Serving the Quantitative Finance Community

 
User avatar
bearish
Posts: 5186
Joined: February 3rd, 2011, 2:19 pm

Re: Chatroom

May 14th, 2021, 1:29 pm

Danish cannot be spoken fluently. It reads perfectly fine. In fact, nearly indistinguishable from Norwegian, but it is commonly spoken as if a good-sized potato is lodged in the throat of the speaker.
 
User avatar
Cuchulainn
Posts: 20252
Joined: July 16th, 2004, 7:38 am
Location: 20, 000

Re: Chatroom

May 14th, 2021, 2:24 pm

Danish cannot be spoken fluently. It reads perfectly fine. In fact, nearly indistinguishable from Norwegian, but it is commonly spoken as if a good-sized potato is lodged in the throat of the speaker.
Like that NATO guy?
 
User avatar
bearish
Posts: 5186
Joined: February 3rd, 2011, 2:19 pm

Re: Chatroom

May 14th, 2021, 7:25 pm

The current NATO guy is Norwegian, but the previous one was in fact Danish. So you may be right.
 
User avatar
Copenhagentolondon
Posts: 83
Joined: May 3rd, 2021, 9:56 pm
Location: Somewhere between Kastrup and Luton screaming at Ryanair staff
Contact:

Re: Chatroom

May 14th, 2021, 11:56 pm

Indeed, this is actually the description I've heard from any and nearly all foreigners explaining how they hear danish. 
Danish apparently equal to german, while choking on a potato OR speaking swedish while trying to swallow your tongue.
Also yes, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Danish NATO dude in question, was also our former prime minister, horribly obvious danish accent if you ask me.
Fish fingers and custard?
 
User avatar
Paul
Posts: 6604
Joined: July 20th, 2001, 3:28 pm

Re: Chatroom

May 15th, 2021, 12:03 am

Danish apparently equal to german, while choking on a potato OR speaking swedish while trying to swallow your tongue.
The soundtrack to the Danish porn movies of the 1970s.
 
User avatar
bearish
Posts: 5186
Joined: February 3rd, 2011, 2:19 pm

Re: Chatroom

May 15th, 2021, 3:15 am

Those involved a lot more hair than what is commonly seen these days.
 
User avatar
Paul
Posts: 6604
Joined: July 20th, 2001, 3:28 pm

Re: Chatroom

May 15th, 2021, 3:41 am

I think that is going to change. You heard it here first!
 
User avatar
tags
Topic Author
Posts: 3162
Joined: February 21st, 2010, 12:58 pm

Re: Chatroom

July 8th, 2021, 7:36 am

hello. is it me or the manuals (e.g. stats, ...) have become (even) more procey over the last months (aka over the pandemic)? books that would have been 60 before are now 80, and 20 now 30. you firends who are close to the edition industry can maybe confirm/deniy/explain? merci.
 
User avatar
tags
Topic Author
Posts: 3162
Joined: February 21st, 2010, 12:58 pm

Re: Chatroom

July 8th, 2021, 7:06 pm

hello. is it me or the manuals (e.g. stats, ...) have become (even) more pricey over the last months (aka over the pandemic)? books that would have been 60 before are now 80, and 20 now 30. you friends who are close to the edition industry can maybe confirm/deniy/explain? merci.


It looks editors/writers friends don't wish to comment on inflated manuals prices. Fair enough.
 
User avatar
Cuchulainn
Posts: 20252
Joined: July 16th, 2004, 7:38 am
Location: 20, 000

Re: Chatroom

July 8th, 2021, 8:04 pm

I think that is going to change. You heard it here first!
mean-reverting?
 
User avatar
Cuchulainn
Posts: 20252
Joined: July 16th, 2004, 7:38 am
Location: 20, 000

Re: Chatroom

July 8th, 2021, 8:06 pm

hello. is it me or the manuals (e.g. stats, ...) have become (even) more pricey over the last months (aka over the pandemic)? books that would have been 60 before are now 80, and 20 now 30. you friends who are close to the edition industry can maybe confirm/deniy/explain? merci.


It looks editors/writers friends don't wish to comment on inflated manuals prices. Fair enough.
I usually write my own.
 
User avatar
tags
Topic Author
Posts: 3162
Joined: February 21st, 2010, 12:58 pm

Re: Chatroom

July 20th, 2021, 7:51 pm

So I ordered that book on a UK website 12 days ago now, but I haven't been delivered yet..
Maybe they all went for a early siwm in the Celtic Sea. I don't know.
 
User avatar
Cuchulainn
Posts: 20252
Joined: July 16th, 2004, 7:38 am
Location: 20, 000

Re: Chatroom

July 20th, 2021, 8:07 pm

So I ordered that book on a UK website 12 days ago now, but I haven't been delivered yet..
Maybe they all went for a early siwm in the Celtic Sea. I don't know.
BEXIT, no one to process your order. They all went back to Poland or no lorry drivers. No kidding.
 
User avatar
Paul
Posts: 6604
Joined: July 20th, 2001, 3:28 pm

Re: Chatroom

July 21st, 2021, 7:40 am

Delivery man is mucking about in space.
 
User avatar
tags
Topic Author
Posts: 3162
Joined: February 21st, 2010, 12:58 pm

Re: Chatroom

October 17th, 2021, 9:59 am

hello friends. by chance do you know what are those little modules for? 
edge length is about 15 cm.
from one day to the next there were literally thousands of them along all streets and roads in parts of Geneva and on the French side of the border.
they are spaced about 20m aparts.
they left them there about for 2 weeks, and took them all away at once just as quickly as they disposed them.
they also put some in private properties, e,g, the one on the picture is one of the 4 they position in the foreyard of our little building.



Image