Re: Why a creole is handy in Germania

Torsten writes:
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This means that with the wide-spread use of English (and the
consequent(?) reduced knowledge of their own language) people will
resort to using English when communicating with other Scandinavians.
Knowing and understanding the other Scandinavian languages is
considered nerdy.
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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!

Do you remember the novel _Buddenbrooks_, where the old man of the
family had almost switched from Low German to French, and the whole
family with him?

French almost won, but Napoleon defeated it.