Subject: ministers, language and vikings (obSal)
From: The Laughing Man (the_laughing_man@spray.se)
Date: Wed Dec 05 2001 - 05:27:35 GMT
>She's a minister, with a degree from the
>Harvard School of Divinity. And
>I don't know why I know this, but her husband
>is a chef.
I know why you do, Ces – it’s part of that beaver-coated stuff. It’s just you.
Guess all that religious contemplating of Sal Sr.'s (*obSal*) did its thing on young Margaret, btw.
(And for all of you language-interested people out there, I might add that the word “minister” in Swedish is only used for ‘minister of state’, ‘minister of foreign affairs’ etc, never with church people; so I directly associated Maggie of being into politics. “Komminister”, however is a religious title, which sounds quite similar to “Kommunister”, Swedish for communists, something I thought very funny as a child. Well, actually I still do.)
Even more bt-totally unrelated-w: Scottie, I watched the Stockholm Historical Museum exhibition on Vikings this weekend, and I didn’t quite know they founded Dublin and all. At least I got that impression. Implicit Swedish Nationalism on the behalf of the staff, perhaps. It was one of those “look at the artefacts and judge yourself”-exhibitions, so they didn’t concentrate on the structural parts too much. Hate that – I need someone give me structure; after a while, a million battle axes and old stones with inscriptions like “Thor made this stone in memory of his son Snorre, who was big and just, and died in childbirth” (approximately), you feel a bit lost.
No more rambling. ‘Nuff said, like my other alter ego, The Thing, used to say!
/tlm
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