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Snowing old hags and Christmas traditions
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Solfrid Cristin
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23 December 2011 at 11:11pm | IP Logged

Iversen wrote:

Several years ago my sister and I got a craze about making Danish Christmas hearts,

Argh - I had blissfully forgotten those - which I by the way thought were Norwegian. We used to do them for years, but now the kids are so big, and we have so many of them that I get to skip that. I never managed to do them properly anyway, as I am a disaster waiting to happen when it comes to handicrafts,
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24 December 2011 at 6:21pm | IP Logged

And I thought they were Swedish (if not "international"). Last time my parents had a proper Christmas tree must have been in the early eighties...
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24 December 2011 at 6:54pm | IP Logged

I had tried for some time to learn the word for snow in Turkish, and kept forgetting it.

A couple days ago, I was reading something and came into one of a couple different (maybe obscure) ways to say "icicle" in Turkish - "kar dişi". A literal translation could be "snow tooth", which I found really inventive. I'll never forget the Turkish word for snow now.

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