I’ve finally taken my language-related snobbishness out into the open, primarily because the local newspaper recently titled me as “gaid” — a horrendous norwegianification of the English word “guide”, and an unnecessary one too, as we have the perfectly servicable synonym “omviser”.

So, it might be that the Norwegian Council of Language has given the go-ahead for the use of this ridiculous semiotic abomination, like it’s already done for the right-out ugly “sørvis” (a norwegianification of “service”, of course). And it might also be that I normally don’t give a flying fuck how people write, so long as they make themselves understood (semantics over semiotics, in other words). But in this case I was personally involved, and I don’t like being refered to as a “gaid”. Irrational, perhaps, but I’ve never claimed to be otherwise.

Also, Romsdals Budstikke used to be a conservative newspaper. It’s sad, really, to see how the mighty have fallen… :|