I have never been religious (it was never a subject that came up in my family). What I found strange was when I started studying and moved to a larger city, alot of former christians I got to know told med how they stopped believing.

These were “extreme christians” if you compare them to other christians where I live (Norway, we’re not a religious society at all). When they went out into the world, they found out that they’d been lied to. They’d been told everyone else wanted what they had, and they’d be converting heathens left to right.

One girl I got to know, told me she noticed people physically rejected her and felt sorry for her when she told them about her religion and that they also could partake. The people also asked her very troubling questions she could’t answer, and they seemed to know the religious texts better than her. After that she started to question what she’d been told since childhood

This is probably because english is not my first language, but I didn’t understand this at all

Edit: I got it!

I’ve hear the argument “Norwegian is a poor language” before, and people usually argue that the English language has many more words to choose from. When pressed, people like that are borderline illiterate and haven’t written anything meaningful in years. And they’re fucking horrible at english too

We got a governing body that decides what is correct or not when it comes to our two written languages, bokmål and nynorsk. They do not control speach and what is “correct” to say. I recent years the younger generations (I’m millenial, so not young any more 😢) have began merging two sounds, the sj- /∫/ og kj-sounds /ç/ with only the sj-sound. They can’t even hear the diference. This results in funny situations for us who can hear and pronounce the different sounds when used in words.

Kjede, pronounced with /ç/ at the start, means chain (can be used to describe various types of chains).

Sjede, pronounced with /∫/ at the start, means vagina.

The younger generation pronounced both words with /∫/ at the start. This makes the word “kjedekollisjon” not mean “chain collision” any more, but “vagina collision”. “Halskjede” with a /∫/, suddenly means “neck vagina”, not “necklace”. And so on. Language is fun.

“Lynvingen” is Batman in norwegian. It mean “lightning wing”

I didn’t speak any other languages than my native tongue before english, and I think I started learning English when I was around 10. This was early 90s, and they perhaps start even earlier now.

We knew alot of english before we had it in school. Music and films were a big influence on us, as it is still today.

It is true, at least here in Norway: https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den_nye_tellemåten (“The new way of counting”).

Our parliament deceided in 1949 that 21 should not be pronounced as “one-and-twenty”, but as “twenty-one”. It was because new phone numbers got introduced, and the new way gave a lot less errors when spoken to the “sentralbordamer” (switch operator ladies).

24 blackbirds baked in a pie?

As a norweigan, it is one of the easiest languages to learn

We have the same, and the reason I always ask for a specific date.

“Førstkommende onsdag” = “the first coming wednesday”. WHAT? Give me a date.

“Denne helga” = “this weekend”. OK, it works, but to be sure I want to have a date for friday, saturday and sunday.

“Ikke førstkommende helg, men den etter” = “not the first coming weekend, but the second.” … Fuck off!

Thank’s!

And “lieutenant” in AE and “lieutenant” in BE

Tanks!

“I threw the trough thoroughly through the thoroughfare” was a sentence my english teacher had us say and write. Good times!

It depens on age and/or dialect. My dialect is from the middle of Norway (trøndersk), and I say 74 as “fir’å søtti”. Other parts of Norway may say “søtti fire”. Luckily we do not do the weird danish numbers.

Same as the norwegian “hjerne” and “gjerne”. They are pronouced the same, but the first is “brain” the secon is “yes, please”

“Hjort” and “gjort”. Also pronounced the same, but the first one is “deer” and the second is “have done that”.

Easy

Do you have an example? My german is as rusty as Blücher

Norwegian is easier. If you see a vacant seat, you don’t use it because sitting next to some one is what psychopaths do. You’re not a psychopath, are you?

I can respect that. Normans are basically pesudo norwegians.

When they got the question “what do you want to eat, sir?”, the reponse was “gris, di fett!” (give me a pig, you cunt!)

What do mean “a sentence”? It is clearly one word : minoritets­ladningsbærer­diffusjons­koeffisient­målings­apparatur