''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
The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (), commonly known by its initialism NRK, is a Norwegian state-run, government-influenced radio and television public broadcasting company.
The NRK broadcasts three national TV channels and thirteen nat ...
. Three seasons of the program were produced (2004, 2005, and 2006). The concept is inspired by the Swedish SVT-produced series ''
Värsta språket
''Värsta språket'' (Swedish: "The Worst Language" (figuratively "The coolest language")) was a Swedish television series about the Swedish language
Swedish ( ) is a North Germanic languages, North Germanic language from the Indo-European lan ...
Petter Schjerven
Petter Wilhelm Blichfeldt Schjerven (born 20 October 1967) is a Norwegian television host, known from ''Typisk norsk'' which aired on NRK, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. Schjerven has previously worked as the host and scriptwriter for t ...
is the host of ''Typisk norsk''. The program covers interesting topics in language and communication, among others. It also deals with language enthusiasts and researchers and discusses problems with the
Norwegian language
Norwegian ( ) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken mainly in Norway, where it is an official language. Along with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a dialect continuum of more or less mutually intelli ...
.
The first season had 453,000 viewers, the second season 553,000, and the third 622,000.
''Typisk norsk'' won the Gullruten Award in 2005 for ''Best Culture or Magazine Program'' and ''Best Male Host''. In 2006, the editors of the program received .
''Typisk norsk'' has covered, among other things:
* Word separation and
hyphenation
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*
Slang
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* How Norwegian sounds to immigrants
*
Dialect
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Swedish
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*
Old Norse
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* Where language ability comes from
* The guttural R sound
* The Norwegian method of counting
* Odd translations in films
Kjell
In 2005, ''Typisk norsks
Petter Schjerven
Petter Wilhelm Blichfeldt Schjerven (born 20 October 1967) is a Norwegian television host, known from ''Typisk norsk'' which aired on NRK, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. Schjerven has previously worked as the host and scriptwriter for t ...
presented the new letter ''kjell'' on the program, a letter to prevent the ''kj'' sound from being replaced by ''sj'' and disappearing from the language.
The letter ''kjell'' was proposed as a new
letter
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of the
Norwegian alphabet
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The ...
in 2005. It was a humorous proposal to promote the prescriptively correct pronunciation of the
voiceless palatal fricative
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(), which is written in standard orthography, and oppose the growing tendency to pronounce it as a
voiceless postalveolar fricative
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() or
voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant
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(), written or , as the first sound in the word ("shirt"; ).
The voiceless palatal fricative () is unstable in many Norwegian dialects and is disappearing from the speech of young people; younger speakers in
Bergen
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By May 20 ...
,
Stavanger
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and
Oslo
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even merge into the
voiceless retroflex sibilant
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.
The proposal for the new letter was created by design agency
SDG
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* SDG Group, a management consulting firm
* SDG Associates, an architectural firm in Detroit, Mich ...
and presented by Petter Schjerven in the television program . A similar
glyph
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had been used before for in the Norwegian phonetic transcription