Re: CHAT: Subtitles (was: Re: Proto-Romance)
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 26, 2004, 18:16 |
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At 10:55 25.3.2004, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>In Scandinavia, you've essentially got a continuum of dialects, which are
>classed as Swedish, Norwegian or Danish solely based on which side of the
>borders they are. This has seen Scanian going from a Danish dialect to a
>Swedish one.
And as my dad was fond to point out Bohuslän dialect would be
equally badly suited by Norwegian orthography as by Swedish
orthography. FWIW the inhabitants on the eastern bank of
Göta River still call their neighbors on the western bank
_Baggar_, a derogatory term for 'Norwegian'.
/BP 8^)
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