Traitor to the Swedish tongue
My native language, Swedish, is small: less than 10 million speakers, plus 10 million speakers of Norwegian and Danish who understand Swedish when they want to. Scandinavians are extremely affluent and well educated seen in a global perspective, which accounts for the fact that these little languages actually produce a good book now and then.
As you may have noticed, this blog is not written in Swedish, but in my previously posited language-of-the-most-good-books, hegemonic English. This is because I want as many interested readers (and correspondents) as possible. The blog's subject matter isn't exactly front page issues, reflecting the fact that I have very little knowledge of and interest in such things. But writing in English and marketing the blog through Technorati, I hope to reach a global scattering of oddballs who may enjoy the blog.
After less than three weeks, the blog has about 40 unique visitors daily. About 80% of them are located in Scandinavia. I can see several reasons for this: I began by marketing the blog to my friends and colleagues (you guys are of course more likely than the random netizen to share my interests), I write a lot about Scandinavia, and in particular a lot about Scandinavian archaeology. This subject is for some reason not a very big deal outside of northern Europe (unlike Scandinavian furniture design, cell phones and pornography).
Dear Reader, I'm thrilled to have you. Please feel free to drop me a line, just to say hi or to send me a link to something fun and bloggable. And do tell your friends. Peace!
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As you may have noticed, this blog is not written in Swedish, but in my previously posited language-of-the-most-good-books, hegemonic English. This is because I want as many interested readers (and correspondents) as possible. The blog's subject matter isn't exactly front page issues, reflecting the fact that I have very little knowledge of and interest in such things. But writing in English and marketing the blog through Technorati, I hope to reach a global scattering of oddballs who may enjoy the blog.
After less than three weeks, the blog has about 40 unique visitors daily. About 80% of them are located in Scandinavia. I can see several reasons for this: I began by marketing the blog to my friends and colleagues (you guys are of course more likely than the random netizen to share my interests), I write a lot about Scandinavia, and in particular a lot about Scandinavian archaeology. This subject is for some reason not a very big deal outside of northern Europe (unlike Scandinavian furniture design, cell phones and pornography).
Dear Reader, I'm thrilled to have you. Please feel free to drop me a line, just to say hi or to send me a link to something fun and bloggable. And do tell your friends. Peace!
[More blog entries about language, Swedish, English, blogging; språk, svenska, engelska, blogg.]
posted by Martin at 07:47
5 Comments:
40 readers a day sounds like a good amount! I´m one of them,
I find your blogg unpredictable and amusing
"Pölsan" ( Mashed Lung) is by the way an excellent book written in our small language. The author is Torgny Lindgren.
Fellow Archaeologist here from the U.S.
I have been dropping in almost daily to browse the posts. Sometimes funny, sometimes insightful.
Thank you! Maybe one day I'll manage to be both funny and insightful. (-;
I'm just a passing odball with a Finn fiancee but I don't own a Nokia cell phone. Go figure. I look forward to my move to Finland and the opportunity to travel throughout Scandinavia. Kippis!
Wasn't going to comment, but the word verification was "jufrou"!!!
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