*-glish
Many people are familiar with the concept of *-glish, where * represents the name of some other language that is combined with English. For example:
Spanish + English = Spanglish
French + English = Frenglish
Chinese + English = Chinglish
German, for some reason, is so special that it gets to call itself by its original German name, so that German + English = Denglish
Here is an example of Denglish to illustrate the concept:
Ich bin awesome!
*-glish is very popular among immigrants' children who don't really know their parents' tongue and beginning foreign language students who want to sound cool.
Today, a friend and I decided to speak in "Swedish". It was a rather spur of the moment thing. Of course, since neither of us is Swedish, we cleverly created combined Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and English to make Sweddannorglish.
Sindre: are you onlina?
Venaja: joda
Venaja: och du?
Sindre: jag är onlina, jaa
Venaja: :D Jag är glad!
Sindre: jeg også!
Venaja: Vardan är du?
Sindre: jag är arbeidsledictk, og vantrivast med dat
Of course, I know nothing about Swedish and found out later that "vardan" (hey, at least I'm creative) should actually have been "hur". Hur. Who would have guessed?
Venaja's Recipe For Writing Swedish
- Replace every "e" with "a"
- Replace every "a" with "ä"
- Let simmer for 5 minutes. Serve with horseradish.
Spanish + English = Spanglish
French + English = Frenglish
Chinese + English = Chinglish
German, for some reason, is so special that it gets to call itself by its original German name, so that German + English = Denglish
Here is an example of Denglish to illustrate the concept:
Ich bin awesome!
*-glish is very popular among immigrants' children who don't really know their parents' tongue and beginning foreign language students who want to sound cool.
Today, a friend and I decided to speak in "Swedish". It was a rather spur of the moment thing. Of course, since neither of us is Swedish, we cleverly created combined Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and English to make Sweddannorglish.
Sindre: are you onlina?
Venaja: joda
Venaja: och du?
Sindre: jag är onlina, jaa
Venaja: :D Jag är glad!
Sindre: jeg også!
Venaja: Vardan är du?
Sindre: jag är arbeidsledictk, og vantrivast med dat
Of course, I know nothing about Swedish and found out later that "vardan" (hey, at least I'm creative) should actually have been "hur". Hur. Who would have guessed?
Venaja's Recipe For Writing Swedish
- Replace every "e" with "a"
- Replace every "a" with "ä"
- Let simmer for 5 minutes. Serve with horseradish.