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"Sojourner - You may have created a monster! LOL" So now I am wondering who that Monster I maybe created might be. As far as I can see there are three options: Freeman14 Mikhail Gennadyevich Delyagin The Lady who has a username that reminds me of my coffee break. - and then there are of cause one last option: myself. So which one to choose...? By the way most people here address me by my first name: Mogens. You are welcome to do the same. Bog da te blogoslovi. Mogens I Can Explain It To You, But I Can’t Understand It For You Good News For Christian Man ABP "REVELATION"
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Hi Corrie. My name is pronounced Mwens by most people who speak English. In Danish we pronounce it with a soft "g", Moens. It comes from Latin: Magnus. Well done. I was wondering if you would think my greeting was Russian (which you mentioned in your previous Post, or you would figure out it was Bulgarian. And it means exactly the same as I use as greeting at the end of each of my comments. Mungu akubariki Mogens Ps. Couldn't help it. Had to make a new one... I Can Explain It To You, But I Can’t Understand It For You Good News For Christian Man ABP "REVELATION"
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Swahili is based on the English pronouncing of the letters "W" is mostly pronounced like a long "u" when in the middle og a word. The words are sometimes spelled with an " ' " like in ng'ombe (a cow). Most white people (wazungu. One white man is mzungu. Comes from "kizunguzungu", "To run around in circles".) pronounce it n'gombe. - and that's something very different. I can (by looking it up) see you master Celtic and Navajo language. How come? I like and love languages. The sound of the words. And I happen to live in other countries for a short period of time. Just one more: Turaba n'tu bona n'gana - see you. Mogens I Can Explain It To You, But I Can’t Understand It For You Good News For Christian Man ABP "REVELATION"
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Correction: I happened to live in ... I Can Explain It To You, But I Can’t Understand It For You Good News For Christian Man ABP "REVELATION"
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Well, to me this is quite an interesting and funny chat. But people like me has to be aware of, some people get tired when we repeatedly come back and write a new comment... Like you I have a smattering of languages I picked up somewhere. Beside the languages I know. I always found Gaelic - Celtic a fascinating language... beside Navajo (by some reason I don't know). When I was a kid (looooong time ago) I read books of adventures. And a few of them set stage in Africa. At least one of them was staged in an area of Africa where the local population spoke kiSwahili. And I remember I wanted to learn that language. Two to three month of 1994 and all of 1995 (two periods) I worked in Tanzania, Africa. Went to a language study - in kiSwahili. At least 90.000.000 people in Africa speaks kiSwahili. The language Xhosa from South Africa has some words similar to words in kiSwahili. Well they have a lot of greetings that you have to remember to use. And make the right answers. Else you are very impolite. Tutaonana - tu (we) ta (will) ona (see) na (each other). Saying that a million times makes me wonder what it is in the LOCAL language - kiN'yambo. Turaba n'tu bona n'gana.. Likewise learned the special respectful greetings you use when greeting someone older or wiser - or maybe having a higher social status. So the Secretary of the Church, Kaungia, was very pleased and positive when at a feast I managed to greet him in his own language, kiN'yambo (the "ki" means language or language of ...). Swahili is what the call "a living language". that means when new things come, they adopt the word for it from other languages mainly English. But they don't like it when foreign nouns and names ends with a consonant. So they add an "i". So you can imagine what "beisikeli" is and maybe "kipilefti" - roundabout (they are driving in the left side of the road.) The tool, pipe cutter, is called (translated) machine-for-cutting-a-pipe - Machine ya kucata bomba. Uendelea na bariki ya Mungu - Go with the peace of God. Mwensi I Can Explain It To You, But I Can’t Understand It For You Good News For Christian Man ABP "REVELATION"
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On your Blog?? Don't be so childish. I Can Explain It To You, But I Can’t Understand It For You Good News For Christian Man ABP "REVELATION"
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Well then. Let's take some geography. There are a lake close to Webster, Massachusetts that's got an Indian name: Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg. It means something like "I fish on my side and you fish on your side, and we both stay away from the middle". - If you can pronounce the Indian name in a proper way, I will buy you the next cup of coffee... The local people eventually called it Lake Webster because so many foreigners spelled it wrong. Kilimanjaro - the African mountain given to Queen Victoria as a birthday gift by Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany is really called Kilima Njaro - meaning the Tiny Mountain, Njaro. Lima is the word for mountain, and the prefix "ki" tells of something huge or big, but in a lovely way mentioned as tiny. If you look at the border of Tanzania/Kenya, you can see the mountain is in Tanzania. But the border is not straight. -and thanks for taking the time to be off topic and have some fun. Blessings Mogens I Can Explain It To You, But I Can’t Understand It For You Good News For Christian Man ABP "REVELATION"
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Just an add: When I wrote above I knew there is a meaning of "Njaro" as well, but I didn't remember. So I looked it up and found out it's "shining" or "shiny". So it's the Tiny Shining Mountain. Shining because there are snow on the mountaintop. Blessings Mogens I Can Explain It To You, But I Can’t Understand It For You Good News For Christian Man ABP "REVELATION"
