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Re: linguistic "flavours" (was Re: Missing Words)

From:Markus Miekk-oja <torpet@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 27, 2002, 17:54
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From: M. Å. <moriquende@...>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 10:59 PM
Subject: Re: linguistic "flavours" (was Re: Missing Words)


> >From: BP Jonsson <melroch@...> > > > >If you mean that Swedish is bland in comparison to Norwegian I'm all with > >you! :-) > >Icelandic then is a salty, chunky fish soup with accompanying > >_brennivín_... > > Plus, as I've at least somehow used to Swedish stressing, Norwegian sounds > chaotic in my ears. Are you perhaps Norwegian, then? :) > Danish is the hot potato they are rumoured to be keeping in their mouth
when
> speaking. ;) (<- all Danes please see the emoticon) Maybe they got the > potato from the Nordic Soup. >
What is different between the finlandssvensk soup, and the rikssvensk soup then? (An important question to the conspiracy, us don't wanting to be considered riksswedish either...)