Look, a Norwegian!

[annathepiper]

Everybody say hi to ravyngyngvar, now joining my Friends list! He is my Norwegian pen pal, with whom I've been corresponding for ages and ages. We got started off on the correspondence thanks to a mutual love of Elfquest, and it's been going on ever since out of the general fact that we're both huge geeks. ;)

(Also, before anybody tells me a 36-year-old woman is too old to have a pen pal, well hey, I was 24 when the correspondence started! And, as my frequent gushing over GBS and Mr. Crowe exhibits, I'm a teenybopper at heart anyway. So there.)

Of interest to Seattle-area locals, he will be coming to visit MurkNorth in the middle of next month. So you'll be able to say hi to him in person as well!

HI YNGVAR!

Comments

[annathepiper]

Heh, but I bet Adams and Jefferson never called one another "pen pals". ;) There needs to be a better word for this. "Correspondent" is too linked with "reporter" in English now, I think.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

English is such a sucky language. It's a bastard to learn, irregular as hell, and *oh* the word origin! It's a muddled jumble of German, Latin, Greek, Geek, Jive, and Yiddish, mangled up in tangled up knots!

*/rant*

"Net friend"?

[annathepiper]

I have always giggled at this quote about English: "English doesn't borrow words and phrases from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, mugs them and goes through their pockets for loose grammar." It's so very apt. ;)

And yeah, "net friend" is kind of closer to the concept. "Online friend", also.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

*snerk* That's a good one. Think I'll steal it. :)

[annathepiper]

Heh! And we have of course since learned that the quote is james_nicoll's. Which still amuses me. It's such a SMALL Internet, and getting smaller all the time!