My favourite was the strange blonde police woman verging on autism. When told she should lighten up and converse with her colleagues she entered the station and informed them that 'today I started my period.'
Gritty Scandinavian detective series are all the rage on our tellies at the moment. They're really good but unlike most subtitled programmes where you can start to pick out key phrases in the original language all you ever hear is a low rolling thunder punctuated by the occasional word in English. It comes as a relief when somebody speaks in Russian or Estonian.
Hmm, interesting. If they're in Danish then you'll never be able to pick out any words at all; in Swedish one might hope to recognise 'ombudsman' or 'IKEA'. How 'gritty' does it get in downtown Oslo?
My favourite was the strange blonde police woman verging on autism. When told she should lighten up and converse with her colleagues she entered the station and informed them that 'today I started my period.'
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DeleteThey all seem to verge on autism, it's quite odd how distant they all are with themselves.
Who are these people? Anyway, I'd always assumed that they didn't have crime in Scandinavia....
ReplyDeleteGritty Scandinavian detective series are all the rage on our tellies at the moment. They're really good but unlike most subtitled programmes where you can start to pick out key phrases in the original language all you ever hear is a low rolling thunder punctuated by the occasional word in English. It comes as a relief when somebody speaks in Russian or Estonian.
ReplyDeleteHmm, interesting. If they're in Danish then you'll never be able to pick out any words at all; in Swedish one might hope to recognise 'ombudsman' or 'IKEA'. How 'gritty' does it get in downtown Oslo?
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