SV: [tied] Re: Why a creole is handy in Germania

--- In cybalist@..., Tegle Frølandshagen <g-tegle@...> wrote:

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> --- Mark Odegard ----
>
> Ah. The North-Germanic speakers don't really love their languages.
>
> We AmE speakers love funny Norsk accents. You all speak English so
> funnily nice. And just about all of you speak English. Aggh! Your
> languages are at risk!
>
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>
> This is absolutely wrong. Norwegians find Danish and Swedish

fascinating. I have heard of Norwegians who have

> fallen in love with Swedes only because of the way they speak. And

I must admit that I find Swedish a very beautiful language.

> A descriptive name for my own dialect would perhaps be Central

Scandinavian.

> So I find it easier to understand Danish than many Norwegian

dialects. But Swedish is no problem.

> I guess Torsten is right about the west/east division.
> But the strange thing is it that the communication between Swedes

and Danes seems not to be as well as their communication with
Norwegians.

>
> Do you agree Torsten?
>
>
> Håvard

Yes.
Swedish and Norwegian are similar phonetically and in being tonal
languages. Danish and Norwegian, for historical reasons, are similar
in vocabulary. Norwegian, that is Bokmål, is the middle ground in
Scandinavia. The Scandinavian airline SAS has chosen Bokmål
as "their" language.

Torsten