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Comments

[making_excuses]

I actually enjoy his accent, I find it oddly soothing...

Which is weird because no offence every Danish person ever, but your language is not exactly the most soothing thing on the planet, nor can I understand anything you say (except when it is TV Danish, TV Danish is just as easy to understand as TV Swedish)... Then again at least you know how to write, which the Swedes really do not...

This comment is brought to you by a frustrated Norwegian whom have spent most of her Summer holidays in Denmark not understanding a word they say, and who is forced to read Danish and Swedish text for school, because they are too lazy to translate them into Norwegian...

[danish_anon]

We have to read Norwegian and Swedish texts in school too ;) (Actually, I kinda wish we were taught to speak Norwegian and Swedish, it would probably make it easier since there's this assumption we'll all just understand each other, which does not always work out so well).

[making_excuses]

It sucks doesn't it? Oh is it easier for you to read Norwegian or Swedish?

The assumption that we understand each other is so wrong, I can barely understand Swedish or Danish when it is on television... That might be a character flaw on my part though, but I do know my accent (or the one I am supposed to have, but because of various reasons barely do) is close to impossible to understand for Danes and Swedes, heck even for a lot of Norwegians it can be hard to understand...

[danish_anon]

Norwegian, definitely. Even if there are words I don't understand, much of the vocabulary and grammar is similar enough to Danish that I usually get at least most of the context.

If it's a character flaw, it's one I share! The worst is when it shows up in news reports or movies or such without warning - I remember watching a movie once where a Swedish character suddenly popped up, and everyone apparently had no problems at all communicating. It might be slightly regional, though - it was set in Copenhagen, where I wouldn't be surprised if a larger portion of people simply come into contact with Norwegian and especially Swedish more often due to proximity, compared to here at the other end of the country (I honestly can't remember ever having a RL conversation with a Norwegian or a Swede, I'm basing everything on TV and writing).

[making_excuses]

That is because you forced your way of writing upon us and we just keept writing the same way when you let us go... Also when we where under you guys we could only go to University in Denmark so all our rich people wrote and understood Danish the habit stuck.

Thank God I am not alone! Have I mentioned I've actually lived in Sweden?* and I am in Sweden at least once a year oh and I dated a Swede for about 4 years... And I can't for the life of me follow an conversation in Swedish! My ex and I spoke in English to each other... (For me it is easier to read Danish and understand spoken Swedish, but that is mostly because the Swedes lack the "potato in their throat" thing that you Danes got going on.) If we all just concentrate on speaking slowly and pronouncing our words we can understand each other, it is just when we mix into accents and the fact that most of us are pretty fast speakers we run into trouble!

Ohh now I want to speak to you to see if you understand me! I can't believe you have never met a Swede or a Norwegian person! Then again I guess you guys mostly go to Germany and so on for holidays not Norway and Sweden.

*When I was really young, not for that long, but my uncle was the manager thingy at an hotel in Sweden and I lived with him and my grandparents for like a year...

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I once watched a conversation happen between a Norwegian and a Finnish person in a chatroom. Apparently they could understand each other, but maybe that only applies on a text level and now so much on a spoken level.

[danish_anon]

That sounds right, at least for me personally!

[making_excuses]

If it is text there is no problem, but especially Norwegians speak in a way that does not even close to resemble the way we write (We write in a Norwegianized version of Danish), and all our countries have quite a few different accents and so on, so in writing there is not that big of an issue getting the gist of something, when one starts to speak it is a whole different story. English is actually easier to get the written to spoken word connection than Norwegian (at least for me)...

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Thanks for explaining. ^_^

Actually it reminds me of what I've heard about China - there's a lot of different dialects in China, but they all share the same basic written language.