Re: CHAT: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences)

Daniel Andreasson wrote:
>Frank George Valoczy wrote:
>
> > And when I went to visit my cousin in Sweden and heard
> > Swedish for the first time I nearly passed out...I
> > remember his dad cracking up when I asked why everybody
> > is singing all the time...
>
>And that was down in Lund, where they speak the hideous dialect
>_skånska_ 'Scanian'. ;) You should hear us up here in Stockholm.
>Much prettier. :)
Stockholmare? I sincerely hope you keep /e:/ and /E:/ apart in that case ...

Well, if any of you foreignish types are going to Sweden, avoid the province
of Östergötland where I live since 10-ish years. The locals, among other
things, render /r/ as [w]. My younger sister Rebecka gets really furious
when dialect-speakers render her name as [wE"beka].

                                                        Andreas
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