Thoughts about Swedish vocabulary
Personally, I think Swedish is a rather bland language, at least the Swedish that we use in our everyday language today. However, beneath all this blandness, I have discovered that the language does in fact have some very interesting and intriguing words. In my opinion, Swedish words can be divided into two broad categories, one is the common, boring, bland words category, and the other is the obsolete, but interesting/weird/completely random words category.
In studying for the högskoleprovet (a national Swedish exam as an aid to get accepted to university programmes), for the section where our Swedish vocabulary is tested, I frequently encounter the latter category of wacky words. This morning I for instance learned that there is a specific Swedish word for "inflamed eyelid", which is "vagel". So freaking random, and who the hell ever gets their eyelids inflamed anyway?? Among these words, there are also some that are impossible to pronounce and the pronunciation sounds sooo ugly to my ears, like "ånyo". What the fuck, ånyo?? And another one today, "mellan fyra ögon" apparently means i enrum. What!? Isn't that the most ironic definition of a word ever? So effing misleading.
In studying for the högskoleprovet (a national Swedish exam as an aid to get accepted to university programmes), for the section where our Swedish vocabulary is tested, I frequently encounter the latter category of wacky words. This morning I for instance learned that there is a specific Swedish word for "inflamed eyelid", which is "vagel". So freaking random, and who the hell ever gets their eyelids inflamed anyway?? Among these words, there are also some that are impossible to pronounce and the pronunciation sounds sooo ugly to my ears, like "ånyo". What the fuck, ånyo?? And another one today, "mellan fyra ögon" apparently means i enrum. What!? Isn't that the most ironic definition of a word ever? So effing misleading.
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