Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered" channel.

  1. +Big Blue "It's our language" not anymore. "and we'll speak it as we choose" true, but that applies to all english speakers, native or not. Language is the ultimate form of direct democracy. And the people of England proper are a minority of those speakers and therefore also no longer in charge of how the language evolves. Also, quite frankly, plenty of brits and americans have commented on how some of us non-native speakers (in my case Norwegian, but also the Swedes) actually having better english then the natives both in written and spoken form...
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  2. What happend in 1935? Was she scrapped?
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  3. Our biggest losses where still at sea though as our merchant fleet where vital in the allied supply network, especially in the early war. Norway supplied at least a third of the fuel used by the UK during the early parts of the war. As well as lots of food and other resources. Norway was the fourth biggest shipping nation in the world at the beginning of the war, and while the merchant fleet was smaller then the British it was on average newet and more modern. So while only something like 4% of the worlds tonnage was on Norwegian hands, over sixty percent of the diesel powered ships where, while most other merchant ships needed coal for better and worse. We also had way more oil tankers as a percentage of our merchant fleet then most nations, so we where vital in supplying the UK. And that fleet was also vital in funding our government in exile. About 3 670 Norwegian sailors lost their lives serving in the Norwegian merchant fleet during the war... Out of a population of about 3 000 000 in total where about 30 000 where sailors... We also lost about a thousand sailors of foreign nationality on our ships...
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  4.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  Thanks. Do you know who bought her?
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  5. + @TheHistoryGuyChannel  Thank you, pity that we'll never know her fate. :-/
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  6. 6:10 Not only where they a quarter of the population. There where points in time where the US troops outnumbered the local adult male population.
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  7.  @Erin-Thor  Did you already play the game? My understanding is that the code is only for new players, although I could be wrong about that.
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  8. +nowthenzen Sorry? Oo
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  9. +Robert Pruitt What exactly is incorrect? The differences between british english and american english isn't evidence of english being controlled by or owned by britains. The language isn't governed by how the local evolution is progressing. If version of english used in britain changed then english would still be governed by international consensus and not by british use of the language. It's true that many people learning the language starts with either american or british english or both in school. But those alone don't define the language anymore for most of the languages learners. I suggest that you read this wikipedia article, I think you'll find it interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_English I'd also like to add that international use of the language has quite a influence on language speakers within the countries who use the language as a first language too. Especially when it comes to vocabulary.
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  10. There's another channel covering the history of jews in Scandinavia that you might find interesting. I don't remember the name right now, but I can fig it out of my ligs if you're interested.
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