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Re: CHAT: Multi-Lingos

From:Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
Date:Monday, August 21, 2000, 15:49
> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 13:45:57 GMT > From: Oskar Gudlaugsson <hr_oskar@...>
> Actually, a whole TV show was based on this; "Kontrapunkt", an > inter-Scandinavian (including Iceland and Finland) competition in knowledge > of classical music. The host was from Southern Sweden, speaking his own > peculiar Skaane dialect; the judge was Danish, speaking his own language > just as he'd do to a fellow countryman; the contestants spoke in their own > languages, with Iceland using Danish and Finland using Swedish; no English > was allowed (or at least was not heard). Then, audience from all over the > Nordic world enjoyed the show with the multiple variations on their > mother-tongue, "Skandinavisk". I always watched it, having no interest in > the music and the competition itself, just enjoying the interplay of related > dialects and languages.
[dO@marEn s{@gar at: sva@rEd E r{@t]. That was an excellent show --- I did watch it for the music, but it was very interesting to hear the languages too. Most Danes thought that the Finns who had Swedish as a secondary language were the easiest to understand (after the Danish speakers), because they spoke Swedish in (slow) syllable timing and without tonal accents. Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)