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New Counting Method

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 The new counting method is a changed way of describing the numbers between 20 and 100. The old way of counting gave, for example, 21, 22, 23 as pronunciation twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, while the new way was to be twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three. In 1949, the Telegraph Board wrote in a letter to the Ministry of Transport and Communications that the reading of figures should follow the order in which the figures were written. The Telegraph Board had carried out a study which showed that writing down the numbers gave considerably less error in the number read first, such as fifty-three for 53. The new method of counting was discussed in a professional committee which was the forerunner of the Language Council. The case was sent out for consultation and the responses to the consultation certainly provided the greatest support for the new scheme. On 22 November 1950, the Storting joined the new scheme. The new counting method was introduced on 1 July 1951. Telegraph dir...
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Henrik Ibsen

  Henrik   Johan Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playwrights of his time. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, When We Dead Awaken, Rosmersholm, and The Master Builder. Ibsen is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House was the world's most performed play in 2006. Ibsen's Life Ibsen's early poetic and cinematic play Peer Gynt has strong surreal elements. After Peer Gynt Ibsen abandoned verse and wrote in realistic prose. Several of his later dramas were considered scandalous to many of his era when European theatre was expected to model strict morals of family life and propriety. Ibsen's later work examined the realities that lay behind the façades...
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The Norwegian language Linguistic background Norwegian belongs to the northern branch of the Germanic language along with Swedish, Danish, Icelandic and Faroese. Except for small communities of migrants, the language is not spoken outside Norway. Norwegian is particularly close to Swedish and Danish. In general, speakers of the three languages are easily able to understand each other, even though this ability has been deteriorating during the last generation. By acquiring Danish, Swedish or Norwegian, the speaker can communicate with about 20 million speakers. Today Icelandic and Faeroese are relatively distant from Norwegian and not understandable for Norwegian speakers. Bokmål - Nynorsk When describing Norwegian, it is important to distinguish clearly between the written and the spoken language. In writing there are two official norms,  Bokmål  (literally "Book Language") and  Nynorsk  (literally "New Norwegian").  Spoken Norwegian in general refers to the dif...
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