From: joda@pdc.kth.se (Johan Danielsson)
Cc: Kurt Swanson <ksw@dna.lth.se>, ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Me, the businessperson
Date: 04 Feb 1998 18:42:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xofu3afxo4l.fsf@blubb.pdc.kth.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Nils Goesche's message of 04 Feb 1998 16:13:04 -0800
Nils Goesche <ngo@wossolit.teles.de> writes:
> I once met a Dane who claimed not being able to understand someone
> from northern Danemark.
Even if people speak the same language, they won't necessarily
understand each other. I have a hard time to understand some kinds of
Scanian (which is a southern province of Sweden, for all you
foreigners).
> How about German? Do scandinavians understand it without first
> learning it?
Not really. Many words has been imported from German, but that
happened many centuries ago, and both modern German and Swedish must
have drifted away from that. Supposedly, some [Swedish] dialects are
more similar to German, so that people can actually understand each
other.
However, until about 50 or so years ago, German was a quite `popular'
second language, and most people that did go to school studied it. You
figure out why that changed. :-) Based on personal experience, I would
guess that there's a 70/30 ratio between German/French as third
language.
Now, is this a theme for some mugs perhaps?
/Johan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-02-04 17:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-01-07 21:06 Me, the businessman Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-01-07 21:52 ` Niels Olof Bouvin
1998-01-07 22:41 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-01-07 22:49 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1998-01-07 23:02 ` William M. Perry
1998-01-07 22:45 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-01-08 8:46 ` Francois Felix Ingrand
1998-01-07 22:45 ` Wes Hardaker
1998-01-08 0:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-01-08 1:02 ` Per Abrahamsen
1998-01-08 8:16 ` Steinar Bang
1998-01-08 14:48 ` Per Abrahamsen
1998-01-08 1:23 ` Wes Hardaker
1998-01-08 9:23 ` Me, the businessperson Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-01-08 15:49 ` Neil Crellin
1998-01-08 16:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-01-08 20:01 ` Jan Vroonhof
1998-01-08 22:06 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-01-09 0:30 ` Wes Hardaker
1998-01-09 8:10 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-01-09 0:44 ` Wes Hardaker
1998-01-09 8:11 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-01-09 16:23 ` Wes Hardaker
1998-01-12 21:54 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-01-13 0:15 ` Wes Hardaker
1998-01-16 21:38 ` Stephen Zander
1998-01-11 1:44 ` Matt Simmons
1998-01-11 2:23 ` Paul Franklin
1998-01-12 7:17 ` Steinar Bang
1998-01-12 13:21 ` Per Abrahamsen
[not found] ` <6f90sl6cr5.fsf@bavur.dna.lth.se>
1998-01-12 14:03 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-01-13 15:59 ` Jes Sorensen
1998-01-14 9:15 ` Steinar Bang
1998-01-14 9:54 ` Tax (was: Re: Me, the businessperson) Per Abrahamsen
1998-01-12 7:13 ` Me, the businessperson Steinar Bang
1998-01-12 18:43 ` Dan Schmidt
1998-01-12 20:38 ` Jason R Mastaler
1998-01-12 21:17 ` Wes Hardaker
1998-01-12 21:57 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-01-13 0:14 ` Wes Hardaker
1998-01-13 1:13 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-01-14 16:28 ` Wes Hardaker
1998-01-13 13:51 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
1998-01-13 16:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-01-13 16:14 ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-01-13 16:28 ` Per Abrahamsen
1998-01-14 9:08 ` Steinar Bang
1998-01-13 16:33 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1998-01-13 16:39 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-01-14 8:21 ` Tore Olsen
1998-01-14 9:11 ` Steinar Bang
1998-01-14 9:19 ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-02-02 18:42 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-04 9:05 ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-04 9:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-04 9:20 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
[not found] ` <6fn2g74snl.fsf@bavur.dna.lth.se>
1998-02-04 11:07 ` Rolf Marvin B|e Lindgren
1998-02-04 18:43 ` Stephen Zander
1998-02-05 0:13 ` Nils Goesche
1998-02-04 17:42 ` Johan Danielsson [this message]
1998-02-04 21:13 ` Bud Rogers
1998-02-04 23:34 ` Wes Hardaker
1998-02-05 8:17 ` Jan Vroonhof
1998-02-08 16:03 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-04 12:21 ` Andy Eskilsson
1998-02-04 13:21 ` Per Abrahamsen
1998-02-04 16:05 ` Manoj Srivastava
1998-02-05 12:51 ` nnimap once more (Was: Me, the businessperson) Steinar Bang
1998-02-23 22:43 ` Anders Jackson
1998-02-05 8:17 ` Me, the businessperson Steinar Bang
1998-02-05 18:22 ` Bud Rogers
1998-01-14 16:28 ` Wes Hardaker
1998-01-13 7:08 ` Steinar Bang
1998-01-07 22:51 ` Me, the businessman Mats Löfdahl
1998-01-08 9:01 ` Lars Syrstad
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