Tusen takk - Thank you
Ha det bra - Bye bye (directly: Have it good)
Vær så snill - Please

Ja - Yes
Nei - No

Hjelp - Help
Billett - ticket (as in tickets for the bus/tram)

Geitost - Goats cheese (the brown type)
Flykræsj - Plane crash (slang for "makrel in tomato")
Knekkebrød - Cracker bread

Kan jeg få litt knekkebrød med geitost, vær så snill? - Can I have some cracker bread with goat cheese, please?

Kan jeg få smalahove til hovedrett, er du snill? - Can I please have the Norwegian delicasse "smalahove" for a main course, please?
Bloom - can you enlighten them as to what one of our national dishes is, please?

DOWNTOWN
Øl - Beer
Ringnes - The best beer brand
En øl - One beer
To øl - Two beers

Good(?) phrase to blow off the hookers and pushers on lower main street:
Nei, tusen takk, ikke i dag. (No, thank you, not today)

FOTBALL
Klanen - the clan (The Enga supporters, the "12th player" on the team)
Enga ruler - Enga rules (Enga is the best football team in the country, in the lower half of the rankings)
Hører dere bønda nå? Nei Nei - Can you hear the farmers now? No. No. (One of the Klan Chants)




-<nerdo>-

FOOD
Makrell i tomat - Canned mackerel in tomato sauce (also known as flykræsj)
Smalahove - brain of sheep


DRINKS
Te - tea
Kaffe - coffee
Cola - Coke
Solo - Orange soda
Vann - Water


FOOTBALL
Apeberget - The monkey hill, also known as Klanen.


Bloom

...smalahove is the whole head, eyes, cheeks and all!!!

Apeberget......Yupp....We have a chant that goes something like this: o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o
Gutteral O's. Like the monkeys, we are!



-<nerdo>-

"Skol"....don't know the spelling. It equals "Cheers"

I'm trying to learn a bit of Swedish and I wondered how far Swedish would get me in Norway?

Some words look similar ja/ja nej/nei jag/jeg or are they just superficially similar?

Regards

John

...
Most bartenders and training instructors in Oslo are Swedish.
Norwegians mostly understand both Swedish and Danish. Unless it's a weird dialect...

-<nerdo>-

I had to check my gag reflex looking at Bloom's photo.
I'll eat brown goat cheese but I have my limits.

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Thanks for posting it.

Rimmer: So, let me get this straight. You want to fly on a magic carpet to see the King of the Potato People and plead with him for your freedom, and you're telling me you are completely sane?!

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