The Republic of Heaven

The name AEsahaettr

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Postby Will » Tue Aug 26, 2003 9:37 pm

I got a C in German :D
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Postby eloquent » Wed Aug 27, 2003 12:10 am

errr.... gut gemacht :D
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Postby Shivy » Wed Aug 27, 2003 2:24 pm

I actually understood part of that conversation.. yey

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Postby Louhi » Wed Aug 27, 2003 3:00 pm

I've studied Russian (not very much, but I understand it and can speak some as well) and... it's a very fascinating language, but the grammar is about as complex as the Finnish grammar, plus there's the different alphabet to learn... so it's not really something you can study lightly - if you really want to learn it.
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Postby Shivy » Wed Aug 27, 2003 3:03 pm

i know.. i started once, but just don't have the time to learn it properly.. but i think i may be able to take it at uni along with whatever i decide to do..
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Postby TonyOn » Mon Sep 08, 2003 3:45 pm

Studying languages takes time... I don't feel that I've ever started learning a language from scratch, english you learn wether you like it or not, and german is similar to swedish...
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Postby Pyr » Mon Sep 08, 2003 7:10 pm

i think languages are so cool im taking chinese right now and i have way to much homework to take another but ill probably take spanish or japanese after
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Postby jessia » Tue Sep 09, 2003 2:35 am

canto or mando? or something else?
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Postby BenRoshi » Tue Sep 09, 2003 4:13 am

um....
no hablo espanol....
I'm in spanish 3....
Might be neat to learn some new ones in college, japanese sounds intersting with its crazy grammar, and maybe some old languages would be neat.
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Postby jessia » Tue Sep 09, 2003 10:12 pm

jessia wrote:canto or mando? or something else?

oops, cantonese or mandarin? or something else?

i wish i was taking spanish again, but damn 12s unenrolling. o well, maybe next year... french for now (don't like my teacher much though).
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Postby Pyr » Wed Sep 10, 2003 2:16 am

oh mandarin
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Postby auður » Mon Feb 02, 2004 3:37 pm

Bumping up this old post, just for fun ;) Fun conversation about languages!

Anyway, what I wanted to say, is that I'm Icelandic, and I believe Æsahættr is an Icelandic name, or at least based on Icelandic. "Æsar" is what the heathen gods are/were called, and "hætta" means danger. So it comes pretty close to meaning god-destroyer.

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Postby eloquent » Mon Feb 02, 2004 6:11 pm

That explanation sounds very plausible, since I suppose the authority was a kind of heathen god. Welcome btw.
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Postby Angel to follow » Thu Feb 05, 2004 9:09 pm

What the hell?
English for all us french-as-a-second language cretins please!
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Postby Starshade » Fri Feb 06, 2004 10:45 am

Not a good sign.
Just to add to the topic considering that it is answered, Aesir was the home of the gods, so any words based around that mean God probably.

Also, can anyone find a Finnish translator online, so that I can understand it in English? Please??
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Postby Daniel » Fri Feb 06, 2004 11:34 pm

Err... wasn't that Swedish? It has too many consonants in the wrong places to be Finnish. In any case, google is your friend.
*sigh* Well, at least you tried.
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Postby Angel to follow » Sun Feb 08, 2004 7:35 pm

I can do a wicked accent but i can't speak it.
(just trying to be part of the club, only joking)
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Postby Erik » Mon Dec 06, 2004 7:36 pm

Ja e hälften finlandssvensk âcksâ! Tyvärr kan man int tillverka ett svensk o (a me boll) med den här jävla belgiska keyboarden...
Does 'belgiska' have anything to do with belgium?
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Postby Erik » Mon Dec 06, 2004 7:38 pm

Btw, aehasahaettr means god-destroyer, it's said in TAS. on page 346 if i'm not mistaking
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