93 points by donjoe 3 days ago | 11 comments
- The interesting thing about “Algvandringen” is that you can hear “Elk wandering” in it, showing the evolutionary similarities of two Germanic languages.
- Älg and Elk are really quite similar words. Ä and E are very close in swedish.
- And 120 years ago Älg would have been written Elg [1].
[1] https://8sidor.se/kronika/2026/04/spraket-blev-lite-lattare/
- Elk meant moose until English speakers came to north America and started calling wapitis for elk. A lot of animals in areas that was colonized are named like that.
- Norwegian public service pioneered slow tv
Other programs
https://tv.nrk.no/serie/hurtigruten-minutt-for-minutt
- I can't help but feel they may have missed the bulk of them.
It's been a very early spring this year, we've been seeing weather that's probably 4-6 weeks ahead of the normal curve since March.
- Oof. That's concerning.
- This is pretty huge in Sweden. Slow TV at its finest :)
- This triggered a freeze with subsequent shutdown of my Lenovo X1 running Ubuntu.
- There's a counter on the screen (I see it at 34) for the number of moose having been seen to cross the river this season.
- Swedish tradition to watch in the background