How cold is it outside? Do you have a cooler, or even some sturdy canvas bags that can be zipped shut and a safe place to put them? Put your perishables in the cooler and/or bags and sit them in your safe place. This has saved our food more than once during winter power outs.
Hey, got a question that I hope you could answer, being Swedish and all.
I'm wanting to give one of my dolls a Scandinavian name (he got that look about him) and I was thinking of using "Kai Lukasson". Does that name actually sound decent or is it something that would make people wonder why a parent would torture a child so?
I just have no idea what sounds "right" in Swedish. Most of the Nordic names used here in the US are somewhat Americanized so that they sound good in our version of English!
If you could let me know, I'd be grateful. (Or if it's not a good name, any suggestions?)
"Kai" kind of works as a Swedish name, though here it's spelled "Kaj" with a J, and it's kind of old-fashioned - my parents' generation, or even older. Lukasson is a bit weird, though, because the "-son" ending is from when we still had patronyms rather than real surnames in Sweden, so it only "naturally" occurs on really old names. Karlsson, Andersson, Larsson(!), Svensson.
Lukas would work as a first name, though. Biblical first names aren't as common as they once were in Sweden, but they're not so rare that it'd be considered weird.
Thanks to this I'm now re-imagining Kaikavus as a 6'5" Viking-type. Thanks, guys.
This comment makes more sense if you are told I've been trying to make Kaik and Aninae into human minor characters in a completely different storyworld I'm working on. He was going to be Russian, named "Nikolai", but now? Bah.
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I'm wanting to give one of my dolls a Scandinavian name (he got that look about him) and I was thinking of using "Kai Lukasson". Does that name actually sound decent or is it something that would make people wonder why a parent would torture a child so?
I just have no idea what sounds "right" in Swedish. Most of the Nordic names used here in the US are somewhat Americanized so that they sound good in our version of English!
If you could let me know, I'd be grateful. (Or if it's not a good name, any suggestions?)
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Lukas would work as a first name, though. Biblical first names aren't as common as they once were in Sweden, but they're not so rare that it'd be considered weird.
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This comment makes more sense if you are told I've been trying to make Kaik and Aninae into human minor characters in a completely different storyworld I'm working on. He was going to be Russian, named "Nikolai", but now? Bah.
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Old-fashioned is okay--most of my dolls' names tend to be that way. So Kaj with a j it is!
(Lukas/Lucas is a really popular boy's name in the US right now, so I'm avoiding it.)
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