Fargo

[hankhank at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu]

On Tue, 26 Nov 1996 LBernier at tribune.com wrote:
> J. writes re: Fargo
>      And the scene where the lady police-woman/detective (it's been months 
>      since the film came to my part of the country, I can't recall her 
>      name anymore, doh) meets her old Japanese friend in the bar and he 
>      breaks down: ought one laugh, or feel pity? 
 This scene is particularly funny if you understand the mindset of your typical 
> Minnesotan of Scandinavian descent.  As ANY unseemly display of emotion is 
> verboten, 
  ^^^^^^^^
                                  To authenticate this a bit, it's
  fo"rbjuden in Swedish, and even though my Norwegian is quite bad, 
  forbuden   in Norwegian (as well as in Danish, who I think there
             are more here in Texas than in Minnesota, though.)

But it is true that all three forms of forbidden (this last one included)
are Germanic, unlike "kielletty" in the Fenno-Ugric Finnish, the former
language of that vile white trash of cold backwoods among Minnesota
Scandinavians. Among whom any unseemly (sober) display of emotion is also
more or less *defendu*. Nowhere more in Finland than in the western part
of the Oulu Province. (You folks wouldn't *really* like to meet me one-to-one!)

Anyway, haven't seen "Fargo", either. Will asap. Hopefully rotfl.

Heikki