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i like Germany. In German father sounds just like farter and makes my four year old daughter giggle
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You should visit Dalmatia. Since we were ruled by Greeks, Romans, Ilyrs, Venezians, Turks, French, Austrians, Italians and finally Slavs throughout the years, we've got a quite of mixed genes, and chicks rule that way 
The bad thing about it, they know it too, so they are playing hard to get 102% of the time.
I'd like to say something nice about North Korea.
The bad thing about it, they know it too, so they are playing hard to get 102% of the time.
I'd like to say something nice about North Korea.
Forostar
Ancient Mariner
"Swedes are stupid" says Norwegian professor
Not nice also allowed?
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A retired Norwegian linguistics professor has described Swedes as "stupid" for not being able to understand Norwegian. Norwegians have no problem with Swedish, the professor points out.
read on:
http://www.thelocal.se/21208/20090810/
Not nice also allowed?
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A retired Norwegian linguistics professor has described Swedes as "stupid" for not being able to understand Norwegian. Norwegians have no problem with Swedish, the professor points out.
read on:
http://www.thelocal.se/21208/20090810/
Dr. Eddies Wingman
Brighter than thousand_suns
I liked the following comment, from "Greg, Canada":
"The relationship between the Scandinavian cousins - Swedes, Norwegians and Danes can get quite humorous at times. Very much like a dysfunctional family."
This is so true. There is of course some rivalry between us, but I think media like to play it up from time to time.
That being said, I find it a bit strange that many more Swedes have trouble understanding Norwegian than vice versa. Of course, when Norway and Sweden were in a union with Sweden undoubtedly being the big brother, it is obvious that more Norwegians had to deal with the Swedish language than the other way around, but that union ended in 1905 ... For people from south-eastern parts of Norway, one contribution might be that we had access to Swedish television long before we got a variety of Norwegian TV channels. Until the late 80's, all we had was the Norwegian National Broadcasting (NRK) and the Swedish SVT1&2. So I guess we have watched more Swedish TV than the Swedes have been watching Norwegian TV.
"The relationship between the Scandinavian cousins - Swedes, Norwegians and Danes can get quite humorous at times. Very much like a dysfunctional family."
This is so true. There is of course some rivalry between us, but I think media like to play it up from time to time.
That being said, I find it a bit strange that many more Swedes have trouble understanding Norwegian than vice versa. Of course, when Norway and Sweden were in a union with Sweden undoubtedly being the big brother, it is obvious that more Norwegians had to deal with the Swedish language than the other way around, but that union ended in 1905 ... For people from south-eastern parts of Norway, one contribution might be that we had access to Swedish television long before we got a variety of Norwegian TV channels. Until the late 80's, all we had was the Norwegian National Broadcasting (NRK) and the Swedish SVT1&2. So I guess we have watched more Swedish TV than the Swedes have been watching Norwegian TV.
