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Peculiarities of English as spoken/written by Norwegians [closed]
I'm writing a fiction book. Some of its characters are Norwegians who exchange emails in English. I'd like to lightly stylise their texts.
What mistakes / peculiarities / word choice / sentence ...
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Are there languages with discontinued subordinate clauses?
As for the languages I know I think to believe, that a subordinated clause comes in a chunk and not scattered throughout the main clause.
For instance:
I LIKE TO SING, while i slave away
while I ...
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