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catullus
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Norway
Jan 1970
time: 06:24
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Scandinavia has more language differences within each language than between the main dialects of each. IMHO, of course. Most people coming from other parts than the capital are used to talk capital-ish ("official" language) when talking to people from other regions. I remember as a kid that my cousins often couldn't understand me, although they live only 600km from my home place. So I had to try to speak "TV language".
Oslo Norwegian is usually well understood by both Swedes and Danish, and Norwegians understand both the other languages, especially if spoken slowly.
I've been on some Nordic IT-security meetings, and all speak their own language. Sometimes, if you know the words are very different in the languages, you try to repeat it, translated. Like if I speak about security threats, I would use, at least the first time, both the word "trussel" and "hot".
The Finns speak their own funny version of English unless they try (and fail miserably) to speak Swedish. Best practice for Finns: Shut up.
Icelanders most often speak what they call "Skandinaviska", which is a mix between Swedish and Danish, very often quite easy to understand for all parts.
At the pub, we still speak own language, except the Finns, who are now too drunk to say anything, and the Icelanders, who turn to English.
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Wilderess
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Finland
Jul 2001
time: 07:24
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The reason for my asking this is quite serious, believe it or not.
Finland is a bilingual country. This derives from Sweden’s rule over Finland for many centuries until 1809: Swedish was the language of the rulers and of the upper class in Finland. We still have a small minority of Swedish-speaking people here, as well as a handful of Samish-speaking ("Lappish"?) aboriginals in Lapland.
According to the rules and regulations, every Finnish child must learn Swedish at school. Since there is only a limited amount of hours in the day and school day in particular, and there is a strong need to study also other languages, this has been something of a problem. The majority of Finns never really need Swedish in their later lives. Practically all Swedish-speaking people in Finland are really bilingual and speak Finnish as well as Swedish.
There’s a severe quarrel going on between those who think that Swedish should be studied voluntarily at school, and those who think that, for ”historical reasons”, Swedish must be learned by every single Finnish child.
I’m for free choice of languages at school, but I also see the importance of the Northern dimension in Europe. If all the other Nordic people communicate using their own language each, and must change into English when a Finn joins the group, it must be a drawback for us Finns.
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zapnic
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jep
if you get really drunk no matter what language
you are speaking
you get really fine with everbody
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