe, so one would think the countries they establish would end up having a Germanic language (and well, everything east of France actually did), but the French ended up being a Romanic one!
And we kinda agreed that it must've been the influence of the Roman Empire as well as Spain from the south.
But it's interesting, isn't it?
4 months ago #8685747
@pixy I was speaking of those four languages specifically which belong to the romance group as you say. "I love you" is a little different in French compared with the other three latin derived languages I mentioned.
Look
Eu te amo -Portuguese
Te amo -Spanish
Ti amo -Italian
Je t'aime -French
The first three ones are quite similar looking while French is different. :P
@pixy I was speaking of those four languages specifically which belong to the romance group as you say. "I love you" is a little different in French compared with the other three latin derived languages I mentioned.
Look
Eu te amo -Portuguese
Te amo -Spanish
Ti amo -Italian
Je t'aime -French
The first three ones are quite similar looking while French is different. :P
4 months ago #8685369
@jbdemesa
That's not entirely correct, as the languages you've mentioned are all part of the Romanic languages. It's a sub-group of the big Indo-European language family, which also contains the Germanic languages - that's where all the Nordic languages belong to, except for Finnish.
Not only is the Finnish not a Germanic language, it's not even an Indo-European one. It belongs to the Uralic language family which also includes Estonian, Hungarian and a bunch of other minor languages used mainly in the most most most northern parts of Europe, like those of the Sami people.
@jbdemesa
That's not entirely correct, as the languages you've mentioned are all part of the Romanic languages. It's a sub-group of the big Indo-European language family, which also contains the Germanic languages - that's where all the Nordic languages belong to, except for Finnish.
Not only is the Finnish not a Germanic language, it's not even an Indo-European one. It belongs to the Uralic language family which also includes Estonian, Hungarian and a bunch of other minor languages used mainly in the most most most northern parts of Europe, like those of the Sami people.
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23 M
"Minä rakastan sinua". Bah, it brings me good memories, that now hurt to remember. Shite mixed feelings. Great theme for a comic though
EDIT: You should make some with the other countries too, saying "I love you" in their respective languages