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Venti caramel frappucino with a quad shot of espresso, double cupped and with whip on its way... I think I will take a plain Danish mug of coffee. .. Umble. Not pronouncing the "H" like in Spanish or French. Likewise it seems to me like Mexia is pronounced the Spanish way. We have a surname in Denmark I would use if I ever should travel incognito to France: Høst. (Harvest). I am not sure you are able to get the second letter "ø" but it is a mix of two letters "o" and "e". My reason: "H" is not pronounced in France when it's the first letter. The second one they don't have, and "st" is not pronounced when at the end of the word. Denmark is a big Country. We have the cities of Paris; Dover; Korinth; Rome and Copenhagen. And it won't take more than 3 hours to drive from one to the other. In the area I come from (close to the German border) we have a small town called Hydevad. Locals like me pronounce it Hiwi. Bredebro (Wide Bridge) in the same area is pronounced Brawe. (- looks somehow like Swahili...) I could tell of other towns and cities, but it takes to know the Danish for the reader. Blessings Mogens I Can Explain It To You, But I Can’t Understand It For You Good News For Christian Man ABP "REVELATION"
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We have 3 letters more in our alphabet. They are each made out of two letters: Æ = A + E; Ø = O + E; Å = A + A.. These letters is not part of the French alphabet, so they don't know them and can't pronounce them. I didn't get the one of Copenhagen in the back pocket... Blessings Mogens I Can Explain It To You, But I Can’t Understand It For You Good News For Christian Man ABP "REVELATION"
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We have a different pronunciation of the letters than in English. In English you pronounce "J" more like dj. E.g John. We have a shorter more sharp pronunciation. The "letter + letter" ones in our alphabet is three extra sounds we have in our language. So they become new letters. Å (A +A) is our word for a small stream (water). It's the first letter in the Danish word for open, and the second letter in Danish for maybe. Ø (O + E) is our word for an island. It is pronounced something like what's left if you pronounce "WORD" and then remove the WRD-sound. It in the Danish word for butter or our word for the colour red. Æ (A + E) is the first letter in the Danish word for apple. So if you go to Google Translate and type the English words and ask for the Danish translation, you can hear it pronounced. We have dialects like mine, where the words are different or shortened. Somehow like the dialect of Hillbillies: "No killin', sept for critters.". Now my dialect is known to be hard to understand for people outside our area. E.g "I am at the island in the stream I am" (Danish: Jeg er på(aa) øen(oe) i åen(aa) jeg er) becomes: A æ(ae) å(aa) æ(ae) ø(oe) i æ(ae) å(aa) a æ(ae). So we can make a whole meaningful sentence using single letters. We have a few additional sounds that is not to be found in the alphabet. And a small difference in pronouncing changes the meaning of the word/sentence. Danish itself is not hard to spell. But we have a few words with letters not pronounced. And more words meaning different things compared to English. As I wrote earlier; Danish is spoken in Heaven. It takes an Eternity to learn. Blessings Mogens I Can Explain It To You, But I Can’t Understand It For You Good News For Christian Man ABP "REVELATION"
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Your story makes me want to ask the question if pastors and people of Texas has a better contact and intimate fellowship with God? Because how many people can afford to pay 10.000 dollars per minute? Let's pray... It reminds me of my brother who migrated to New York. After living there for some time he one day passed by a HUGE church building. It was marvellous. Made with marble walls; roof of pure gold; a HUGE double door in cedar. In front at the HUGE parking lot there was plenty of limousines and very expensive European cars like Bugatti; Ferrari and Lamborghini. The door handles was made of pure gold and the glass in the golden windows out of sapphire. After standing there for quite a while overwhelmed by what he saw, he decided to make an application for becoming a member of the church. So he went to his home and made one. After a month he received a reply from the leaders of the church, that he could not become a member. He felt a bit down, but kept passing the church several days a week. After two months he wrote a new application but after waiting for permission for a month he received the message it had been turned down. Again. He felt even more down than before but since he kept passing the church like before several times a week, he tried again six months later. Wrote an application and waited a month for the answer. Same result. The leaders of the church wrote him again and told him, he could NOT become a member of the church. And don't send more applications! Now he felt really depressed and started crying out loud to God: "I have found this marvellous church here in New York. It looks wonderful and I have such a great wish to become a member there. I have tried three times doing the past 10 month, but every time they turn me down and won't let me in. What shall I do?" And God answered him: "Don't worry. I have tried for 15 years now, and they won't let ME in..." Blessings Mogens I Can Explain It To You, But I Can’t Understand It For You Good News For Christian Man ABP "REVELATION"
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You call it unlimited data and phone; I experience it's always a local call. And a collect call. Piet Hein, Dane once stated that "the one who takes a joke for being a only a joke and seriousness for only being seriousness do not understand anything of it." I have never heard of Creflo Dollar. But I am not so surprised it happens. And I'm not so surprised if they succeed to get the money. All through the History of Christianity there are stories like this. People blame it on Christianity when they really need to learn to look at the person and understand the egoism; selfishness and abuse of Christianity by hiding behind a title for gaining power and control. An American preacher living in Sophia, Bulgaria once said - from out of Romans - : "Our strength as Christians is measured upon how many people we are able to carry on our shoulders. It's not a pyramid of power where the most powerful is on the top, but a pyramid turned upside down so the most powerful is at the bottom. Carrying the others. How many people are you able to carry?". Blessings Mogens I Can Explain It To You, But I Can’t Understand It For You Good News For Christian Man ABP "REVELATION"
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