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Re: Fransk Dansk-Norse Dictionary

From:Paul Bennett <paul.w.bennett@...>
Date:Sunday, February 17, 2008, 4:50
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:44:22 -0500, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
wrote:

> Quoting Scotto Hlad <scott.hlad@...>: > >> A while back, I picked up a dictionary at a flea market. It is Fransk >> Dansk-Norse. While I understand that it translates between French and >> Danish-Norwegian, I'm not sure what Danish-Norwegian is. Could it be >> another >> name for Bokmal or Nynorsk? > > It would refer to Bokmål (also known in English as Dano-Norwegian).
Doesn't Dano-Norwegian refer to Riksmål? AIUI, wasn't that the "classical" dialect of Danish used by the educated urbanites in Norway pre-Bokmål, as opposed to the "vulgate" Norwegian dialects that were koinized into Nynorsk? Paul -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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