h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I noticed your entry on the DNA page, thought you might like to know when I was a scot living in Norway I made the english department have hhg as a set text, ie, compulsory reading!
hxx

Excellent!
When and where was this?

I was an excange student there in 1996, and I went back to college in 1999, so I can get by in Norwegian, badly. It was partly the fault of my friend kamilla, who was ahuge hitchhikers fan too. I was much called upon to explain things like, the point of tea!
Love and Huggles (which I think everyone needs at the mo)
Hxx

What kind of school was this?

And yeah, we most definetely do!

Videragaande. If thats how you spell it, its been a while since I was back! High school. Then I went to Hoegskulen i Bergen.
Hxx

Nearly! it's "videregående"!
Well, I'm impressed! Never thought it'd be possible to make Norwegian schools change their old ways...
Bergen is a lovely city, don't you think?

m, I've always loved it there, espcially when I lived in the halls of residence next to ulriksbanen, bugger of a hill to walk up, but really great views once you got there! Knew I'd spelt that wrong, but I was in Foerde, and those nynorsk speakers just tried to set out to confuse me! The family I lived with went round labeling everything in the house so that I could learn the word for it, but in nynorsk, so I thought window was vinduauge and bizzare things like that!
hxx

(feels bad about that, am I allowed to laugh at a time like this? Surely, I must be, after all, humor _was_ DNAs legacy, right?)

Yeah, well, here on Østlandet we call nynorsk "spy-norsk"...

I'm sorry, my last post got removed, did it have one too many norwegian words in it? I thought I had explained it quite well by writing the english next too it too.
I'm really quite p****d of at that!
hxx

I can understand! That doesn't make any sense at all! I mean, if they were to remove that posting, they should remove the entire conversation... (please, Mr/Ms/Mrs Moderator, don't do that...)

A thought just crossed my mind... It was the moderation you were p****d at, not me referring to nynorsk as "spy-norsk"...?

Yes, the moderation. I quite agree if anyone in my class had wanted to talk about me they could have managed it quite well in Spy Norwegian!

I really want to write something REALLY offensive about the moderators at the minute, so I'm going to log off before I launch into a tirade, and I can swear in a lot of languages. Though english is always the best.

Actually, yes... When I swear I use a good deal of English, even though I'm talking Norwegian or Danish. Not that swear particularly much... So, you cooled off now...

I dunno, I haven't read the reply to the post I put on the moderators page!
hxx

*for a while, nothing happens*
*then, nothing continues to happen*

Sorry it's back now - yes that one was silly, it shouldn't have been removed, sorry.

Thanks Peta.
Its bad enough that me and oneeye can't gosip in norwegian so he can help me with my spelling.
Hxx

Sorry to intrude... but may I say that, as a linguist, Norwegian IS quite interesting. Jeg kanne ikke snakke god norsk (I can't speak good Norwegian) but it's certainly been fun trying.

Jim

How long have you been trying?

i found that by going to school there I picked it up pretty smartly!!
Hxx

About 2 years, on and off. I don't have time to get into it as I'm doing A-Levels.

Jim