posted on September 8, 2006 10:01:59 PM new
In our museum's visitor's book, someone from Denmark wrote "meget flot." I can't find a good (free) Danish to English translation of it in the usual on-line places. Anybody?
[ edited by roadsmith on Sep 8, 2006 10:03 PM ]
posted on September 9, 2006 12:09:53 AM new
meget = quite, very, very much
flot = generous, smart, fancy, fine
If it was in a guest book for a museum I would take it to mean something like quite fancy or very fine. Probably refering to the quality of the museum's display's. In any case it was a compliment.
1 out of 4 people are mentally unbalanced. Take a look at your 3 closest friends. If they seem alright, you're the one! - Kyle Stubbins, CMS
[ edited by mikes4x4andtruckrepair on Sep 9, 2006 12:20 AM ]
posted on September 9, 2006 12:36:10 PM new
Altavista only does a very limited number of foreign languages and Danish is not one of them. My last resort for most any language you run into is not a translator but a foreign language dictonary website I found a long time ago. http://www.word2word.com/dictionary.html Scroll down a little bit and there is a huge list of foreign languages. Click the language and it brings up a dictionary for that language with the definition in english. Takes more time than a language translator program but it works.
1 out of 4 people are mentally unbalanced. Take a look at your 3 closest friends. If they seem alright, you're the one! - Kyle Stubbins, CMS
posted on September 9, 2006 12:46:41 PM new
Yep, classic. I tried that first, and as Mike says they don't do Danish. Thanks, Mike, for that site, which I'm bookmarking as we speak.
posted on September 9, 2006 01:10:41 PM new
No problem Roadsmith. I found out a long time ago that the translator programs only did the most popular languages. One day I did a search for foreign dictionaries that list the definitions in english and found a bunch of them, much more than translator programs. This one just happens to alway's have the words I'm looking for so I use it the most.
1 out of 4 people are mentally unbalanced. Take a look at your 3 closest friends. If they seem alright, you're the one! - Kyle Stubbins, CMS
1 out of 4 people are mentally unbalanced. Take a look at your 3 closest friends. If they seem alright, you're the one! - Kyle Stubbins, CMS