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My last name is two names combined into one. The sign which pull them together is important to communicate when I buy stuff over the phone. It's like Joe Jones-Smith instead of Joe Jones Smith. In my country Joe Jones Smith would be considered Mr Smith, with first name Joe Jones. Joe Jones-Smith would be Mr Jones-Smith, with first name Joe.

So, when I spell my name, what will be the word for that sign - ?

Thanks [thumbsup]

A hyphen, I believe.

As in "My last name is hyphenated."

"Hyphen" is the proper word.

Many people will also understand if you use "dash".

Wouldn't "dash" be typed / ?

In military terms, it's "tack"...


No, that's a slash

So,

"dash" is understandable, but "hyphen" is correct? I'll try to remember both [thumbsup]

Ja! (Jeg er forfatter samt en geolog. Jeg snakker litt norsk ;) ).

Brushing up on the Scandanavian as I might be back over your way somewhat permanently. Most likely DK though, but hey, at least it's written roughly the same even the pronunciation is a bit crappy.

Norwegian is a bit more articulate, but written is similar.

Jeg er forfatter og geolog. Jeg snakker litt norsk. VERY GOOD!

We'll catch/meet up somehow when you get there......

Hvordan har du det? Hvordan er været?

Whenever I'm next over your way, I will make sure I visit Oslo and catch up with you. Whenever work lets me go I will hopefully get to Copenagen (sorry, should really say København to keep the Danes happy), Århus in DK as well, Helsinki, Stockholm (and Luleå, as I have friends at the University there) and Oslo :). If it all goes to plan, that should be in November this year (otherwise it will be January. Yes, I realise the weather isn't so great then. That's the point. If I'm to move there I need to know that I can cope with the shit weather too).

Takk, jeg har det bra.

Været er pent, men litt kaldt. Solen skinner og jeg kjører Ducati.

i want to learn to speak in code too.

Go to school and learn Norwegian  ;D

Do they have cliff notes?

Cliff who?

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/ (http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/)

Yeah Nate, it's CLIFF'S NOTES....

if you quit acknowledging it as a real language they will have to stop speaking their code.


 ;D

whatever

google cliff notes

Hey, you're one of the people that christened me with this name, I'm just trying to live up to it!

We were all hoping you'd lighten up. :P

Det er jo hyggelig at dere lurer på dette her, da - norsk er et kjekt lite språk, men ikke så utviklet og ordrikt som f eks engelsk. Vi trives med det så lenge vi kan, dog er det jo fler og fler som bruker engelsk i dagligtale - ikke umulig at det ender opp med et massivt press for like gjerne å bytte hovedspråk.

Vel vel, nå slutter jeg å prate med meg selv [roll]

I would like to take this opportunity to the distinguish the hyphen (-) from the en dash (–) and em dash (—).

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hyphen (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hyphen)
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/en+dash (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/en+dash) (alt+0150)
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/em+dash (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/em+dash) (alt+0151)

;)

That's not fair.

firefox says you misspelled all the words. ;D

I'll say this - what's nice about Norwegian, Swedish and Danish is that they are Germanic languages, like English, and their grammar is near on identical to English. Learning is more a case of learning some vocab, and not having to learn all the bloody nasty verb conjugation (without rules) that dominates English  [bang]

Plus jentene elsker det.  [thumbsup]

Anyway, back on topic.
- is a hyphen, colloquially a dash
/ is a 'solidus' or colloquially a forward slash

Technically you have have different length dashes e.g. an en-dash is the length of an n, whereas an em-dash is the length of an m. Hyphen is the short dash :D.

Off to work for me, now, kiddies. Play nice!

Holden, you made it absolutely certain that hyphen is what I was looking for. Thanks [thumbsup]
Now, let's hope US vendors understand [roll]

Nei, det gjorde jeg ikke  [bang] Nå begynner jeg å bli lei av han Ducatilakkereren Nate som på sitt idiotiske vis ikke skjønner litt enkel norsk engang. Som Ellingly skriver, Elling er forresten et kjent norsk navn, : det er jo faktisk ganske enkelt å lære.
Til tross for bindestreker --- og bokstavene Æ Ø og Å

I'm starting to get tired of you too. [thumbsup]

How the make the beast with two backs did you find a translator to do that  [evil]

Not sure...

must be the idiotic part of me. ;)

You mean there are more parts than that one?

Ønsker vi virkelig å gå dit?

Now I picture Nate as the Swedish Chef from the muppets.

Få den rette.

Jeg snakker norsk.

Vi brannsår en forbannet skipet!

Jeg elsker deg likevel  [thumbsup]


Even I couldn't re-(hyphen!)translate that, but I can see it was dirty [clap] Original quote, please....

I ran "We burned a damned boat" thru the Norwegian to English translator.  ;D

   
Du er ikke så ille heller. ;D

That's not dirty ???

That's actually quite well done by the machine [thumbsup] (besides heart warming)

Actually it was. I was a very dirty boat with idiotic people burning it.

Hey, you were there too!

I are among the idiots.
Also, we had a genuine imitation viking on hand.

"Genuine Imitation"!! [laugh]

You did, however, have two Authentic Navy Sailors there!

i think one is only a sailor for the hat.

Hey, don't talk about Dave that way!

 [laugh] [laugh]

nurny, nurny, nurny, nurny

Ante Valente - Snøscooter Sandwich (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuuicuyQPOQ#normal)

Team Antonsen - Vaffel oppskrift (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOQ1aXof8lg#normal)

Real thread derail: stopintime, you Scandanavians are to blame for my hangover.

Got pissed on cloudberry liquer last night. I love that stuff - can't get it in Australia but I had some friends bring out as much as they could last month.

It's all gone  [drink]

and quite frankly I haven't pulled up well this morning.

Just watch the original version of "The Thing" w/ Kurt Russell.  The first few minutes have a crazy guy running around talking in "code".

So what excuse are you going to use to move to Scandinavia dude?

I used college, too bad that one won't fly no more... I didn't bother with the javlaskit weather though...

The geology is pretty awesome :D. I can get a job there... good enough I suspect.

Plus, most of Scandanavia is more like my homeland (Tasmania) than the rest of Australia is.

Finally, is saying 'zee wimmin' shallow enough of a reason?