off-topic -> Minnesota or Florida ?

[Masfer]

Hi everybody!
My girlfriend's brother has got a grant and he's going to work in the States :usa for a year. The firm he's going to work in has branches is these two states, so he can choose between them. Actually, we don't have much information about them, apart from what we have got from the internet.
He has almost made up his mind, and Minnesota is the one he likes most.
I also prefer Minnesota, I don't know exactly why :lol:
What do you think about this ?

P.S. It'd be nice to visit my brother in law next summer, but I guess the trip will be very expensive :?

 

[RonBee]

Evidently, your brother does not mind cold weather, or he would not have chosen Minnesota. Does he like snow? :wink:

(Say: "I guess the trip would be very expensive.")



Rhyming Riddles (Fiddle-de-fiddle; try a riddle.)
https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2248

Brief Verse (Couplets)
https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1579

English Idioms
https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1697

 

[Masfer]

re:

We are used to the weather in Madrid. It is cold in winter, with the lowest temperatures around -6°C/20°F and very, very hot in summer nfire:, with temperatures reaching 40°C/104°F. Sometimes it also snows in Madrid :lol:
Anyway, he will have to get used to the weather in Minnesota. Now I am in Denmark and it is also very, very cold, but the worst thing of this weather is that the night falls at 16.30. That's kind of depressing, :wink:
I miss Spanish weather!!! :lol:

ByE!

 

[Tdol]

16.30- that's not bad. Try England- it's grey all day then gets dark around 4. ;-(

 

[RonBee]

Re: re:

We are used to the weather in Madrid. It is cold in winter, with the lowest temperatures around -6°C/20°F and very, very hot in summer nfire:, with temperatures reaching 40°C/104°F. Sometimes it also snows in Madrid :lol:
Anyway, he will have to get used to the weather in Minnesota. Now I am in Denmark and it is also very, very cold, but the worst thing of this weather is that the night falls at 16.30. That's kind of depressing, :wink:
I miss Spanish weather!!! :lol:

ByE!

It reached a high of 62 degrees Fahrenheit today here (St. Louis). (It's unseasonably warm.) The sun sets today at 16:47 (4:47).

(Say: the worst thing about)

 

[Masfer]

re

My girlfriend's brother has finally decided to go to Minnesota 8)
He has lived in London for a year, so he's already used to "dark" and grey days. :wink:

By the way: according to this website,

http://www.dmi.dk/vejr/index.html

the night falls in København (Copenhagen) at 15.47 (with a current temperature of 2.5 C) :|

 

[Tdol]

It's grey and dark here now. ;-|

 

[RonBee]

Re: re

My girlfriend's brother has finally decided to go to Minnesota 8)
He has lived in London for a year, so he's already used to "dark" and grey days. :wink:

By the way: according to this website,

http://www.dmi.dk/vejr/index.html

the night falls in København (Copenhagen) at 15.47 (with a current temperature of 2.5 C) :|

That (2.5C) is about 36.5 degrees Fahrenheit, which isn't so bad from my viewpoint. (It's 27 degrees right now, and that's below freezing.) It looks like you're going to have a rainy weekend. :wink:

 

[Masfer]

It looks like you're going to have a rainy weekend.

Yeah, here it is always raining or spotting the rain (I don't know whether this expression is right) :roll: but I am already used to it so "No problem", 8)

By the way, how do you say "it is almost raining" or "it's starting to rain" with other words (like "spot the rain") ?

ByE!

 

[RonBee]

It looks like you're going to have a rainy weekend.

Yeah, here it is always raining or spotting the rain (I don't know whether this expression is right) :roll: but I am already used to it so "No problem", 8)

By the way, how do you say "it is almost raining" or "it's starting to rain" with other words (like "spot the rain") ?

Most likely:

• It's about to rain.
  It's starting to rain.
  It looks like rain.

I found it interesting how the Danish spell radar. Also, the days of the week are somewhat similar to the German days of the week. Isn't Danish a Scandinavian language? (As a result of Danish settlement of part of Britain, English has borrowed many words from Danish.)

