Norwegian drama series.
In early 2000s Norway, 17-year-old Selina starts a beauty blog “Celina Isabelle,” sharing tips and promoting surgery. As her influence grows, she shifts from bullied teen to Norway’s top blogger and controversial icon.
Norwegians have and use a lot of names. When I lived there in the 90s, they referred to each other formally by all of their names. If they were Tor-Finn or Odd-Simen or Ann-Katrin, that’s exactly how people addressed them. It was “Good morning, Ann Katrin,” never just Ann, and definitely not Anni or Kat. Being a good Texan, I appreciated this, since our state was filled with Betty Sues, Billy Bobs and Joe Dons, so I Texified their monikers when I lived there. Ann Katrin became Annie Sue, for example, and Odd Simen became Odd Bob, which sounds like a Bond villain, but was a major upgrade in English, because his name is pronounced pretty much like “odd semen.”
(There are also Norwegians named Odd-Bent, which is pronounced more or less as it looks. Odd-Even is one that is funny on paper, but not when spoken.)
By the way, the young Norwegians loved these Texas names so much that they started to call each other by them, even when speaking Norwegian, although they would Nordify the sounds a bit when they spoke Norwegian, so Bob sounded like Bawb or almost rhymed with the old testament Job, depending on which part of Norway they came from. I taught them the proper Texas “bahb” pronunciation when they spoke English, and they drawled it out even more than I did. (Norwegians are great at English. If I coached them, almost all of them could speak a few sentences sounding completely American.)
The older Norwegians found all of this disrespectful and didn’t see the humor in it.
That said, Elli Rihannon Mueller Osborne is a lot of names, even by Norwegian standards. (And none of them sound very Norwegian.)
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