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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • I have friends that worked for a company that a US company bought. They sent people from the “top brass” from the US to reform the company and implement an American work culture. This is Norway, so 90 percent of what they implemented was illegal.

    The boss/employer culture is pretty different, too. If you set a meeting after 15.00 on a friday, people will call you an idiot to your face and refuse to attend - no matter your position in the company.

    “The American dream” lasted only a few months after almost all of the developers quit and got new jobs within seconds. Last I’ve heard of that company was when they closed doors.




  • We got a governing body that decides what is correct or not when it comes to our two written languages, bokmål and nynorsk. They do not control speach and what is “correct” to say. I recent years the younger generations (I’m millenial, so not young any more 😢) have began merging two sounds, the sj- /∫/ og kj-sounds /ç/ with only the sj-sound. They can’t even hear the diference. This results in funny situations for us who can hear and pronounce the different sounds when used in words.

    Kjede, pronounced with /ç/ at the start, means chain (can be used to describe various types of chains).

    Sjede, pronounced with /∫/ at the start, means vagina.

    The younger generation pronounced both words with /∫/ at the start. This makes the word “kjedekollisjon” not mean “chain collision” any more, but “vagina collision”. “Halskjede” with a /∫/, suddenly means “neck vagina”, not “necklace”. And so on. Language is fun.