Notices by Pacific NW Viking (viking@noauthority.social)

@inscius @yukiame @troubledturtle @bloojay @MountainJay @Tante_Neel @batcatdad

I know, I just needed an analogy that would be obvious to a German dude, to illustrate the wrongness of a fake word like bröder.

@troubledturtle @bloojay @MountainJay @Tante_Neel @yukiame

Man, this use of Scandinavian vowels is painful to my brain!

It is up there with listening to Kamala explain technology to us.

@batcatdad @inscius

@yukiame @troubledturtle @bloojay @MountainJay @Tante_Neel @batcatdad @inscius

The problem is that it is being put in places where it makes absolutely no sense!

Like this: Gött im Himmel!

@ZeroSum06

That's Zero Sum thinking.

@inscius @GluedToTheScreen @justinerickson

Must be a cork!

@GluedToTheScreen

You finally figured out what's fueling us Scandinavians!

@justinerickson @inscius

@justinerickson @inscius

Zeb is one of the main characters in "How the West Was Won".

Centennial was another western TV series. Both American.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCp29JJ_mw8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFnGbZ9O-Eg

@justinerickson @inscius

There is the small country effect, where it becomes too costly to dub foreign movies into the local language, so they go the cheap way, with sub titles.

Some people claim that because of this, the Dutch and Scandinavians have better English.

But with respect to Swedes having no accent, I would claim that some people from North Dakota speak with a terrible Swedish accent.

@justinerickson @inscius

My experience was that I spent the summer of 1990 at Goethe Institute in Berlin for intensive German education, and there was one Swedish student there. Some Americans there remarked that this Swede was speaking English without an accent.

Two years later, a graduate student from North Dakota arrived at the department I was studying, and I thought he sounded just like a Swede.

@justinerickson @inscius

Albert and Herbert?

@inscius @justinerickson

Another series I remember from the late 70s is Centennial!

@inscius @justinerickson

Did you have a bunch of reruns?

@inscius @justinerickson

"How the West Was Won" had a special place in the heart of Norwegians.

We counted James Arness as one of our own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Arness

His family came from Aursnes, a small town not to far from my ancestral home of Ålesund.

https://www.google.com/maps/search/aursnes+norway/@62.400949,6.5544392,4032m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAyMy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

The father of James immigrated to USA and anglicized his surname from Aursnes to Aurnes. James further anglicized his name to Arness.

I remember How the West Was Won, and older Norwegians remember Gunsmoke.

@inscius

Which part of the Sweden were Albert and Herbert from?

@justinerickson @inscius

Alaska, especially the Anchorage area is the one place that instills some homesickness and nostalgia for the fjords of Norway.

@inscius @justinerickson

I would say Denmark and Netherlands are really customer oriented, during my limited time in Germany, I have seen enormous amounts of bad service.

@justinerickson @inscius

There is Norwegian interest in hockey, but the level is simply not up there with the Canadians and the Russians, assuming Russians are still good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A5lerenga_Ishockey

@justinerickson @inscius

Seems like Finland has been ripped off in the Olympics!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_ice_hockey

Ice-hockey as a domestic sport is popular enough in Norway, but the traditional Norwegian skating sport where we won medals is speed-skating.

@justinerickson @inscius

And curling is quite gay, just like figure skating!

@justinerickson @inscius

There was a famous one in the olden days:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonja_Henie