Reply #65: modest [View All]

> "What do you mean by "patos"? Is it possible you mean pathos?"

Yes, but no. It didn´t mean what I thought it meant. Guess what I meant was something like "empassionately" (?) / "with emotion".

Just thought I´d add, that I don´t want to give the impression that Norwegians are really humble/modest.

Compared to Sweedes, or Danes, Norwegians are really preoccupied with everything Norwegian. Sweedish and Danish media are not hardly as preoccupied with stuff related to their own nation as the Norwegian media is. So we are pretty conceit.

But even so, the closest we have come to a "Norway rule the waves" was during the Winter Olympics held in Norway in 1994. It was a great success, and the Norwegian prime minister stated something like: "It is typical Norwegian to be good."
The sentence is ridiculous also in Norwegian, and it became a standing joke. ( Still standing. )