{"id":373,"date":"2013-10-14T10:22:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T09:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/?p=373"},"modified":"2013-10-14T10:22:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T09:22:22","slug":"crazy-long-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"Crazy long words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE&nbsp;<em>Wall Street Journal&nbsp;<\/em>last week had a <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323855804578511381869336080.html\">sweet article<\/a> about non-Nordic Europeans learning languages like Norwegian and Finnish, the better to be able to sing along with their favorite Nordic metal bands:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>&#8220;It&#8217;s quite a well-known phenomenon that students in Italy study Norwegian because they&#8217;re interested in metal,&#8221; Ms. [Siri] Nergaard [,a teacher,] said. Irene Burdese, currently teaching Norwegian to 92 people in Turin, and Milan-based Kristian Bjornsen, who is also teaching the language to Italians, both say Norway&#8217;s unique brand of &#8220;black metal&#8221;\u2014a darker blend of thick beats and sometimes-Satanic themes\u2014is a big inspiration.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The piece says that these fans must be very devoted indeed. The reason? &nbsp;They must learn languages with&nbsp;<em>very long words<\/em>. &nbsp;<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span><span>Norwegian has some long words too, such as <strong>fylkestrafikksikkerhetsutvalgssekretariatslederfunksjonene<\/strong>, a not-commonly used word meaning a county&#8217;s traffic security committee&#8217;s leader&#8217;s functions. <strong>Engstelige toner<\/strong> is Norwegian for &#8220;anxious notes,&#8221; referring to music, and <strong>ansiktsmaling<\/strong> means face paint. Some words are the same as in English;&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21579422?fsrc=rss\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<p>via Johnson http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21579422?fsrc=rss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE&nbsp;Wall Street Journal&nbsp;last week had a sweet article about non-Nordic Europeans learning languages like Norwegian and Finnish, the better to be able to sing along with their favorite Nordic metal bands: &#8220;It&#8217;s quite a well-known phenomenon that students in Italy study Norwegian because they&#8217;re interested in metal,&#8221; Ms. [Siri] Nergaard [,a teacher,] said. Irene Burdese, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[75],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}