My Norwegian teacher's gasping is starting to irritate me.
Norwegians have little conception of shared space, it seems. They don't move if you're trying to squeeze by them in a bar or walk past them in the street. As a result, you have to force your way through groups of them, and although it hasn't happened to me yet, I've heard several stories of Norwegians walking into people on an otherwise empty sidewalk.
The Norwegians apparently don't have (or use) a word for "love". Rather, they use a phrase that is the equivalent of "fond of". I believe they use it for food and inanimate objects as well as people.
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does this mean that they are "colder" than their american cousins? hee hee. it surprises me, though, that they don't have a word for "love" - I thought that was a pretty universal concept.
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