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- "Hun leker med alle barna unn…
"Hun leker med alle barna unntatt gutten."
Translation:She is playing with all the children except the boy.
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People in Norway are known for being really kind, so someone playing with all the kids except for one boy isn't super kind.
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I thought people in Norway were known for not being very social and it was very Norwegian of her
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Not social? Cool and distant when they don't know you, but very warm and open when they do.
You just have to get past that first part.
I suppose people in Norway are like people in other countries. Some are nice, some are not.
He's just a poor boy from a poor family and she is sparing his life from this monstrosity
Read the tips in the beginning of the lesson! One is "except" and the other is "without".
I don't know how lordoftherabbits is studying, but I do know that on the app (at least the Android version), the tips at the beginning of the lesson are nowhere to be found. It really sucks when you're doing your best and asking questions and people are yelling at you to read the tips that I personally didn't even know existed at first. Give people a little leeway is all I'm saying. Some of them are probably just neglecting the tips, but I'm sure many of them just can't get to a computer on a given day and have to make do with the app, as is so often the case with me.
You're right, I didn't take the app into consideration. They should add the tip there too. I wasn't "yelling" though, mine was a genuine and calm suggestion: it's just the usual problem with chat and the lack of emotions in written language. :-)
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The tips are also on the mobile version of the website, for some stupid reason only the app doesn't have them
Friendly reminder that, even if you are on the app, you can still see the tips on your device's browser. So it's not like people who use the app on their cell phones or tablets are unable to see the tips: they can see them through the browser.
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I wish there were tips at the beginning of each lesson in the app version. Unfortunately, there are not.
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They're not in the norwegian part. If you switch to other languages, some of them have it. For instance, learning spanish as an english speaker has them. It should be added to all languages, though (it's not so difficult to implement, as it's already there somewhere)
Am I over sensitive or is there a slight streak of misanthropy in several of these sentences?
I typed in "other than the boy" instead of "except" just because of common English use... I don't think it's strictly incorrect, maybe it's worth adding?
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Maybe they can't add all the possibilities. I would more naturally say 'except for the boy"
This is the first time I've been penalised for writing 'the boy' instead of 'the lad' lad'. I didn't see this colloquialism discussed in the lesson....
You were probably penalised for something else, sometimes the app underlines the wrong word.
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And sometimes it marks you wrong, when you got everything right.
Problem with the machinery can happen to any of us.
Or he doesn't want to play...
I often don't want to be around my "friends".
Who knows, maybe the boy needs some space; it's one of those days, and she gets it.
