View Full Version : Norway Pride!!
Hiromi
07-22-2005, 04:19 PM
In celebration of my heritage, I'm going to widen all your lingual horizons... *ahem*
Penga eller livet.
Your money or your life.
Vær så snill å gi meg noen klær, jeg er naken.
Please give me some clothes, I am naked.
Kan jeg få låne ølen din?
May I borrow your beer?
:D For Trin
The next time I'm stranded in Norway without money, beer or clothes, I'll know what to do. Why do I have the feeling Hiromi is going to ensure that such a situation comes to pass? >.>
Hiromi
07-22-2005, 04:21 PM
kek kek kek...
You know me too well Trin... too well indeed.
Kiros
07-22-2005, 04:24 PM
Indeed, these are essential phrases, pehapes you need a beer, Kan jeg få låne ølen din? The man says no, so you take a different approch.
Perhapes you threaten a man, Penga eller livet. then he beats you up and steals everything you own and you need to beg on the streets, Vær så snill å gi meg noen klær, jeg er naken.
At thats how it happened..
Hiromi
07-22-2005, 04:24 PM
lol Kiros, that's the best response I've seen all day
Kiros
07-22-2005, 04:26 PM
Why thank you ever so much, i just wanted to let you know... jeg er naken.
What a fun coincidence! The day after this thread is made, I join, and I happen to be from Norway. how fun to see you guys writing Norwegian. ^--^
Hiromi: Do you know Nowegian? All of it, I mean? Or just phrases like these?
Penga eller livet.
Your money or your life.
Stricktly speaking, penga is slang. You should use pengene if you want to be entirely correct. Though penga would maybe be better when speaking, well, with this epression at least. And direktly translated it's "The money or the life" It might be weird in english, but it works in Norwegian.
Kan jeg få låne ølen din?
May I borrow your beer?
I wouldn't think this is a common phrase, at least not where I'm from. Like it is, you'd be expected to hand the beer back. I would say "kan jeg få en øl?" "Can I have a beer?" would be better.
And I would like to supplement this collection with my own.
"Se, en elg." "Look, a moose."
Hiromi
07-22-2005, 08:17 PM
That's awesome! Welcome to the forums :D Actually, no, I don't speak norwegian. Wish I did! I actually have life insurance through Sons of Norway - and I get packets with phrases. Like, "Do you know how to dogsled?" XD Makes me laugh every time.
Greven
07-22-2005, 09:13 PM
As a Sweede I have a natural instinct of wanting to smite everything related to Norway...
Kiros
07-22-2005, 09:22 PM
Im part japanese, (jumping on the bandwagon) and part native american.. weird.. haha
ShininShado
07-22-2005, 11:05 PM
I have Nordic ancestry, namely part Swede, part Danish, very very proud of it - and the main reason I played Dark Ages of Camelot - to be a Viking.
Slots
07-23-2005, 12:15 AM
yep i get to have that mix of Filipino and some Irish-American ... fun mix eh?
anyway! ... the first person from norway i met ... ahd this incredible urge to eat things... and i mean ... EVERYTHING ... go in the IRC channel and BAM your eaten ...
I'm 100% Indian. Beat that, suckas! :P
Hiromi
07-23-2005, 09:30 AM
I've got Norwegian and German, methinks. When I was a little kid I thought I was related to Macauley Culkin.
No joke.
ODA-NOBUNAGA
08-01-2005, 09:52 AM
As a Sweede I have a natural instinct of wanting to smite everything related to Norway...
Haha i guess that goes both ways huh? I was out with my Norwegian friend and some guy asked where she was from, she said Norway. He was like oh thats in Sweden right?
Needless to say she wasnt too happy
Oh and I'm 100% English, whatever that means in an island thats been invaded by so many different cultures throughout history. lol
SunWuKong
08-01-2005, 03:59 PM
As a Sweede I have a natural instinct of wanting to smite everything related to Norway...I'm not much, but I'm with ya.
wÖÖt
Slots
08-01-2005, 05:16 PM
hahaha somewhere here in SC ... there is a norway.... next to a sweeden... wonder if there are fights between the two...
moses
08-01-2005, 06:15 PM
im irish, polish, mainly
hahaha somewhere here in SC ... there is a norway.... next to a sweeden... wonder if there are fights between the two...
We recently celebrated 100 years since we ut loose from Sweeden, and that went fairly ok. Only 7000 deaths and riots..
Kidding. The most hostile thing happening between Norway and Sweeden now is making jokes about each other.
Acctually, many Norwegians living close to the border often cross it to buy cheap goods there.
Edit: In "SC"? What did you mean by that?
Slots
08-01-2005, 11:13 PM
South Carolina the state i live in >.>. i got too lazy to type the whole thing out...
Well, I'm Finnish but my whole name is a "swedish" name. >_< My dad's grandmother's mother was from sweden, I think. But I mainly speak finnish. Swedish in school doh*.
And in Finland we make jokes of Norweigans and Swedes. :nutkick:
ShininShado
08-05-2005, 09:13 AM
Norway is a great country. For some reason a lot of Scandanavians drawn to this community. I tried to figure a connection, but not sure.