9 thoughts on “cross”

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   September 1, 2003 02:06

   Marcelo

   Hei, jeg heter Marcelo og jeg bo i Brasil. Norsk mitt er
   ikke godt, jeg skal snakke i Engelske nÂ…

   Hi, I hope your English be good. In case of the message
   above do not make any sense, here it is:

   My name is Marcelo, I live in Brasil. My Norwegian is
   not very good, although I think it is one of the most
   beautiful languages in the world, but I am improving it
   the best I can… You must be wondering the reason I end
   up falling into your blog. Well, I enjoy visiting
   Norwegian pages, in order to learn some stuff about this
   country (my goal is one day to be able to read Ibsen in
   the original), luckly your blog was in English…

   I hope you return this message and we can start to share
   something of ours. Finally, I would like to invite you
   to visite my blog (although you will not understand a
   thing, because it is in Portuguese). Here is the address:

   http://www.barbaricvs.blogger.com.br/index.html

   I am already waiting for you.

   Bye-bye. Ha det godt!

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   September 1, 2003 14:26

   Susana

   oh my god, that is also the reason why James Joyce learned Norwegian, I wonder if Ibsen is responsible for a lot of headaches… 🙂

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3. 

   September 1, 2003 14:28

   Jill

   James Joyce learned Norwegian so he could read Ibsen? Good grief.

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4. 

   September 1, 2003 15:21

   Eirik

   What’s with the “good grief”? I can hardly think of a better reason for learning Norwegian. And compared to, say, Shakespeare or MoliÈre, the venerable Henrik is far easier on the little gray cells. “Ikke ¯l i en sÂdan stund, gi meg fl¯yten!” 🙂

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5. 

   September 2, 2003 00:57

   Mum

   There’s also that American actor, Earle Hyman, who began studying Norwegian, teaching himself to read and write it just so that he could read Ibsen in the original. Earle followed up by contacting Ibsen’s grandson and his wife, and arranged to visit them in 1957. Since then he’s become a regular visitor with a distinguished acting career on the Norwegian Stage (as well as being the screen grandfather to the Cosby family). I saw him play Othello once and he did it brilliantly in a fullbodied Norwegian dialect.

   Meanwhile, that handbag thing, was the comment a bit of Ern Malley light or did I just not get it?

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6. 

   September 2, 2003 04:30

   Mum

   They say you laugh at a joke 3 times, once when you hear it, the second time when it’s explained to you and the third time when you wake up at 4 Am because you just GOT it! Well, I’m up packing for an early flight – and it’s not long after 4 AM. And now I SEE IT!!! Easily. The criss cross or kiss cross if you prefer! The frustrations of looking for a metaphor lurking in among the words rather than a straight forward visual symbol in the photo are totally disipated. Neat.

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7. 

   September 2, 2003 11:49

   Jill

   OK, so it’s perfectly standard to learn Norwegian so you can read Ibsen. I’ve never tried reading Ibsen in translation, spoilt as I am, but I’ve read Shakespeare in Norwegian and HATE it. So it does seem likely Ibsen is better in Norwegian.

   Mum, so glad you saw the cross, I hadn’t even thought of people not seeing it – perhaps most people don’t?

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8. 

   September 3, 2003 10:36

   Eirik

   I, for one, did not get the cross point, and spent some time scratching my head. And speaking of not getting jokes… 😉

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9. 

   September 3, 2003 18:27

   Marcelo

   I think i’m gonna quit this reading Ibsen idea! Please…

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