Norwegian Lesson
Bartley Trowbridge
Although both characters (Ola and Kari) use different greetings, there is no difference between male and female in Norwegian speech. Thus, the only difference between jeg heter ("name") and mitt navn er ("name") is that they look and sound different. Their meaning is exactly the same.
Notice that we can directly translate mitt navn er in English as "my name is," while with jeg heter, you would have to add a verb to make even remote sense of the phrase. In Norwegian, we do not often use "am (adjective)" like in English. Without delving too deeply into why it is different, instead do yourself a favor and think twice before translating any phrases such as "I am...," "you are...," and so on directly to Norwegian.
Norwegian is quite straightforward. There are seldom any pitfalls or complex mazes that prevent you from using the language skillfully. That said, Norwegians tend to take the shortest route possible to arrive at a point. Long sentences are therefore rarely found in spoken and, most often, written Norwegian as well. To accomplish this, Norwegian has certain words that make up meanings that would take English several words to express. A word like this is heter. In English, this would commonly translate to "being called." We mostly only use heter for referring to people's names, as in jeg heter ("my name is" or "I am called"). Yet, heter can also take on other meanings pretty similar to the way we use "to be called" in English. We shall look at these uses in another lesson in a more advanced series.
As you can see, Norwegians like short, concise sentences. Hyggelig is one of those words that go with every conversation, whether what is implied is "Nice to meet you," "Nice meeting you again," or "(It was) nice of you." The best part of it is that Hyggelig is no less formal than the long version of each phrase, making it an essential word in your dictionary. Norwegians use this all the time along with other practical words like takk ("thank you") and jepp ("yes"/"correct"). It is these words that will, in the end, prove most handy during your Norwegian studies.
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I have a friend trying to plan her first cruise. She wants to be able to take dance lessons on the cruise and then dress up for formal night and go dancing. Does Norwegian have these types of dance lessons on their cruises?
Thank you for answering. I know formal night isn't as formal as it used to be on some ships and I'm perfectly fine with that. But I think she just really has a desire to do this and I'm trying to help her figure out where it may be possible.
On the Breakaway, a dancer from the show, Burn the Floor will have 30 minute dance lessons in the atrium ranging from Salsa, to Rumba and other styles? You never get to perform it though. There was one day when they did have a dance rehearsal to learn the Thriller Dance and you could perform that at the 80s party they had later on that night.
The future arrival of the new offshore patrol cutters and polar security cutters foretells an excellent time to be a cutterman. Adding these ships to the fleet indicates a service committed to at-sea missions. However, buying ships is one issue. Recruiting, retaining, and rewarding the crews who operate them is quite another, especially considering an expected 25 percent increase in demand for afloat personnel.3 Luckily, proven solutions exist. The Coast Guard could learn from one of its allies.
The Norwegian Coast Guard (NCG) is considerably smaller than the U.S. Coast Guard and has fewer statutory missions; however, it also has no shortage of officers serving on board its ships. In fact, the NCG is sometimes challenged to fill billets ashore. This shipboard success is built on a different personnel management model.
The NCG also rotates personnel less frequently. Officer tours are commonly between three and five years, after which the officer will fleet up on the same ship or rotate to a different one. Over the course of a 25-year career, an officer can be assigned to a ship for roughly 20 years. The goal is to build competent, proficient, and professional operators.
The Norwegian military, including the NCG, allows personnel to live permanently anywhere in the country. Service members are entitled to a set amount of round-trip airfare for travel between their duty stations and homes. Finally, the NCG provides pay and incentives that average nearly twice what its shoreside counterparts receive.
There is no comparison, because the Norwegian Coast Guard is much smaller and has fewer missions. This is a matter of scope and scale. Comparison is possible between similar missions. For example, a dual-crewed NCG patrol boat can be at sea conducting law enforcement, fisheries protection, and search-and-rescue missions approximately 50 percent longer than a single-crewed U.S. Coast Guard patrol boat. In a boat-to-boat, mission-to-mission comparison, the NCG approach provides more value.
We tried the dual-crew structure and it did not work. This presumes the National Security Cutter Crew Rotation Concept (CRC) was actually implemented and lessons captured. However, the CRC never made it off the drawing board.5 Long-standing experience at Patrol Forces Southwest Asia indicates a relief crew concept can be successful. While not a dual-crew situation, the relief crew organizational structure should not be ignored when considering solutions for cutter crews.
It will cost too much. Crew rotation concepts can save money in the long run compared with the traditional one-crew, one-ship paradigm.The conundrum for the Coast Guard is finding the funding to make operational investments in the short term to achieve savings over the long term.
The cost argument also discounts the potential for the second- and third-order savings that can result from routine permanent stationing. Family stability in a chosen community can have an outsized impact on reducing overall costs to service members and the Coast Guard at large. This can be a complicated calculation, and it may prove difficult to predict such outcomes. However, difficulty should not preclude a serious investigation of both quantitative and qualitative data.
Lieutenant Commander Thornburg, a permanent cutterman, is commanding officer of the USCGC Elm (WLB-204). He is a Fulbright Scholar and earned his Ph.D. in industrial engineering from the University of Iowa.
It seems to me that most/all of the problems here were airline-related and not really NCL-related. HAving said that, maybe they could have been more supportive, but it seems like United/Lufthansa are the ones that messed up really bad.
Fortunately when I buy air through NCL (I'm in EU) I can see what flights they plan to put me on and can say yes or no. It's not as much discount as US BOGO, but still can be worth it on long/expensive routes.
Either way, once approaching flight date the airline is who I need to deal with, not NCL. (Like when Lufthansa had a strike cancelling my flight to South Africa earlier this year (day before flight departure or something like that). A stressful couple of hours before Lufthansa could put me on new flights with other airlines.)
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