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  • Yeah sadly she counts as a royal, but the civilian in the picture is her sister in laws son pre marriage into the royal family. So technically not a royal, but might as well be.

    Most people in Norway like the king and the queen, and the crown Prince and the crown princess, and their children (together), they used to like this guy too before he got caught doing all this illegal shit

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  • Wife stops me when I managed to be productive for the first time in two months... Sorry babe, if I'm stopping doing this to help you now, I'm not going to be able to continue this task for at least 3 months

  • I'm surprised Philippines isn't regarded as over 90% in Asia they are second only to Singapore which indeed has a blue dot.

    I think it depends on how strict a definition you put on it. According to pna.gov.ph less than 9% of adults dont use English at all. And I guess this doesn't include taglish, because I dont think they mean mixing the word shorts into the language is using English

    So I guess its a matter of definition, if you can afford to go to school nearly everyone can speak English, if you can't go to school English proficiency drops but over 90% at least use English sometimes. As from 4th grade they primarily use English to teach in school for most subjects

    At least in Norway and Iceland (yes nearly other European countries as well) translate Disney movies to their local language. The Philippines doesn't, they serve English as English is one of the two official languages and has been since it was US territory.

    I was surprised when sitting in the back of the class of first grade in Norway that most kids wasn't able to use English conversationally (yet), but that is just my ignorance, and rather I should be surprised to see most kids knew basic words in English instead. But its hard to have perspective when my multilingual daughter had conversational English from 2 years

  • This is exactly what I am trying to explain to my wife when she calls a wasp a bumblebee in front of our daughter.

    Apes are monkeys no matter shat they say in the planet of the apes remake because apes are a subgroup of monkeys, and whales are fish because fish doesn't mean anything, and bamboo is wood because wood doesn't mean anything. And a banana is not a tree, but I'd really like to taste a banana flower I heard it's good

  • Baldur's Gate 3 @lemmy.world
    ziggurat @lemmy.world

    Balders Gate is the name of a street in Oslo, Norway

    I hope this fluff post will be allowed if I actually share some facts about DnD and etymology

    Balders Gate is named after the Norse god Baldr/Balder/Baldur

    Baldur in DnD is named after a legendary explorer Baldurian from Faerûn, name obviously inspired by the norse god's name.

    The word Gate means street in Norwegian, as well in Swedish/Danish/Icelandish but its spelled differently in those languages

    The word Gate in English is a cognate with the word Gate in Norwegian, meaning they stem from the same root word, incidentally they are also spelled the same way today, which is not a requirement to be a cognate, Gate in English is also a cognate with the word for street in other nordic languages even though they spell it differently.

    Swedish still spell it the same as in Old Norse, Gata, which at the that point meant path, road, or way, which is how it is used in current day nordic languages, but you can see how the English word Gate is now used for an entrance with a door of some ki