Competition - Short words in Danish. My Actifit Report Card: December 13 2021

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Saeby Havn, Denmark

I have a theory that in any language short, easy words convey the most important concepts for the language’s speakers.

I am living temporarily in Denmark. Although I do not speak Danish, I have noticed that they have 2-letter (even 1-letter!) nouns and verbs. Here are a few:

Nouns:

Å - stream
Ø - island
Æg - egg
Ål - eel
År - year
Bi - bee
By - town
Fe - fairy
Go - bark
Hø - hay
Is - ice
Ko - cow
Læ - shelter
Øl - beer
Rø - beet
Sø - sea
Tå - toe
Te - tea

Verbs:

Bo - to live
Dø - to die
Gå - to go
Få - to get
Må - must
Se - to see
Sy - to sew

Numbers:
En - 1
To - 2
Ni - 9
Ti - 10

Adjectives:

Ny - new
Rå - raw

Plus many pronouns (du, vi), prepositions (en, i, om) etc

I think it should be possible to create a story using mostly these short words.

Danish Competition

Here’s the challenge:

Try to write up a short story - in English - which when translated into Danish would use as many 1- and 2-letter words as possible. For the sake of the story telling, we do not have to care about grammatical forms. I will judge the story based on
a) number of short words and
b) subjective “fun factor”.

I will send 3-2-1 HBD to the winners. Results on Friday with my @actifit post.

MAcFiT Champions League and Consolation Cup Update

Latest matches - Sunday, Dec 12

Consolation Cup Semifinals, Leg 2:

SF1: @practicaleric vs @mariya36 19:12 (18786-11827)
First Leg: 22:13 (22333-13380); Winner: @practicaleric (2 wins, aggregate score 41:25)

SF2: @venan vs @ilodz24hd 0:30 (???-28944)
First Leg: 0:30 (???-15194); Winner: @ilodz24hd (two W/O's)

Season 5 pre-qualifiers

4 days: Friday-Monday, Dec 10-13, the participants walk alone

I will track your reports for 4 days (Friday thru Monday) and select 3 best results. Then 8 best of you will join Champions League qualifiers (Round 1), the rest will go into Consolation Cup qualifiers (Round 1)

Next on Schedule

Season 4 Finals

Champions League: Wednesday, Dec 15
Consolation Cup: Thursday, Dec 16

Season 5 Qualifiers - Round 1

Champions League, Leg 1: Friday, Dec 17
Consolation Cup, Leg 1: Saturday, Dec 18
Champions League, Leg 2: Sunday, Dec 19
Consolation Cup, Leg 2: Monday, Dec 20

Season 5 Seeds - Champions League

Automatic participation

@manuvert, @merthin, @masoom, @ptaku, @browery + winner of Consolation Cup (@ilodz24hd / @practicaleric)

Pairs in Round 2

Q1: #7 - runner-up of CC (@ilodz24hd / @practicaleric) vs R1_8
Q2: #8 - @mariya36 vs R1_7
Q3: #9 - @flaxz vs R1_6
Q4: #10 - @cezary-io vs R1_5
Q5: #11 - @bucipucivs R1_4
Q6: #12 - @pagane vs R1_3
Q7: #13 - @venan vs R1_2
Q8: #14 - @davidesimoncini / vs R1_1
Q9: #15 - @davidthompson57 vs #16 - @milabogomila

Pairs in Round 1

R1_1: #17 @sk1920 vs PQ_8
R1_2: #18 @grecki-bazar-ewy vs PQ7
R1_3: #19 @pjansen vs PQ6
R1_4: #20 @racibo vs PQ5
R1_5: #21 @homesteadlt vs PQ4
R1_6: #22 @ervin-lemark vs PQ3
R1_7: #23 @sandraa1 vs PQ2
R1_8: #24 @kiel91 vs PQ1

Season 5 Seeds - Consolation Cup

Pairs in Round 1

R1_1: PQ9 vs bye
R1_2: PQ10 vs bye
R1_3: PQ11 vs bye
R1_4: PQ12 vs bye
R1_5: PQ13 vs bye
R1_6: PQ14 vs bye
R1_7: PQ15 vs PQ18
R1_8: PQ16 vs PQ17

Pairs in Round 2

WCC_n - winner of the respective pair of Consolation Cup Round 1 qualifiers
LCL_n - loser of the respective pair of Champions League Round 1 qualifiers

R2_1: WCC_1 vs LCL_8
R2_2: WCC_2 vs LCL_7
R2_3: WCC_3 vs LCL_6
R2_4: WCC_4 vs LCL_5
R2_5: WCC_5 vs LCL_4
R2_6: WCC_6 vs LCL_3
R2_7: WCC_7 vs LCL_2
R2_8: WCC_8 vs LCL_1

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