Re: OT: Official language post
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 1, 2003, 16:19 |
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At 06:57 1.4.2003 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
>That's because Dutch is simple, easy, and obvious (until you get kicked in
>the head by some lexeme like "opstanding", the meaning of which nobody would
>ever guess), whereas Swedish is the province of Inscrutable Nordics who
>decided to make themselves even more inscrutable than before. Face it,
>North Germanic is *weird*.
Alls ekki! Þau eru helsta málin í heimunum!
At 09:28 30.3.2003 -0800, Joe wrote:
>I'm not sure if Gothic is the same. It's quite far removed from both
>Swedish(North Germanic), English, and German(both West Germanic)
OTOH if you know one Scandinavian language, German and English Dutch is easy,
since it looks like a pidgin of these three elements.
/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)
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