Archive for August, 2009
Lange ord Posted by kari on Aug 6, 2009
long words. Norsk is notorious for long words, most of which are conglomerations of several words. A professional linguist would probably be able to tell you why this is the case, but I can give speculation a shot-why create an entirely new word when you can use 2 or more existing words to describe something? …
begravelser Posted by kari on Aug 3, 2009
funerals. I know that this is a depressing topic, but I have spent the last week mourning the death of a very close friend and thus got to thinking it is a topic worth learning about in terms of language and traditions for people learning a new language. Begravelser in Scandinavian history were similar to…