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To: tejek who wrote (615223)6/7/2011 11:22:02 AM
From: Taro  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1586777
 
Danes may use what Swedes consider archaic forms of certain words and visa versa.

It more like Swedish is 'less developed' that Danish - at least that's the way the Danes like to see it.

Sweden thus has remained a language rich in forms and subtle grammatical variations, whereas Danish is rather plain and unsophisticated. Anybody listening to the 2 languages can easily detect that just based on how flat Danish sounds vs. the Swedish intonation.
Furthermore Danish just like Dutch is extremely guttural.

As for how close they are, Danish may be somewhat closer to Swedish than Dutch to German. But not much. Dutch actually originally is a West German dialect, with in this case German remaining the 'less developed' (= less simplified) language of the 2.

As much as the Dutch truly hate that, German and Dutch are both German languages.

/Taro



To: tejek who wrote (615223)6/7/2011 11:25:10 AM
From: TopCat  Respond to of 1586777
 
"Yes, I know there is no such thing as one Scandinavian language......"

Lying again, I see. You stated that "Danes and Swedes both speak Scandinavian" clearly implying that Scandinavian was a language.

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