Small sample size. But jumping from unknown to 3rd place in an Iowa poll with no benefit of name recognition is pretty impressive.
Well, I did it for a second vacation there because I got tired of not understanding it the first time around. (Hint: It's not that hard, if you know English and German.) I also read quite a few other languages...
Well here's your chance to help translate this sign if you can. Pic taken by my brother after he and his wife were evacuated from that cruise ship:
It's a poster for a handball tournament. I particularly like the last line - "It's your child playing handball - not you." Sounds like they have some of the same parent problems we have...Well here's your chance to help translate this sign if you can. Pic taken by my brother after he and his wife were evacuated from that cruise ship:
OK thank you, Earle. This makes sense because I believe it was a school they were taken to. I wonder if my brother understands any of that written on the sign...ha ha. I'll ask and let you know. I think they are home now - West Palm Beach.
I didn't spell out each line. It's just the rules for the tournament, where to gather, etc. I learned Bokmål, the standard for the country and used mostly in the east. It has a strong resemblance to Danish. In the west, they speak Nynorsk, which despite the name is really older. I have a couple of Facebook Norwegian friends who live even west of Bergen. Their dialect is "Vestlandet," and it differs significantly from Nynorsk. I stretch my brain by using that, even though it's basically regarded as sort of a "country" dialect. I interpreted a German warning which a friend had taken a pic of, warning of CO when the stove was lit, in an old German bunker. I used the Nynorsk for the word "warning." She replied that, at last, I was "at home" in Nynorsk. Interesting phrase. I had an elderly German neighbor comment that I was "at home" in German...
