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Kurt Swanson <ksw@dna.lth.se> writes:

> are mutually intelligible to a very high degree.  The other day three
> Swedes, two Danes, a Norwegian and I had no trouble conversing around
> the coffee table.

I once met a Dane who claimed not being able to understand someone from
northern Danemark. I wonder if you spoke English around that table ? :)
How about German? Do scandinavians understand it without first learning it?

-- 
Nils Goesche
My obscure opinions are my very own.