Yes, it made it more interesting…

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

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.

From Norway. Lived in a handful of countries the last decade or so. Probably going back to Norway this summer. Always a bigger culture shock than going abroad.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Vær så venlig?

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

It was hanging in the air, quite still. I put the (manual) focus at the shortest possible distance (ca 40 cm) and then took several pictures, hoping one of them would turn out OK.

wow. Beautiful!

In academia, I would guess most Europeans consider race a social construct and not a lens through which one judges other people. Yes, we’re all leaning more and more right, unfortunately, but race is seldom a major part of what makes someone an Other. (But I do know it can be, my daughter-in-law is from Uganda). Outside academia… I would hope most Europeans are more informed than most trumpists.