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josteinsn

@ josteinsn @lemmy.world

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  • 100km now, but even though i say I’m from there, i have no family and barely any acquaintances left. Still can do the dialect, though, if i make an effort. Usually don’t. And in a couple of years, I’ll move hundreds or thousands of kilometres away. Again.

  • This is for people who have moved away from their home town or have lived in multiple locations long term. Do you ever forget where you are?

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  • Yes. Usually when waking up or after dozing off. In extreme cases, i sometimes know i am in location A, and yet struggle to accept it — the sounds or smells or something is just too reminiscent of location B.

  • What's an unexpected skill you have?

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  • Long story short: taught kids about swearing as s substitute teacher, got the principal (my mother) in trouble, wrote a manuscript about swearing, interviewed a linguist about religion for the humanist (atheist) magazine, she invited me to join her book project on swearing, the book was published, the «kulturelle skolesekken» (bringing culture to schools) invited me to tour the northernmost, most swearing part of Norway to talk about swearing.

    https://www.nettavisen.no/teacher-taugth-swearwords-in-religion-class/s/12-95-151785

  • What's an unexpected skill you have?

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  • I’m a crossing guard at school. My amazing trick is to balance the lollipop on my nose.

    I also know some Shakespearean sonnets and the first page of finnegans wake by heart, but that’s usually more expected.

    The most wow reaction i had from my sons’ friends was when i swore better than them. But then again, i once went on a two week tour to schools teaching the kids how to swear, so .., no big deal.

  • Do you run a YouTube channel? Tell us about it

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  • Yes! But like all projects, they die quickly.

    One channel for poems, mostly in Norwegian, but the occasional English/German as well Joyce!

    Another for teaching Norwegian (in English) Some years old now

  • My journey towards more European, open source, privacy-oriented, and decentralized alternatives

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  • Yes, true… I’ve heard people in several countries say yr is their preferred service, so it must be quite good in general.

  • My journey towards more European, open source, privacy-oriented, and decentralized alternatives

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  • Yr is Norwegian and great for some places, but often mistaken re amount of rain in other places — here in Switzerland, eg, meteosuisse is much better.

  • Rubik's cube

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  • Yes, we have a slight suspicion and are on the case. It’s challenging when you are very much not adhd, WHY CAN’T HE JUST DO THIS IT’S SO EASY, but my job is to understand and help, not force my way of thinking unto his. Thanks for corroborating my hunch, though.

  • Rubik's cube

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  • Yes, just got a magnet one. He was over the moon. He is one of those kids who has a hard time with everything boring, like brushing his teeth or cleaning his room, but can lose himself for hours on end in the most impossible tasks when he has the drive. At the moment, his mania is the cube. So a magnet cube is indeed very much worth it.

  • Rubik's cube

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  • Haha, are you a carpenter? Cause a nail might have been hit on the head :)

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Rubik's cube

  • How many languages can you say Please and Thank You in?

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  • Vær så venlig?

  • How many languages can you say Please and Thank You in?

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  • Define language… Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, English, French, German, BHS (Bosnian Croatian, Serbian), Esperanto, Czech, Russian, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish… i think that’s it.

  • Bilingual people, when you were/if you are in school, did/do you ever talk to someone who speaks your language in that language so that the teachers won’t understand?

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  • Ja, men har bodd litt rundt i verden. Barna har lært bishops av sin bosnisk-norske mor og arabisk da vi bodde i Marokko 2018-2021 (men alt glemt mye).

  • Bilingual people, when you were/if you are in school, did/do you ever talk to someone who speaks your language in that language so that the teachers won’t understand?

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  • Jeg kan snakke norsk på ut- og innpust, jeg:)

  • Bilingual people, when you were/if you are in school, did/do you ever talk to someone who speaks your language in that language so that the teachers won’t understand?

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  • Well, I didn’t, as the teachers all spoke both my languages (Norwegian and English), but my kids do it all the time, with me and at school: they go to an international school (English/French) and often use Norwegian or Bosnian or even smatterings of Arabic just to mix things up, depending of who they want to understand.

  • What's one of your favorite genres of music and what's your favorite thing about it?

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  • Bach. Both easy to listen to and a never ending trove of new discoveries. Emotional and yet silly. Spiritual even for an atheist. Simple yet cerebral. Occasionally melancholy yet always life affirming. Rule bound, yet jazzy.

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    Finnegans wake: the first page while trying to get out of a forest

  • It's called a wedding ring, but surely it should be called a marriage ring

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  • No, a poison ring is a giftring, without the e. Don’t know why.

  • It's called a wedding ring, but surely it should be called a marriage ring

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  • In Norwegian same thing: giftering, “the state of being married-ring”. Jeg er gift = i am married. It also means “I am poison”, though.

  • What's A Piece Of Software You Could Never Do Without?

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  • Obsidian.