From: Andrew Jarrette
Message: 41339
Date: 2005-10-13
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> There is also a factor similar to shibboleth to be considered:
>
> "troll" and "boll" is pronounced exactly the same in Sweden,
> whereas "trold" is pronounced /tro?l/ and "bold" /bold/ in Danish.
> Probably they were once exactly rhyming, but inappropriate
> associations with "bolle" ("futuere") has lead to the d in writing
> gaining also pronounced value as /d/.
> As a Swede coming to Denmark you have to be careful with expressions
> like "bolla med idéer" ("juggle with ideas").
>
Or "knäppa på TV:n" ("switch on the TV").
-- No wonder your Scandinavian societies are reputed to be so sexually advanced here in North America: your languages are full of nothing but sexual ideas! Perhaps you people have hit on the ultimate meaning of everything, even if it's by accidental unintended meanings of words (the sexual senses).
Andrew