IMMIGRATION thread

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

[QUOTE=Gilrandir;2053654895]Oh, come on! Next thing you will be saying is that one of you is English and another is Swedish.\/quote]

Actually, I'm part Swedish.

Yet the Eastern empire weathered the assault. Were its citizens different from their western counterparts in the degree of bellicoseness?

There are a number of reasons but it comes down to geography, the Rhine frontier was the one most often breached and as a result Gaul was repeatedly sacked, the Eastern Empire was also more densely populated and had shorter overall borders, making it easier to defend.

Most essentially, however, they had more cash.

[Gilrandir]

Actually, I'm part Swedish.

A-ha!!! And you still want Husar to differentiate between you two? It is most unfair.

[Brenus]

"Hungary or Greece." Great idea. Thanks to Merkel & EU henchmen, Greece got a pacquage wich means no jobs for ever and pushed Greeks to migrate, so, not really a good plan if you want to settle, and Hungary, where the President is openly xenophobic, and the economic absolutely in shamble.
Then, Germany is not in good shape either, but they will do good with cheap labour. And it is not that far...
"It is the life in a richer country with free food and prospects of getting subsidies from the mellower government." The German Myth is still working...

[Pannonian]

Actually, I'm part Swedish.

A-ha!

A-ha! is Norwegian.

[Shaka_Khan]

This reminds me of the Vietnamese refugees who rode boats to flee to the other Southeast Asian countries after the Vietnamese War. Others went further to North America, Australia, and Western Europe.

[Kadagar_AV]

Wrote stuff

How can south-east asian immigration by any conceivable way remind you of forced immigrations from societies at the lower end of the IQ-bell curve?

[Kadagar_AV]

A-ha! is Norwegian.

Actually it's also Swedish...

Sorry for chipping in late, totally missed it. So yeah, PVC was right all along, once again.

EDIT: Can't believe so many people pressed like on the flame on PVC. Sharpen up, you could at least fact-check before you flame someone.

AHA aha⁴ l. aha⁴, äfv. aha⁴ (stundom med kort a i senare stafvelsen), interj. (ah ha GOSSELMAN (1833))
[jfr d., holl., t. o. eng. aha; jfr äfv. fr. ah ah]
[AHA 0]
utrop, då man kommer under fund med l. upptäcker l. får veta ngt; med olika tonfall kan ordet uttrycka öfverraskning (i sht lindrig l. låtsad), belåtenhet, harm, hån m. m.: jaså, såå, ah, å(h), åhå, jag förstår; ofta användes det skämt. l. ironiskt. Men allt detta, svarar mig någon ung studerande, hör blott till anthropologien, till läran om menniskan! – Aha! (dvs. jaså, säger ni det?) min philosoph: jag trodde att vi talte om menniskan. LEOPOLD 3: 380 (1801, 1816). Makár? Aha! så heter då, / Den kära, rymmande personen? DENS. 2: 406 (1802, 1815) Hvad är det för ett blått berg, som jag ser der borta? Aha, nu förstår jag. Det är gränsen emellan det förflutna och det närvarande. LIVIJN 1: 361 (1824). Ah ha! – Var det derföre du gjorde dina många frågor? GOSSELMAN S. o. N. Am. 2: 51 (1833). Brådskande och nyfiket öppnade han (brefven) . . Aha, Rosensteins stil. CRUSENSTOLPE Mor. 3: 240 (1841). Hvem talar der? Aha! .. / Ett stycke lärd! G. L. SILFVERSTOLPE 2: 70 (1852). Aha, klämmer skon der? JOLIN Smäd. 30 (1863). Aha, min gunstig herre. Ar det så? Därs. 88. jfr: Hoity-toity! what's here to do? aha! hvad är här på färde? SERENIUS (1734).

That is the official description of the word in Swedish, not that I think you would get much of it, as I barely do - having taught Swedish ;)

SOURCE: SAOB