Comments on: Skeptikerens håndbok er her!

By: Brian G Valentine

Brian G Valentine — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:03:19 +0000

“But they hid Vavila in the grave.”

[From A Chekov, The Witch. Meaning they thought they buried the truth]

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By: Виктор Евсеев

Виктор Евсеев — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:13:39 +0000

Да уж… Тут как говорится: А уже Вавилу запрятали в могилу.:)

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By: Ahrvid Engholm

Ahrvid Engholm — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:11:37 +0000

Hi! Nice to see the Sceptics Handbook translated into Norwegian (which I can read perfectly well; I’m Swedish BTW). I hope someone will translate it into Swedish. There is an active and growing anti-AGW movement in Sweden. Groups like Stockholmsinitiativet (http://stockholmsinitiativet.se/), and sites like Moderna Myter (http://www.moderna-myter.se) and The Climate Scam (http://www.theclimatescam.se/) – and there are many more.
Norwegians and Swedes have it easiests to understand each other, language-wise. Something like 95% of the words are similar (or identical), and the percent of the words that aren’t, will be something a person easily learns (newspaper is “avis” in Norwegian, “tidning” in Swedish; city is “by” in Norwegian, “stad” in Swedish, etc).
However, *written* Norwegian (at least the dominating Bokmål dialect) is very similar to Danish, due to Norway for a long time being under the Danes. *Spoken* Danish is sometimes a bit of a trouble, due to this language’s habit of swallowing bits of words. (My favourite example. “Tiger” is pronounced something like “tee-e”; “g” and “r” aren’t heard.)
Swedish is also useful in Finland, since ca 6% of the population speaks it as first language and the Finnish speakers are taught Swedish in schools. (Swedish is one of two official languages in Finland, all from the time when Sweden used to rule Finland.)
The Scandinavians have a lot in this climate mess to answer for. The Swede Bert Bolin was one of the IPCC founders. The Norwegians gave Al Gore a Peace Prize. And the Danes are hosting this Copenhagen climate summit. There’s certainly no reason to be green with envy…

–Ahrvid

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By: Brian G Valentine

Brian G Valentine — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:57:54 +0000

Aber wir haben bereits eine Übersetzung auf Deutsch!

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By: Ron de Haan

Ron de Haan — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:34:27 +0000

Jo,
If you like, I can translate your “guide” in Dutch, German and Spanish.
The Dutch and the Germans are in desperate need of a “Skeptic” push.
There is hardly any opposition against the insane measures and useless spending of all kind to curb the future effects of Global Warming/Climate Change.
The Dutch have signed of on a gigantic project to protect the Dutch coast against
the “imaginary” seven meters of sea level rise.
This 50 billion Euro project already has started.
Everybody is on so called “green electricity”, wind mill projects are build and Royal Dutch Shell is executing a carbon sequestration project for which they receive 250 million dollars in Government support.

In Germany similar “Green Madness” is observed.

There are hardly any Dutch or German skeptic blogs and those promoting the “Green Dreams” don’t allow skeptic remarks.

The people here show an unhealthy trust in Government and support WWF and Greenpeace en mass.

Fortunately the most Dutch are multi lingual so referring to English written blogs is not a problem but the Germans are more isolated.

Anyhow, I think it important to make the effort and inform the people and stimulate them to start using that stuff between their ears again.

You can contact via e-mail if you think I can be helpfull.

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By: Brian G Valentine

Brian G Valentine — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:18:32 +0000

That’s all very well, Tom Wulff, but birds “sing,” whereas humans “speak.”

[sorry that didn't come out quite right]

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By: Brian G Valentine

Brian G Valentine — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:46:08 +0000

Hablo español también, Vicnete (Vincente?), sobre tan bien como hablo inglés (y no todo el que fluido en eso).

Deseo que hubiera más escepticismo entre los países de habla hispana, aunque parezca haber algo en el Continenet, en España y en Portugal. No tanto en las Américas.

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By: Vicente

Vicente — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:09:42 +0000

Hablo y escribo Espanol perfectamente (having been brought up in South America since the age of 4 to 23). Si quieres que te tradusca tu libreto no hay problema
Vincent H Guerrini DVM, MSC, MSc, PhD (All science degrees though…if needed). Will need to do the ene over some of the n as in La Nina etc..accents etc….I think there is a site where they can be got… Lucia Liligjren (Rankexploits) seems she’s slowly becoming skeptical…. we hope hahahah. Of course there should be literally millions of guys/gals in the USA who could also do it.

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By: Tom Wulff

Tom Wulff — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:21:54 +0000

Brian and Anne-Kit!

You are both right. As said No. and Da. is closer in the written form, but we No. understand the Sw. better because of the fact from Anne-Kit.

Tom

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By: Anne-Kit Littler

Anne-Kit Littler — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:00:33 +0000

Ooooh, the Swedes and Norwegians aren’t going to like that comment, Brian There’s always been a great deal of internecine rivalry among the three Scandinavian nations. We like to beat each other at football (the REAL football game, or what you guys call “soccer” …), and the Swedes and Norwegians usually say that Danish is not a language, it’s a throat disease (actually, spoken Danish has more in common with guttural Dutch than either of the other two Scandi languages, which are both more melodious and sing-song).

But when threatened from outside, we’re all brothers and sisters, ikke sant?. I don’t mind either way; I’m Danish on my father’s side and Norwegian on my mother’s, and my mother’s family has quite a bit of Swedish influence, so I love them all!

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