 

[Masfer]

re

I found it interesting how the Danish spell radar. Also, the days of the week are somewhat similar to the German days of the week. Isn't Danish a Scandinavian language? (As a result of Danish settlement of part of Britain, English has borrowed many words from Danish.)

Yes. it is a Scandinavian language.
Danish is quite hard to learn :wink: I've tried to learn it and I have to admit that the pronunciation is terribly difficult. At the beginning nobody could understand the words I said in Danish (addresses, names of places ...) Now, they can't understand me either :lol: but at least I know how to pronounce these strange sounds: æ, ø and å

ByE!

 

[RonBee]

Re: re

I found it interesting how the Danish spell radar. Also, the days of the week are somewhat similar to the German days of the week. Isn't Danish a Scandinavian language? (As a result of Danish settlement of part of Britain, English has borrowed many words from Danish.)

Yes. it is a Scandinavian language.
Danish is quite hard to learn :wink: I've tried to learn it and I have to admit that the pronunciation is terribly difficult. At the beginning nobody could understand the words I said in Danish (addresses, names of places ...) Now, they can't understand me either :lol: but at least I know how to pronounce these strange sounds: æ, ø and å

ByE!

Interesting. Currently, at the Delphi forum they are discussing the Norse influence on the English language. The Norse invaded Britain not only from the north, but also from the east and the southeast. Those Norsemen were quite busy. ;-)

(Say: "They still don't understand me.")

 

[Tdol]

The heavy Dane presence in the north of England, against a heavier number of Saxons in the south accounts for the basic differences in accent. ;-)

 

[RonBee]

The heavy Dane presence in the north of England, against a heavier number of Saxons in the south accounts for the basic differences in accent. ;-)

Interesting. I never thought of that before. It does, I am fairly sure, also have to do with the differences in the place names. (I got that from David Crystal's book.) The Danish occupation (and the Viking invasions) had a significant influence on the English language as a whole. It is also, I believe, where the term Danegeld came from.

 

[Tdol]

Alfred the Great made a treaty with them and divided the territory, later united under a single monarch.

 

[RonBee]

Alfred the Great made a treaty with them and divided the territory, later united under a single monarch.

That would be the treaty between Alfred and Guthrum. :wink:

Some of the commonest words in modern English came into the language at that time. Here are a few:

• skirt, sky, skin, both, same, get, give, they, them, their, are, again, anger, awkward, bag, band, bank, birth, brink, bull, cake, call, clip, crawl, crook, die, dirt, dregs, egg, flat, fog, freckle, gap, gasp, guess, happy, husband, ill, keel, kid, knife, law, leg, loan, low, muggy, neck, odd, outlaw, race, raise, ransack, reindeer, rid, root, rugged, scant, scare, scowl, scrap, seat, seem, silver, sister, skill, sly, smile, snub, sprint, steak, take, thrift, Thursday, tight, trust, want, weak, window

 

[Tdol]

Wouldn't some of the other days come in, too? Wednsday and Friday are also Nordic. ;-)

 

[Casiopea]

Wouldn't some of the other days come in, too? Wednsday and Friday are also Nordic. ;-)

Technically, not Nordic or Old Norse but Anglo-Saxon. The Vikings started invading around 800 AD, whereas the Saxons invaded much earlier, around the 5th century.

The Anglo-Saxons substituted Norse gods for four Roman gods.

Moon = Monandæg
Mars = Tiwesdæg (Tiw, god of war)
Mercury = Wodneesdæg (Woden, god of wisdom)
Jupiter = Thresdæg (Thor, god of thunder)
Venus = Frigedæg (Friga, goddess of love)
Saturn = Sæternesdæg
Sun = Sunnandæg

Cool posters
http://www.combase.com/~westilson/daysweek.htm

 

[Tdol]

Thanks for that and the link- they are cool posters. I have added the link to our link database. ;-)