Re: Scandinavian meeting.

On 5.3.2008 Julia "Schnecki" Simon wrote:
 > Unless he really came from the North, as Carsten pointed
 > out. But those dialects can be pretty scary for foreigners
 > too, I guess -- you expect people to speak something
 > resembling German and what you get is actually more like
 > Dutch or even (yikes!) Danish. ;-)

I'd guess that'd make them pretty intelligible to a Swedish-
Standard German from-birth bilingual who happens to be an
historical linguistics nerd. (No I don't see anyone fitting
that description -- no mirror in this room! ;-)

/BP 8^)>
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