Re: [tied] Swedish dialect dictionary

I was saddened when I first realised this but now I´m really angry. But
this history loss has been going on for a century now. There have even
been cutbacks on history and language lessons in swedish schools. When
I went to school we had what they called ´common language knowledge´ as
a subject for two years. Practically it meant a brief look at latin and
a teeny look at indoeuropean studies. If it hadn´t been for my genuine
interest in speech studies I would have been very disillusioned by this.

This history loss actually started after WW2 when the consensus was
that "we need to root out everything that was related to the nazis".
But when they sweeped out that they sweeped away everything else too.
There haven´t been a real breakthrough in swedish linguistics for ages
now, at least not in the etymology department.

Carl Hult


fredagen den 8 juli 2005 kl 11.09 skrev tgpedersen:

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> The project of publishing a Swedish dialect dictionary which has been
> going on for 50 years now has been abandoned after the Swedish
> government refused to continue funding it. This might have been an
> isolated case; unfortunately there emerges a pattern: the national
> antiquities department has been moved away from Stockholm to the
> island of Gotland; the Historiska museet has closed its exhibition of
> finds of the migration period ('Who wants to compare one arrowhead
> with another arrowhead'?, the director said on national TV), instead
> they have created a position for a modern arts consultant and
> periodically stage contemporary art exhibitions, the installation of
> one of which riled the Israeli ambassador. One gets the suspicion
> there are plans afoot to abolish parts of Swedish history, given the
> stated policy of downplaying the Swedishness of Sweden.
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> Torsten
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