Re: Columbian Danish (was: political Zera)

At 17:55 12.4.2000 +0200, Kristian Jensen wrote:
> >
> >But I thought you were referring to the old belief that those dialects
> >are little changed since Viking times, and that West Jutland fishermen
> >are able talk to Scottish ditto when they meet at sea because their
> >dialects are still similar. (That's more probably due to a sort of
> >trade language, perhaps combined with a shared set of sea words ---
> >taboo replacements for words that will offend the sea).
I've heard the same in Bohusia and Norway.  Of course Lowland Scots *was*
more affected by Old Scandinavian than more southerly AngloSaxon, and there
has been a whole lot of parallel innovation and change too (including that
AS /a:/ has developed into LlS /Ei/, thus bringing it closer to
Scandinavian than it was *then*.)  The popular mind seldom takes account of
these factors.

Bohusians  and northern Jutlanders understand each other quite well when
speaking traditional dialect, BTW! :-)




/BP

 B.Philip Jonsson  <mailto:bpj@...>bpj@netg.se
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