I need a scandinavian!

[Kassen]

...But I'm not sure which kind.

You see, last night I got given a sweater which somehow came from a noise festival in some way... and it has my name on it. The issue is that it has some more words on it as well, in fact it says;

KASSEN VAR TOM
FOR (the o has a slash through it) VI NAEDE (dot on the a)
ROM

Below this is a image of some people drinking heavily and a sort of saint appearing like a ghost from one guy's bottle, the crates say "OL" (dash through the o)

The front says;

STUDIE TUR TIL ROM

and has a logo

So, I'd like a translation of this, please, but I'm not sure what language it is, I suspect Finish or Danish?

[Oskar]

It's in Danish; Roughly translated it means, "The money had run out before me reached Rome."

"Kassen" is the definite form of "kasse" - which can mean case, box or chest - in this instance it means "the money chest" or similar.
A nice pun there, seeing as your name means something else in the Scandinavian languages.

[Kassen]

Right! In this case I would gamble the "case" or "chest" refers to the crates of bottles in the image as well? The whole scene with two opposite benches and luggage above them seems vaguely like a train as well.

That would make "STUDIE TUR TIL ROM" a student trip to rome?

Better then Swedish where "kassen" reportedly refers to a plastic bag :¬).

I was told it was "likely Finish" but as it seemed more recognizable to a Dutch-man then that Danish was my bet. I suspected "rom" might refer to alcohol as Danish is somewhat similar to Frisian where alcohol is "romer" (not sure about the exact spelling).

Thanks a lot for your help!

[Antimon]

[Kassen]

Yeah... sounds like a sweater from a Danish student society. Not very classy but it's a XXL in dark-blue and very comfy :¬)

[blue hell]

[altemark]

the bag is empty


indeed, it is. ica-kasse? plast-kasse? moog-kasse?

[Kassen]

Ah!

My parents used to have this tile on the cupboard of drinks at the boat;

dur fersoepe er meer yn e romer as in de see (I'm sure I miss-spelled a lot there)

"more drown in their drink then in the sea"

[blue hell]

"Der fersûpe mear yn it bierglês (de romer) as yn 'e see. ..."

and

"Yn in romer kin men o sa maklik fersûpe"


(Google knows everything )

[Kassen]

Google can sort between the three different spellings of the "oe" in Frisian? That must be one of the greatest achievements of man-kind!

[blue hell]

Nah, but it can find the expressions, and I helped it a bit by looking things up in my Frysk Wurdboek. That was the 2nd oe, so what's the 3rd

[Kassen]

I can't remember... I think I was 9 or so when I last had lessons in it. i just remember there were three "oe"'s and that that made writing it a hell if you're already dyslectic, there's no rhyme or reason to which one is used where either, they just get sprinkled about (or at least that's what it looked like to me...).

To make matters worse there is a enormous verity in pronunciation depending on where exactly people come from and...

[Oskar]

i've always been fascinated by the apparent similarities between Dutch and Norwegian, and Frysk, too for that matter. Some of the words are actually even closer to my country dialect than standardised Norwegian.

[blue hell]

[Oskar]

[brinxmat]

Doesn't "kassen" mean "the coffers"

The coffers were empty before we reached rome.

Although I agree, it is more poetic interpreted like this:

The beer crate was emptied before we started on the rum.[/i]

[Antimon]

[BobTheDog]

You see "Kassen" quite a bit in office buildings in Denmark, for instance on Lift maps, I was told it meeans "Where the money is kept".

Cheers

Andy

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