Typisk norsk
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Typisk norsk is a news and magazine program about language and communication produced by Dropout Productions (seasons 1 and 2) and Rubicon TV (season 3) for NRK. Three seasons of the program have been produced (2004, 2005, and 2006). The concept is inspired by the SVT
Sveriges Television
Sveriges Television AB , Sweden's Television, is a national television broadcaster based in Sweden, funded by a compulsory fee to be paid by all television owners...

-produced series Värsta språket
Värsta språket
Värsta språket was a Swedish television series about the Swedish language. The series, which was hosted by Fredrik Lindström and produced by Karin af Klintberg, was broadcast on SVT during 2002 and 2003...

 (The Worst Language) with Fredrik Lindström
Fredrik Lindström
Fredrik Lindström is a Swedish linguist, comedian, film director and presenter.In the 2000s, Lindström has become a household name in Sweden through his documentary series Värsta språket about the Swedish language on Sveriges Television...

 as the host.

Petter Schjerven
Petter Schjerven
Petter Wilhelm Blichfeldt Schjerven is a Norwegian television host, known from Typisk norsk which airs on the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. Schjerven has previously worked as the host and scriptwriter for "Midt i smørøyet" and as the producer of the radio program "Holger Nielsens metode" on...

 is the host of Typisk norsk. Among other things, the program covers interesting topics in language and communication. It also deals with language enthusiasts and researchers and discusses problems with the Norwegian language
Norwegian language
Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...

.

Typisk norsk won the Gullrute award in 2005 for Best culture or magazine program and Best male host. In 2006, the editors of the program received Den Store Journalistprisen.

Typisk norsk has covered, among other things:
  • Word separation and hyphenation
  • Slang
  • How Norwegian sounds to immigrants
  • Dialects
  • Norwegian in comparison to Danish and Swedish
  • Old Norse
  • Where language ability comes from
  • Rolled Rs
  • The Norwegian method of counting
  • Notable translations


In 2005, Schjerven presented the new letter "Kjell" on his program, a letter to prevent the kj sound from being replaced by sj and disappearing from the language.

External links

Typisk norsk's official page (with episodes on Nett-TV)
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