Hej Olaf and everyone,

It's been quite awhile since most parts of Andeby Online were... online! In the meantime I've quite missed everyone's reviews of Donald Duck & Co. and the Donald Pocket— in part because, as a writer and parttime editor, I'd like to know what readers think of the stories.
Has someone been writing up the omtalar and saving them for when Andeby Online reappears in full? Or are the new Donlad omtalar accessible right now, at another website that I happen to have missed?

I hope these enjoyable issue reviews aren't gone for good.

Just relax

I have the latest Donald Pockets(285-288) and I'm saving the reviews until AO reappears.

Well... *blush*
We are supposed to be writing, but I... well, i haven't written. Yet. We are to post when the site is up and running in complete again - but in my personal case I have to write. But i guess i can live with that. But, as HMS says, just relax. The reviews will come.

Do you read norwegian, Gerstein? Or do you get someone to translate for you?

Hva' så... Norwegian is etymologically close enough to Danish (which I do know, kinda) that I'm able to read and understand it fairly well.
Although, hmm... if you gave me a text that wasn't about comics, I might have trouble!

I know that's becouse you are locking at the picktures to realise what the meaning aboute the story realy are.

You are jusing the pictures to read, for me it's ok, but that is not the meaning with all the pictures. The pictures are there to make the story more funny, for eksampel, there ekspressions in there faces. In matter of fact, Danish is pritty hard to understand for many people... but to read it is diferent, now you have shown that you are incompetently.

Nice nynorsk, David. :-)

Sorry, this has taken more time than expected - but please believe me when I'm saying I do my very best to get the necessary scripts finished as soon as possible.

If everything has worked according to the plan, people should have been writing up the reviews and saving them for the future. They're not accessible on another website, no.

And I promise you from the bottom of my heart that they're not gone for good. We just had to remove that part of the site until we had fixed some bugs, and ... that took longer time than expected.

I'm working on this right now, and will do so for at least all night. So we're on the right track. I hope.

David Gerstein skreiv:

Due to this - I will guess that David prefer Bokmål before Nynorsk due to its closeness to Danish.

Sigvald skreiv:

And I guess we would have actually thought about that if we were making this page for Danes and editors working in Denmark. But we're not. It's just a positive side effect that they actually can take advantage of this page, too.

(by the way - I've spoken to David about these pages lots and lots of times, and he's never complained about the language. I assume that if David feels there's something wrong about the language on these pages, he would tell me straight to my "face" instead of hinting to Sigvald about it.)

Sigvald, my friend, will you please stop this *political* question? If a dane can read bokmål and not nynorsk it's a question of ignorance and stupidity, not language.

AC skreiv:

Our friend David is an American NOT a Dane. I won't blame him if he doesn't understand Nynorsk as well as you.

Sigvald skreiv:

Well, but David has never complained over not understanding Nynorsk, has he?

David has written in this post that he has no problem understanding Norwegian (cough, as long as it's comics related). Then why doubt that? Why say "I think that David is too stupid to understand Nynorsk, despite him claiming the opposite" (I know that wasn't your wording, Sigvald, but it's the logical way to read it) - and at the same time call him a friend? I know I wouldn't say such things about _my_ friends.

Can we just drop that discussion? I'm getting used to people complaining that this page is in Nynorsk - but as David has never complained about that, it's silly to have a long discussion about that someone in here feels he should have a perfect reason to complain. He doesn't mind! (or, if he does, that's for him to decide and not for Sigvald!)

Dette beviser vel bare at Sigvald ikke har noen intensjon om å la denne diskusjonen ligge.

Hadde vi ikke en poll på temaet en gang?

Olaf SolstrAnd skreiv:

No, not that I know about at least. All I did was coming up with a guess about his preferense in this matter. It was NEVER my intention to start any argue about this subject. If I had had any such intentions I would certainly have included some conclusions with my fist comment in this thread.

It's not stupid for non-Scandinavians not to understand Nynorsk as it is not stupid for non-Scandinavians not to understand Bokmål, Danish or Swedish.

Sure, this was no argue I wanted in the first place.

Lars Olav skreiv:

Dette viser vel kanskje at du er litt mer opptatt av andre enn av å bidra med egne kommentarer. Kan ikke huske at du har engasjert deg særlig mye i diskusjonene i etterkant av Raptus-festivalen.

Nei, bare en lang tråd av variablelt nivå hvor mange kom med sine meninger. Noen offisiell måling fant dog ikke sted.

Sigvald skreiv:

Det er ikke lett og debatere en festival jeg ikke var på. Det regner jeg med at du har forståelse for. Men jeg har da ikke forholdt meg taus, jeg har flere komentarer og spørsmål i enkelte tråder (selv om flere av spørsmålene mine har stått ubesvart).

Men som vanelig svarer du overhode ikke på det du blir spurt om men rett og slett retter skytsen mot meg på veldig sviktende grunnlag. Hvis du ønsker og bli tatt seriøst (og det vet jeg at du ønsker) så bør du ihvertall kunne svare på ting istedenfor bare å finne på slike påstander som du gjorde her.

Nei, bare en lang tråd av variablelt nivå hvor mange kom med sine meninger. Noen offisiell måling fant dog ikke sted. }}

Er du helt sikker på dette. Jeg er temmelig sikker på at det var en avstemming for dette. Olaf, husker du noe av dette?

Lars Olav skreiv:

Nei, dessverre.

Da burde det være noe av det første vi gjorde ;)

Re: the big question of whether I'd prefer Nynorsk or Bogmål—
I'm not really GOOD with ANY Norwegian dialect, so one isn't much harder than the other for me! If I carefully compared the two, I might notice that one was a little more like Danish, and thus marginally easier to understand... but as of right now, I hadn't given the matter any thought.

Anyway, the decision of Andeby Online's chosen dialect isn't a decision that should be taken with respect to my wishes, anyway, as I'm not a native speaker at all. To make it easiest for ME, it ought to be in English. But doesn't that defeat the purpose of having a Norwegian forum? I say... yes! (-:

Olaf: you guessed correctly; if I ever had a problem with the forum, I'd of course have come to you.
Sigvald: Sorry, man, but please don't try to guess at what my opinions might be. If you'd like to know, just ask me directly! If there's going to be a controversy, I'd rather it be about my ACTUAL opinions.

Oh, and I DO have controversial opinions!
— Non-Italian Mickey Mouse stories from 1950s-1980s are overrated due to nostalgia: even when the plots are good, the characterization of Mickey is boring
— Klodrik is a great character when used right
— Same goes for José Carioca
— Same goes for Hekla Heks
— Jesper Skaugen reminds me of someone I'm not going to vote for on 2 November

Oops, I'm even too controversial for myself!

In my comment about non-Italian 1950s-1980s Mickey stories, I generalized a little TOO much. Of course a few stories DID make Mickey interesting— it's just that they were the exception, not the rule.
(And I didn't mean to say ALL Italian stories get Mickey right, either.)