Re: CHAT: Multi-Lingos

Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:

> Also, Scandinavians often agree to speak in a kind of common tongue,
> "Skandinavisk". While working in tourism in Iceland, I've had people come to
> me or call and ask first if I speak "Skandinavisk". I immediately say yes
> and we begin; speaking this "language" involves modifying whichever Nordic
> language you speak to make it as comprehensible as possible, avoiding any
> localisms or idiosyncracies. No two persons speak the same Scandinavian.
> People have had long conversations this way, including me. I'd like sometime
> to see a standard version of this lingo, actually. Then we could kill, once
> and for all, the use of English among Scandinavians (which is also common).
That would, of course, entail the same kind of resistance that people
now give to English:  people would fear losing their local identity to
those *foreigners*.  :)

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