LillaGrisen's "Thank you"-thread

@Hoplass Argh! Can't believe I forgot to thank you here and put you on the list while I was thanking you in the Gifting Directory! Thank you so much for the gifts, they will help out a lot in getting the Jet Set! :smiley: And you have now been added to the list!

"LillaGrisen;15640325" wrote:
Thank you so much, @wannie00, for the Hi-Low Sparkle Dress, especially as I see you tried multiple times to send it! :smiley:

I also see that you attempted to send the "One Stone to Rule Them All Necklace", but it seems it didn't go through. I hope you weren't charged for it, and if you were I hope you'll be compensated by EA one way or another.

Thank you once again for the dress! I really appreciate it!

Lol! I had such a difficult time getting it to go through. I'll try to send the necklace again. I'm pretty sure it doesn't deduct my simpoints multiple times. Enjoy!

@wannie00 Oh, no, if it's too much trouble just don't bother! I was just worried you might've lost some sp in vain. Sounds like you supposedly didn't, which is a relief! :relieved:

@LillaGrisen It's no trouble! I finally got it to work! I was determined! I've got the points and wanted to use them it was just weird that it wouldn't go through.

Varsågod! And to be fair, it's easy to forget when people know (are learning!) something other than English, it seems to be so rare anymore that English-speakers will branch out, it's usually the other way around (at least in my limited experience).

You're very welcome for the gifties, I had a couple extra points and decided to toss them your way for being so kind and patient with my questionable language skills and lack of little dots :mrgreen:

Oh my goodness, and now I must say tack så mycket to you as well for the gifties! I did manage to work out the gist of the Swedish but did use the translate to make sure <3

@creativemetaphor I saw your comment a couple of days back and was like "when I get the time, I have to reply". Of course, I then forgot all about it :cold_sweat:

But you're very welcome for the gifts! I don't think I need that much patience with your Swedish-skills, they're not questionable at all - I blame the lack of dots on your keyboard :wink: (unless your keyboard is Swedish. Then I blame it on you :lol:)
I also see no shame in using a translator to check if you understood a word/sentence correctly. Truth be told I do it all the time with English :kissing_closed_eyes:

By the way, no that you have to answer this question if you feel like it's too personal, but I was wondering why you are learning Swedish? I'm curious since it isn't exactly the most useful language (seeing how you could fit most of Sweden's population in NYC) and I can't imagine you started just because you wanted to know the origin of "common" words such as smorgasbord, ombudsman, gauntlet and tungsten :kissing: (useless trivia: tungsten literally means "heavy stone", but the metal itself goes by the name volfram in Swedish)

@LillaGrisen :lol: I do that all the time! (the whole I'll reply when I have a moment and then forget!)

I decided to learn Swedish since min morfars foraldrar kommer fram Sverige. (forgot how to make kommer past tense) So I'm a quarter Swedish. I'm also poking at Irish since I also have a lot of Irish heritage as well.

And no, I don't have a Swedish keyboard but I'm also being a little bit lazy, I *could* still figure it out...

And tungsten!! I know! :lol: I was laughing so hard when I figured that one out!

I do listen to some Swedish music (or well, Nordic anyway.) And no, I don't mean ABBA (but I do like them). I have some Garmarna, Hedningarna, and Gjallarhorn CDs, and some other random stuff off youtube that I like. And of course the movie The 13th Warrior, cool to hear the dialogue at the beginning (I'm guessing probably Norwegian or Icelandic?)

@creativemetaphor Oh, geez, three generations back, now that's a bit more complicated :sweat_smile: I'd probably do something like "min s föräldrar" if that makes sense (it probably doesn't for now, but I'll try to explain). In this instance I think it would be something like "min mammas farföräldrar" (my mom's father's parents).
Also, I just want to make sure you are aware that Swedish has different words depending on if you're talking about maternal grandmothers/grandfathers or paternal grandmothers/grandfathers. "Mormor" (lit. mother-mother) is only used for example for maternal grandmothers, whereas paternal grandmothers are called "farmor" (lit. father-mother).

That's awesome with the Hobbit :lol: I wonder sometimes who thought that those spellings made any sense whatsoever. I remember when I was in 7th grade (I think) we got an assignment in English class where we were supposed to prepare a presentation about something related to Ireland. I, as the fantasy-fantast I am, chose of course to do a presentation about Irish folklore and mythological creatures, since they have some pretty nice - and not to mention famous - ones including the banshee, the dullahan and leprechauns. Imagine my surprise when I found out that the "shee" in banshee was originally spelt "sidhe" :joy:

I've heard that as well, though I thought I'd omit that since I really didn't bother to check for any reliable source to confirm it. School has broken me, lol. Now I always feel a need to find a reliable source to confirm what I want to say if I want to say it :sweat_smile:
I'd like to learn Iceladic some day, though. How cool wouldn't that be, to be able to go around telling people that I basically can speak Old Norse? :mrgreen:

When you say "medieval reenactment", do you mean like larping? Do you reenact certain events and the characters that participated in them or do you make your own stories based on the Middle Ages?

I also like learning about the medieval time period. I mean, I'm fascinated by most history before 19th century, but I think the Middle Ages are just far enough to make it "mysterious", but not so far that I have to read about an intrigue-riddled empire commiting cultural genocide (at least when it comes to European history).

As for visiting Sweden I think you'll find it rather disappointing :confused: Unfortunately we're not as much vikings as we are politcally correct. This is probably what you'll find:


*see Edit 2: Not sure if this would interest you, but we actually do have a show in Sweden called "Allt för Sverige" (google tells me it's called the Great Swedish Adventure in the US), where Americans with Swedish heritage come to Sweden in search of their ancestors and to learn more about the country. Just thought I'd put it out there in case you ever decide to try and find where your Swedish ancestors lived :wink: If nothing else, I think it might be available in the US as well (don't take my word for it!), so you could probably watch it and learn some crappy Swedish (their Swedish-lessons usually consist of slightly outdated expression that were used mainly in the 80s or something. Certainly not expression I've used casually in my lifetime :lol:)

Watching this huge comment I really wish I could give you a TL;DR, but I'm not sure how. If you read all of it, I'm so sorry to have put you through this :cry:

Edit: Forgot about the last part. I totally agree that some songs just have such a weird rythm you can't even tell what they're singing. I, for example, really enjoy metal with influences of opera and classical music (I think the genre is called symphonic metal?), but sometimes they just sing in such a high-pitched voice I can barely follow the lyrics even when they're written down :expressionless:

Edit 2: Just realised I actually have no idea if you're American. :cold_sweat: I just assumed you were. So sorry for that :fearful: It's just that most English-speaking people here seem to be :astonished:

@LillaGrisen :lol: Yep, American. It *is* a safe assumption ;)