LL-L "Language varieties" 2004.09.18 (05) [E]

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From: Críostóir Ó Ciardha <paada_please at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2004.09.18 (03) [E]


John Feather wrote:
"The lowest figure found for these three languages was 23 for Swedes'
understanding of Danish. Other experiments involving just asking people if
they can understand another language "well" have produced results in the
range 40-70% with Swedish..."

I have a Norwegian friend (from Tromso) who tells me that a lot of
Norwegians understand Swedish and Danish fairly well (I have witnessed him
talking to a Swede in Norwegian and the Swede replying in Swedish - the
conversation was a lengthy one). However, it is rare that a Norwegian would
try to speak Swedish (or vice versa).

Apparently to do so would be funny (peculiar), in much the same way I sense
most Scots would be suspicious of an Englishman speaking to them in Scots as
"taking the mickey".

Go raibh maith agat,

Criostóir.

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