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Originally Posted by dawsey
Ah right, thanks for the explanation.
While I'm being a nosy sod, your English is too good for a Noggie. Are you English, living in Norway?
I know another BM from Norway, Junkhouse, who has great command of English language, but thought maybe he was a one off.
No need to answer if you prefer.
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Not english (perish the thought), born and lived all my life in Norway, however, as usual there is an explanation. The part of Norway I live in has had a huge emigration to the US, people going back and forth for the last 150 years.
My great -grandfather and his siblings went over in the 1880ies, participated in the Klondike, took land, worked on the railroads and so forth. My grandfather was born in the US, and came back to Norway to take over the farm that his father had bought with money made in the goldfields.
My dad was born here, but went over for 10 years, spent four of them in the Navy, and came back again for the farm. His brother and sister live in the Seattle area. My mothers aunt left and married a Mormon in Salt Lake City, so there I have a huge family as well. I've been visiting the US 8-9 times for three weeks to a month each time since I was 5, and every summer for as long as I can remember we've had american visitors staying for a few weeks. I have more close family in Seattle than in Norway.
Also, I am the proverbial bookworm, and since I was fourteen I have mainly read English books. (Hundreds!) Give me two weeks to get into the groove in the US, and I have trouble explaining to people that, "No, Im not an American, and I come from Europe,and no again, not England." When it comes to supremacy of the English language, I rock.
All typing mistakes due to new keybord with wave-form from Logitech, which means that my fingers doesn't always hit the right key.
