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[Zoran Cutura]

Hej,

Jeg desv?rre bliver n?dt til at blive hjemme endnu en dag.

Hej Martin,

although I've been to Sweden for a few times my swedish is not
good enough to answer or even understand you question.
This is an international newsgroup, where the language of choice
is English.

 

[Martin M. Pedersen]

Hej,

Jeg desværre bliver nødt til at blive hjemme endnu en dag.

mvh.
Martin

 

[Joona I Palaste]

Hej Martin,

although I've been to Sweden for a few times my swedish is not
good enough to answer or even understand you question.
This is an international newsgroup, where the language of choice
is English.

Hej Zoran,

Your Swedish skills are irrelevant here as Martin was speaking Danish
or Norwegian. What he said was: "Unfortunately I have to stay home
one more day". I don't think the message is related to C, or intended
to comp.lang.c at all.

 

[Thomas Stegen]

Hej Zoran,

Your Swedish skills are irrelevant here as Martin was speaking Danish
or Norwegian.

Danish, but if he can read swedish he can also read Danish and
Norwegian.

 

[Joona I Palaste]

Danish, but if he can read swedish he can also read Danish and
Norwegian.

I applaud your seemingly miraculous skills of distinguishing between
Danish and Norwegian. Are you a native speaker of either language,
living or employed in the UK, or something?

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[Dan Pop]

I applaud your seemingly miraculous skills of distinguishing between
Danish and Norwegian. Are you a native speaker of either language,
living or employed in the UK, or something?

Any *good* reason for not asking this question via private email?

Dan

 

[Thomas Stegen]

I applaud your seemingly miraculous skills of distinguishing between
Danish and Norwegian. Are you a native speaker of either language,
living or employed in the UK, or something?

Yep.

Oh, you wanted more detail. I am Norwegian, former student in
Scotland, now engineer in Scotland. (woohoo

 

[Mark McIntyre]

Thomas Stegen <[email protected]> scribbled the following:

I applaud your seemingly miraculous skills of distinguishing between
Danish and Norwegian. Are you a native speaker of either language,
living or employed in the UK, or something?

Thomas' email address implies he works for or at strathclyde university
computer dept. I seem to recall from past discussion he's German, but I can
distinguish italian from french, so I can't see why a german is disallowed
from telling danish from norwegian.

Anyway, at least nobody seems to be Swiss. Or Croatian...
=:-0

 

[Thomas Stegen]

Thomas' email address implies he works for or at strathclyde university
computer dept.

Student, now former.

I seem to recall from past discussion he's German, but I can

Hardly, Norwegian.

distinguish italian from french,

Italian and french are much further apart than Danish and Norwegian.
(And swedish for that matter). In some cases it is impossible
to decide whether it is Danish or Norwegian.

so I can't see why a german is disallowed
from telling danish from norwegian.

I can't see that either. But I would imagine my claim
to competence in that particular area outdoes that of most
germans though

 

[Dan Pop]

Hardly, Norwegian.


Italian and french are much further apart than Danish and Norwegian.

Indeed. It is trivial for any outsider to distinguish between them,
even without being able to understand any of them.

(And swedish for that matter). In some cases it is impossible
to decide whether it is Danish or Norwegian.

Written Swedish should be easier, due to the missing ø letter from the
alphabet.

Back in my CERN days, I had a Norwegian boss and a Danish colleague.
I often saw them discussing, in some strange language and I finally
asked my boss what was the common language they used. The answer was:
"well, I talk Norwegian and Jes talks Danish".

I can't see that either. But I would imagine my claim
to competence in that particular area outdoes that of most
germans though

And I'd be *very* surprised if the average German could tell Danish from
Norwegian.

The Romance languages are all easy to tell from each other, Turkish, Greek
Hungarian and Finnish are easily identifiable and the difference
between German and Dutch is also fairly obvious. Scandinavian languages
can be easily recognised as a group, and so are Slavic languages used
in Central Europe, but it's rather tricky to make distinctions inside
each group, as an outsider. Well, maybe Polish is easier to identify than
the rest, due to its "impossible" words and fancy diacritics. And if it
doesn't fit anywhere above, it's probably a Baltic language ;-)

Of course, things get a lot more complicated if one considers more than
the official language of each European country...

Dan

 

[CBFalconer]

Indeed. It is trivial for any outsider to distinguish between them,
even without being able to understand any of them.


Written Swedish should be easier, due to the missing ø letter from
the alphabet.

Back in my CERN days, I had a Norwegian boss and a Danish colleague.
I often saw them discussing, in some strange language and I finally
asked my boss what was the common language they used. The answer
was: "well, I talk Norwegian and Jes talks Danish".

Back <mumble> years ago, when Swedes still drove on the left, I
was told that Scandinavian entertainers generally used a common
language known as Scandinave.

 

[Dik T. Winter]

> Dan Pop wrote: ....
>
> Back <mumble> years ago, when Swedes still drove on the left, I
> was told that Scandinavian entertainers generally used a common
> language known as Scandinave.

<mumble> >= 37. Now if you had talked about Austria it would have
been impressive (1939).