onsdag, april 22, 2009

ämsam

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troylloyd sa...

This word is an excerpt from the Uppland portion of Remainland: Selected Poems of Aase Berg. Here is the Swedish & then the translation by Johannes Göransson:


Är det sant
att man aldrig
är ämsam
på döden?

Is it true
that one is never
loanely
on death?
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ämsam = loanely

very interesting, " ämsam " is not in my svensk dictionary & i could not find a definition online anywhere, when searching for "ämsam", i came across a few examples, maybe it has to do with being tired? also, strangely, the word popped up within those bizarre "virtual pet" sites, somehow i feel it is a play on "ensam " (alone, sole, lonely), but i cannot figure out the "äm- " part, unless it relates to " ämna " somehow...
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Anyway, i liked how Johannes translated the word. Aase Berg could be deemed difficult to translate because of the complex torques she puts into her language & i'm very glad he undertook the work -- it's great to read the Swedish alongside the English as well & enjoy the inventive constructions of how language can startle, surprise & shape shades swelling into the skull.
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Remainland showcases poetry from four volumes of poetry by Aase Berg, one of Sweden’s most celebrated and subversive young writers. From the wrecked fairy-tale-scape of With Deer to the pregnancy allegory Transfer Fat, from the sci-fi naturalism of Dark Matter to the catastrophic oasis of Uppland, Berg works language into miniature grotesques which invert the truisms of contemporary society. Her compulsive inventiveness provides an excoriating challenge to all cultures of complacency.:
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Remainland: Selected Poems of Aase Berg:
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a short review of Uppland:
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"Är det något fel på landskapet Uppland, slätten mellan Mälaren och Gävle, mellan Bottenhavet och Bergslagen? Kanske gör detta monotona landskap att det brister i den mänskliga stimulansen, som i sin tur skapar människorobotar eller utgör grogrunden för sekteristiska knullmord.

Man tror nästan det. Knutby. Köksö, är titeln på en av dikterna i Aase Bergs fjärde diktsamling, som just heter "Uppland". Där riktigt ser man hur förprogrammerade varelser rör sig i IKEA-träsket med schlagerkörer ringande i öronen, med tapeternas mönster omvandlade till orgastiska övningar och känslan av fångenskap överskuggar allt annat.

Eller så är inte Uppland speciellt på det sättet, men kanske idealiskt som skådeplats för en sammanhållen diktsamling som det är frågan om här. Den ortsnamnflora som Aase Berg fyller dikterna och titlarna med är hämtade härifrån, men oftast lätt deformerade. Ekolsund blir Eolsund (Eol=vindarnas gud enligt antik mytologi), Saltkråkan parafreras med Snorkråkan och för de hemmavarande heter flygplatsen Kvarlanda.

Det där rimmar väl med Bergs sätt att skriva. Hon gör det över hela fältet, hon lägger till och drar ifrån och far fram med den lexikala saxen utan vidare respekt för grammatik och syntax. Eller så är det just respekt hon har, men inser att poesi inte behöver vara svårt, att det kanske är just vid enkel- och lekfullhet som denna poesiart gör sig bäst.

Man önskar att fler inom den morfembesatta samtidslyriken insåg detta, och skrev lika upplyftande som Aase Berg."

Anders Edwartz
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dagensbok.com

Anonym sa...

I think that 'äm' in that word is some kind of dialect because that word is really 'ensam'

ensam
ensamt
ensamma

ensamhet
ensamhetet

Dialect is very interesting thing because the same word sounds very differently depending on that which dialect area you come from and it can also mean very different things :

I live in finnland and I was born in area which is called 'savo' so my
dialect is 'savonmurre' but when I was five years old we must move to 'häme' and there they are speaking 'hämeenmurretta'

so

i was very suprised when our neighbors were 'virutella astioita'

in häme that 'virutella astioita' means wash the dishes or something else but it means wash or rinse but in savo that means stretch, something is stretching. =)

troylloyd sa...

thank you Satu,
i think perhaps you are right,
for some reason i didn't even think of dialect, so thanx for pointing me in that direction.

dialects can cause difficulties for the would-be language learner -- i bet it is absolutely crazy trying to figure out the multiple & various oddities of English if it is a second language.

just recently i was reading about the Rauma dialect , as well as other little tidbits:
"The dialects of Finnish are divided into two distinct groups, the Western dialects and the Eastern dialects.The dialects are entirely mutually intelligible and distinguished from each other by only minor changes in vowels, diphthongs and rhythm. For the most part, the dialects operate on the same phonology, grammar and vocabulary. There are only marginal examples of sounds or grammatical constructions specific to some dialect and not found in standard Finnish. Two examples are the voiced dental fricative found in Rauma dialect and the Eastern exessive case.

The classification of closely related dialects spoken outside of Finland is a politically sensitive issue that has been controversial since Finland's independence in 1917. This concerns specifically the Karelian language in Russia and Meänkieli in Sweden, the speakers of which are often considered oppressed minorities. Karelian is different enough from standard Finnish to have its own orthography. Meänkieli is a northern dialect entirely intelligible to speakers of any other Finnish dialect, which achieved its status as an official minority language in Sweden for historical and political reasons regardless of the fact that Finnish is an official minority language in Sweden, too."
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interesting stuff.

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