LL-L: "Etymology" LOWLANDS-L, 22.AUG.2000 (01) [E]

[R. F. Hahn]

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From: Kent Randau [kentr at tripnet.se]
Subject: LL-L: "Etymology" LOWLANDS-L, 21.AUG.2000 (01) [E]

At 10:58 -0700 2000-08-21, Lowlands-L wrote:
>
>From: Barry.Watson at uab.ericsson.se
>Subject: Danish-Swedish
>
>Kent wrote
>
>>Unfortunately the difference in pronunciation makes a lot of Swedes
>>consider Danish impossible to understand.
>
>I think alot of Swedes just don't want to try to understand Danish. I've
>seen Danes speaking on tv here (I'm a Scot living in Sweden) and I've
>understood a good portion of what they have said without resorting to
>the Swedish subtitles. Now why should a Swede have problems?

Well, I agree totally with you. But you excluded this part of my post:

At 00:25 +0200 2000-08-19, Kent Randau wrote:
>And although Danish and Swedish are more closely related
>linguistically, most Swedes consider Norwegian easier to understand
>(because of the pronunciation is more similar). I however think that
>understanding Danish is just a question of patience. If you
>concentrate on the similarities, not the differences, it is not at
>all that difficult.

/Kent

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From: R. F. Hahn [sassisch at yahoo.com]
Subject: Etymology

Dear Lowlanders,

If this line keeps refusing to return to the Lowlands, I'm afraid we will need
to terminate it and ask those who want to continue it to do so privately.

Thanks.

Reinhard/Ron

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