It goes overhead not duck to disappoint snow in the room wheel

Oops, there smoked the garden snake.

 

During my first year at university we went to York. While there, I and a few fellow students had a wee project on mistakes Norwegians make speaking English or translating from Norwegian to English. The title is of course an extreme case and most likely also fake.

We interviewed native English speakers and presented different mistakes, from the dire, to the minuscule ones, to see how they reacted to them and what types of mistakes we can get away with before it results in loss of meaning. The two sentences were added just for the fun of it, but what meaning people tried to extract from it proved very interesting and entertaining.

This post has about as little meaning as the sentences, but every time the room wheel comes around I think about the title sentence, and I thought I’d share. Besides it would be interesting to see what you extract from the two examples.

 

Babling i romjula

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Jul, Norsk

Hodet mitt er i hvilemodus. Jeg har tenkt på å blogge i noen dager nå, men har ikke fått fingen ut. Jeg har minst en million unnskyldninger for hvorfor jeg ikke har bloggen på noen dager, og for å være helt ærlig er grunnene kanongode, og absolutt gyldige. Jeg vil derfor ikke beklage min fraværelse. Jeg har vært omgitt av familien og venner hvert minutt av hver dag. Jeg er utkjørt, men absolutt på en god måte, og har kost meg hele tida. Vi har bare vært hjemme i to dager, og har ikke hatt mer enn ett døgn for oss selv. Vi fikk besøk igjen i går, får mer i morgen, og vil ha folk her til godt utpå nyåret. Det er fantastisk, men som du forstår har jeg derfor ikke mye tid til å gjøre ingenting; som f.eks å blogge.

I dag har vi vært ute og handlet ting til oss selv som vi ikke fikk under treet. Hvor egoistisk og selvsentrert er ikke det? Ja, vi fikk penger til jul fra både folk og arbeidsplass, og har derfor litt ekstra penger å bruke (for ja, selvfølgelig må det brukes!) Det stakkars hodet mitt har måttet bryne seg på store oppgaver de siste dagene ettersom vi har vært på jakt etter ny mp3-spiller som også viser film. Jeg har derfor trålt nettet for å finne den beste i vår prisklasse. Valget falt på denne:

Og nå, vær så snill noen der ute; spør hvorfor vi ikke kjøpte iPod! (det vil gjøre all letingen berettiget)

 

Hm, hva mer har jeg å dele fra den siste uka? En del, og mye komme nok til å komme fram i framtidens poster, men det som må nevnes er den fantastiske tida vi har hatt sammen med familie og venner, goooooooood mat (svigermor kan virkelig kokkelere), sykdom (Sønn har jo begynt i barnehage og ikke engang jul er hellig for virus og basiller. Jeg skal ikke engang liste opp alt immunforsvaret mitt har slitt med for det ville vært alt for innlysende innhenting av sympatipoeng!), vektøkningen har vært minimal (Yay! endelig er jeg på rett kurs), Sønn har storkost seg hvert våkne minutt, og Mannen kan heller ikke klage. En veldig vellykket julefeiring med andre ord!

Post-yule babbling

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Rambling, Yule

My head has gone into nap-mode. I have been thinking about blogging for a few days, but just haven’t got around to do it till now. I have a million other excuses as well for not doing it, but truth be told, I shouldn’t have taken time to do it earlier. My days have been filled with family and friends from the first minutes of the day until the very last. I am exhausted, in a good way, and I have enjoyed every minute of every day. We’ve only been home for two days, and have been alone for only one. New visitors came yesterday, and more will come tomorrow, and some will stay until next year. It’s great. But, it doesn’t give me much time to do nothing, like blogging.

Today we have been out and about getting things for ourselves that we didn’t get for yule. How selfish isn’t that? Well, we did get money from a few kind people and company, and thus had some money to spend. (yes, all money must be spent! Well, not all, but some is ok, right?) My poor head has had to overcome some serious thinking over the past days, and Husband has been looking for a new mp3 player, that would also show films. I have thus (yes, I like that word) thoroughly searched the web for reviews and tests of the affordable gadgets out there, and have now decided to buy this one:And now, please, someone, ask me why we didn’t just buy an iPod!

 

Well, what else do I have to share from the past week or so? Hm, a lot, I will probably get back to you on some of the things, but right now what I can think of is great time with friends and family, gooooood food (MotherInLaw sure can cook!), illness (yes, Son started kindergarten this autumn, so not even yule was holy to those evil viruses and germs – I’m not even going to list everything that went wrong for my immune system the past days, you’d probably end up feeling sorry for me), the weight gain was minimal (I might have finally found the right path…), Son has loved every minuted he has been awake, and Husband can’t complain much either. Very satisfying celebration in other words.