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In Europe they speak European, - right!
Not really. All languages are not variations on English. The direct translation of the Swedish word for fresh water ( sötvatten) would be sweet water too (actually it would be sweetwater since we compound words a lot here...
The German word for it is Süßwasser (pronounced "syecewahsser") where süß means sweet and fresh would be frisch.
If I'm not mistaking myself, it's the same way around with the Spanish language, which would explain Helpman's choice of words. Dulce agua means fresh water, but dulce is sweet and fresh is translated into fresco, right?
Am I still the only one who would like a multilingual version of the SS?
/Tiny
Thanks to Morgan, Tiny Snapshots is up and running again with "Tiny Järvafält" as the latest addition – Go have a look and tell me what you think.
"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent.
I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says,
'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.'
I suppose we all thought that, one way or another." /Robert Oppenheimer on witnessing the first thermonuclear detonation in history.
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