Talk:Storting

message: I replaced the copyrighted picture in the article with one I have taken myself. My picture can be freely reprodused.
The previous picture was: Norway-stortinget.jpg
Kristian hv 23:41, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: I don't think the phrase "The Storting" is correctly translated.
In English we say, "Congress voted today." This has the exact same meaning as "Stortinget voted today" in Norwegian. The convention in English happens to be that we leave off the definite article "the" when we talk about Congress. But in Norwegian, they leave it on. That doesn't mean it should be translated "The Storting" though. "Bestempt form" doesn't automatically mean it should be translated with a "the" in front of it. There are times when a direct translation (den bilen, for example) would result in things like "the the car."
So, my suggestion is to refer to Stortinget instead of "The Storting." Please, could we get a native Norwegian speaker to comment?--Kennethmaage 23:21, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree for two reasons. First, the usages "Congress" and "the Congress" coexist in US English. Second, it is my conviction (as a fluent non-native speaker of Swedish, which of course presents similar problems) that the definite article should be translated where it is present, unless this would result in ungrammatical English. --Tkynerd 03:32, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the article should be named Stortinget. I believe it is not uncommon that Norwegian definite singular nouns have a "the" added in front of them when conveyed in English, i.e. "The Stortinget". Even though this would literally be equivalent to "The the Storting", I don't think this is an applicable way of addressing this minor idiosyncracy. I do, however, notice that all other language Wikipedias use the Storting variant. And I'm a native Norwegian speaker. __meco 11:58, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: To append myself. I notice that the article on the Swedish parliament, Riksdagen, is called Parliament of Sweden. We also have Parliament of Finland, but Folketing for the Danish Folketinget. __meco 21:27, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

text: A bit late on this, but English also frequently puts the definite article on foreign loanwords in this manner, so the analogy to Congress (an Anglosphere institution) isn't quite right. Compare the Knesset, the Bundestag, etc. --Delirium (talk) 09:24, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stortinget vs. The Storting 

message: I have just reverted an IP's removal of the information that the architect of the Storting building was Swedish. Before doing so, I did a Google search for the architect's name and found that both no.wikipedia.org and nn.wikipedia.org describe him as Swedish. It is standard Wikipedia practice to include the nationality of people in this fashion, particularly when their nationality is not what you would otherwise expect. --Tkynerd 16:36, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reverted removal of "Swedish" 

message: Do we need a redirect, until someone writes an article about Stortingets spørretime.--85.165.229.54 (talk) 11:20, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: ''Stortingets spørretime ''; redirect

message: I have never heard the term Question time from independent English-language sources. 
Any mention of the term without notable and independent references, might easily be removed from the article.
(It sounds like a quick translation (of spørretime) from some any of a number of former Norwegian MP, who had practically no schooling in English. (German was arguably a more important language in Norway (than English), more than 100 years ago, when a number of workers/farmers/teachers worked their way up to become an MP.)--85.165.229.54 (talk) 11:34, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Question time

message: Has it ever had two chambers or more? The former Lagting and Odelsting are at present portrayed as Chambers of parliament. --Cookwald (talk) 05:06, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lagting and Odelsting as "chambers" 

message: Apparently this needs to be clarified to some. Norway operates on a system of negative parliamentarism. There is no investiture vote, and as such there are few mechanisms to determine which parties are "supporting" parties, and which ones are "opposition" parties. The only way for a formal confidence and supply agreement to take place in Norway is therefore by a formal, binding agreement between the parties. The Progress Party points to a continued Solberg government, but their official policy is that they do not support a government that they are not a member of by confidence and supply, as explained here, here, and here. The fact that the Progress Party is not removing Solberg from power means nothing as long as Norway employs negative parliamentarism. If FrP does not have a formal cooperation agreement with the government, and is not a member of it, it is an opposition party. It simply tolerates the Solberg government, to the same degree that the other opposition parties tolerate it. Minority governments are the historical norm in Norway for this reason. Siv Jensen is quoted as saying this: "Vi vil ikke lenger anse oss bundet av Granavold-plattformen" ("We no longer consider ourselves bound by the Granavold [government] platform"), source here. Another revert must be seen as no less than vandalism. Whoever reverted my edit clearly has a poor understanding of how Norwegian politics traditionally operates. Μαρκος Δ 03:09, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: While I am going to excuse my all-caps with genuinely just wanting you to read it before reverting I apologize for the harsh tone. And yes, I should have sourced it immediately, you are right. That being said, I am glad we could resolve this. Μαρκος Δ 03:49, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Progress Party is now in opposition 

message: Thanks  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.163.154.8 (talk) 20:00, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Any translation for ''som fanden leser Bibelen'' in the code of conduct section? 

message: The Code of Conduct section is straight trash. It basically just needs to be removed because it barely makes any sense. That's my two scents 02:14, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Code of Conduct section