"...mixing nynorsk with swedish! This is quite normal actually, and
most people are dead sure what they have written is nynorsk until the
teacher shows them otherwise."
Personally, even though I am from Sweden, I feel that Nynorska is by
far more comprehensible than Bokmål. Especially more archaic Nynorska
(like Ivar Aasens normal, i.e Högnorska) feels comfortable to read.
Evidently, there are many important features of Nynorska and Swedish
which these languages share, but which Swedish and Bokmål don't. Like
the weak feminine plural '-o(r)-', where Bokmål has '-er-' (like
Danish, I think). And where Nynorska and Swedish differ, I often
employ my own dialect to make Nynorska comprehensible. Example: The
Nynorska pronouns 'de' (=you, plural) and 'me' (=we) which are 'ni'
and 'vi', respectively, in Swedish. My dialect has 'da'/'dä'
and 'ma'/'mä', respectively. Another example: Nynorska 'gaupa'
(=lynx) which is 'lo(djur)' in Swedish, but 'göupa'/'gö´öup' in
Jamtlandic.
Skål ta mej faan!
/Jens
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norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "Terje Ellefsen"
<radiorabia@...> wrote:
> A little note on swedish/norwegian relations:
> I guess you all know we have two norwegian languages: nynorsk and
bokmål.
> People have been fighting over these languages ever since the
1800s, and
> even though they are supposed to be equal, schools in Oslo aren't
required
> to teach nynorsk. (Oslo houses the greatest resistance against
nynorsk,
> since the ruling class traditionally lived there, and wrote
> danish.)Everywhere else, we learn both bokmål and nynorsk, and we
are
> allowed to write either one of these, as well as using dialect.
Anyway,
> having introduced the situation, I must mention a problem norwegian
> schoolchildren (and students as well) are having: for some reason,
there's
> always someone who's mixing nynorsk with swedish! This is quite
normal
> actually, and most people are dead sure what they have written is
nynorsk
> until the teacher shows them otherwise. I don't know if this helped
anybody
> in any way, but I thought I had to mention it.
>