Re: USAGE: hate = jealous (was: Re: YAPT: Dutch ij and ui)

Staving Andreas Johansson:
>Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:
>
> > Roger Mills wrote:
> >
> > > It's amazing that languages are still taught that way.  It's how I
> learned
> > > Spanish back in the 50s. Although I was #1 in my Spanish classes, when I
> > > stepped off the plane in Madrid I was utterly tongue-tied, and couldn't
> > > understand a word of what people were saying. Spanish speakers have often
> > > said that my spoken Span. is "bookish". (Though at the height of my
> > fluency,
> > > I was immensely flattered when someone asked what country I came from!?)
> >
> > All adult Icelanders were always praising my excellent Icelandic, but
> > a little girl spoke the truth: _Af hverju talar hann eins og bók_
> > "Why does he speak like a book?"
>
>Don't worry. I've been asked that _in Swedish_.

Well, the Swedish-influenced form of Norwegian is "Bokmål".

Pete

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