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Andreas @andreasthlm1.bsky.social · 28m

I'm watching a Lithuanian film and something is puzzling me: whenever someone replies 'yes' to a question, they say something that, to me, sounds like 'ja' where I'd expect to hear 'taip' ('yes' in Lithuanian). 'Jā' is Latvian for 'yes' - perhaps it's a colloquialism in Lithuanian? Nesuprantu.

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Andreas @andreasthlm1.bsky.social · 4h

Fellini! ❤️

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Andreas @andreasthlm1.bsky.social · 4h

The dress code for tonight is 'laid-back'.
I am sampling a really nice Italian wine from Molise. Alla salute!🥂

Beardy and hairy man in his late 40's takes a selfie holding a glass of red wine in one hand. Some bookshelves and an armchair in the background. The man wears a dark blue vest and light blue pj bottoms.

A bottle of Italian red wine from the region of Molise. The name of the wine is 'Molí'.

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Andreas @andreasthlm1.bsky.social · 9h

Höst på Södermalm.
Autumn in Södermalm, (Stockholm).

Beardy man in his late 40's takes a selfie in the sunshine. In the background, yellow and orange trees and traditional red Swedish cottages.

View of some traditional red Swedish cottages and a tree with pretty orange and yellow leaves. The sky is a vivid light blue with some patches of white clouds.

Autumnal view with red bushes and yellow leaves on the ground. The weather is sunny and the light warm.

The crown of a tree completely yellow against a blue sky and the sun.

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Andreas @andreasthlm1.bsky.social · 13h

Happy #Caturday

A man takes a selfie with his cat, a blue-eyed snow Bengal. The face of the man isn't visible. He's scratching the cat under the chin.

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Andreas @andreasthlm1.bsky.social · 1d

I had tapas in my favourite Spanish restaurant tonight and rounded the excellent dinner off with a glass of Calvados. Happiness is certainly ephemeral, but also definitely complete right now. :)

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Andreas @andreasthlm1.bsky.social · 1d

I took the day off and this afternoon I went to see Joachim Trier's "Sentimental Value", and I can't even start to tell you how good it is. Renate Reinsve is divine.
Go see it if you get the chance!

The poster of the film 'Sentimental Value" by the Norwegian director Joachim Trier.

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Andreas @andreasthlm1.bsky.social · 1d

Hungarian...not sure I'm interested in reading László Krasznahorkai in the original enough to learn his native language. I don't usually read literature in translation, but Hungarian feels like a steep hill to climb, far from the comfortable familiarity of Indo-European.

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Andreas @andreasthlm1.bsky.social · 1d

The example given is Swedish, but the same applies in Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese and Danish.

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Andreas @andreasthlm1.bsky.social · 1d

The Scandinavian languages don't have definite articles (English 'the'), and definiteness is expressed by means of endings that change according to gender, number and case instead.
'Dog' is 'hund', 'the dog' is 'hunden', 'the dogs' is 'hundarna', for example, where -en and -na are definite endings.

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Andreas @andreasthlm1.bsky.social · 2d

Have I ever told you about the indefinite and definite forms of Scandinavian nouns and how it all works? Yes? Yes. I'm sure at some point I must have. Never mind, reader.

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Andreas @andreasthlm1.bsky.social · 4d

You're putting us all on the same page. "Nordic" is a geopolitical concept, not a common identity.

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