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jtuck004

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Wed Oct 21, 2015, 07:46 PM Oct 2015

det var helt texas

Norwegians Are Literally Using 'Texas' As Slang for 'Crazy' Now
Texas' "wild west" reputation has gone global, and not in a good way.
By Janet Allon / AlterNet October 21, 2015



Texas is many things to many people—a state the size of a medium-sized country; home to several idiot governors, one who became president, and a current one who thinks it’s a good idea for college students to openly carry firearms. To Donald Trump, Texas is the place where a "big, beautiful wall" should be built. To people in Norway, “texas” with a small “t” is a synonym for crazy, bonkers, out of control and wild. As in, that’s totally texas. Or in Norwegian: det var helt texas

Texas Monthly discovered this hilarious (or humbling, depending on your perspective) piece of slang on a Tumblr page. The magazine accumulated several pieces of evidence that this is really a thing in Norway, and gave these examples:


Here is an article from Aviso Nordland from March 2014 about reckless international truck drivers traveling through the northern part of the country. Norwegian police chief Knut Danielsen, when describing the situation, tells the paper that “it is absolutely texas.”
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http://www.alternet.org/culture/norwegians-are-literally-using-texas-slang-crazy-now


Nice for the U.S. to get some recognition of our efforts...

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det var helt texas (Original Post) jtuck004 Oct 2015 OP
Well, we do practice ... ananda Oct 2015 #1
Gee...I wonder why they think that way? Rex Oct 2015 #2
Makes sense to me. smirkymonkey Oct 2015 #3
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