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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5145 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 1 of 3 29 November 2011 at 11:42pm | IP Logged |
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I firmly believe that people are shaped by their circumstances. In Norwegian, if we say that someone is "blue eyed" we mean that they are naive. For those of you who feel like studying Norwegian, I thought I would send you this little gem, about a people, where being blue eyed is the norm. Knowing a language also entails understanding the culture, and since Norwegian culture is not the most well known, I figured I'd help spread some information.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01mTKDaKa6Q And for the record. This is made by Micheal More, who is a controversional character, but everything he says in this film is true. When I saw this film last week, the colleague who showed it to me said that this is where ABB will end up towards the end of his sentence (ABB is the terrorist who massacred 77 people in Oslo this summer, 70 of them being kids). Today we learned that not even. He is considered to have been psychotic at the time of the massacre, and will not stand for trial, in spite of the fact that he planned this for 9 years. He will be sent to a psychiatric hospital and can in theory be out on the streets in 3 years, if he can convince them that he is well. I love my country, but sometimes we are too humanitarian for our own good. And to add a few less controversial ones, here is more info. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqcY2GtKnkA&feature=fvwrel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRv7fYl5zn8&feature=relmfu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__k8qIwWVdw&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uZW9OZH2u4&feature=relmfu Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 30 November 2011 at 12:17am 6 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6470 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 2 of 3 29 November 2011 at 11:53pm | IP Logged |
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I don’t think you will have to be worried, no matter what ABB will be sentenced to, he will not walk among people
for the rest of his life, rest for sure. In Sweden, by the way, the notion that people sentenced to psychiatric care get out in «only a couple of years» is a modern myth (most often they are kept in for longer than gaolers!). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6190 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 3 30 November 2011 at 1:23am | IP Logged |
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This topic isn't related to language learning so I'm closing it.
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