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Made in Denmark: February 2012
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Inspired by the World. Saturday, 25 February 2012. The Quirkiness of Britain. Everyone knows the British have a special sense of humour and noone knows how to have fun and dress up like the British. When you've lived in London for a few years, you don't look twice at the teletubbie or man in a tiger-costume on the tube. I recently saw an ad that summs up the bonkersness of the Brits:. The chasing of the cheese down a mountain is an actual annual event. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I want to hear what read...
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Made in Denmark: November 2012
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Inspired by the World. Sunday, 25 November 2012. The Danish Language Authorities. DLA for this purpose) have the habit of documenting the language rather than leading. This creates a massive grey-zone in what is correct Danish and what is not. As a Danish linguist, this was a challenging situation until the website www.sproget.dk was launched a few years ago. Before then, you had to pay for dictionaries and textbooks that were already out of date by about 10 years when released. The DLA provide a descrip...
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Made in Denmark: January 2013
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Inspired by the World. Tuesday, 29 January 2013. A tourist's guide to Copenhagen. One of my friends went to Copenhagen recently and I wrote a little guide for him, highlighting a few of my favourite parts of the city. Here it is:. There is a lovely area for coffee and lunch close by called "Torvehallerne". In that area, you will also find the Zoo - the Elephants are even visible from the public park "Frederiksberg Have". And that is also a nice park. And there is a castle, where you may be able t...There...
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Made in Denmark: Nordic Noir goes south of the border
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Inspired by the World. Monday, 23 February 2015. Nordic Noir goes south of the border. Last night the first episode of the new Danish crime series "Murder without Borders". Was broadcast. Three prostitutes are found killed in Copenhagen, Berlin and Antwerp, respectively. As you would expect from the name it takes an international team of investigators to work on the case. I assume the reference to "Doctors without Borders" is chosen because of its catchiness and not because the murderer(s? The German lea...
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Made in Denmark: Flights with Great Scandinavian Writers
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Inspired by the World. Tuesday, 30 October 2012. Flights with Great Scandinavian Writers. When I fly Norwegian. I am reconnected with literature which has described Scandinavian cultures for centuries. Lately, I flew with a plane that had a large image of Aksel Sandemose. And his name printed on its tail. He was the one who coined the term "Janteloven" which is something all Scandinavians suffer from to various degrees. I have also flown with Selma Lagerlöf. Who wrote the fantastic story. Urban Dictionar...
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Made in Denmark: Madrid
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Inspired by the World. Saturday, 10 January 2015. Going to Madrid in September is a great idea, when you live in a colder country. It was my last chance of the year to wear shorts and t-shirt. It is a nice city. Many people don't speak English, but that doesn't stop them. I was impressed at how many conversations I had, without understanding the words, but everything worked out perfectly in the end. Whether it was trying to get a taxi to take me somewhere or ordering food in a restaurant. The New Adventu...
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Made in Denmark: A tourist's guide to Copenhagen
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Inspired by the World. Tuesday, 29 January 2013. A tourist's guide to Copenhagen. One of my friends went to Copenhagen recently and I wrote a little guide for him, highlighting a few of my favourite parts of the city. Here it is:. There is a lovely area for coffee and lunch close by called "Torvehallerne". In that area, you will also find the Zoo - the Elephants are even visible from the public park "Frederiksberg Have". And that is also a nice park. And there is a castle, where you may be able t...There...
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Made in Denmark: November 2011
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Inspired by the World. Wednesday, 30 November 2011. In the Nordic countries, there is a policy. That you have the right to communicate in your own language in fellow Nordic countries. This covers Denmark (incl. Greenland and the Pharaoh Islands), Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland. For articles in Danish on the topic, see:. Nordisk sprogpolitik – skandinavisk som fælles platform. Sproglige rettigheder i Grønland, Rigsfælleskabet og Norden. Saturday, 12 November 2011. In my flatshare we have a Bulgarian gir...
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Made in Denmark: December 2011
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Inspired by the World. Friday, 30 December 2011. Gender roles in Nordics vs English speaking countries. My English colleague recently shared this video with me:. I know some English and American people who think like that, but very few from the Nordics who can see themselves in this picture. Certainly, no one in my family fits (unless we go back to past generations perhaps). She can earn the money and keep the household running so if all he does is making a mess, what does she need him for? As human bein...
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Made in Denmark: April 2015
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Inspired by the World. Monday, 27 April 2015. Cabaret in a War-Zone. The Danish Royal Theatre have set up an impressive performance of Cabaret with extravagant costumes one minute and grey and minimalistic settings the next. It runs until end of May and you can get tickets on the Theatre's website. You can also read more about it in Danish. This becomes very explicit in one scene, where Nazi-soldiers are violent to one of the characters while the Conférencier. This Sally Bowles character is not an attemp...
