Why Hate France??

In your dreams pal. :no: :laugh4:

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Originally Posted by Kraxis

I feel insulted! Danish is about the most difficult language there is to learn. Not only do we speak in a different manner everybody else (more or less), our grammar is so filled with excemptions from the rules that we have in all reality abandoned it (thus forcing people to learn it by hearing and reading it), our spoken language is nothing like the written, even if you follow Danish rules of pronouncation. And finally the rate of change in the language is extremely fast, forcing changes of spelling and meanings in the dictionaries, despite the best efforts of various societies to slow this down to a more manageable level.

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That is typical! We, the Germans, do everything we can to make our language more complex and those neighbors in the north do not show any respect for our efforts.:no:
We have different societies who try to complicate and unstandardize our language. And with some patriotic pride I can say that they are very effective!

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Originally Posted by Franconicus

That is typical! We, the Germans, do everything we can to make our language more complex and those neighbors in the north do not show any respect for our efforts.:no:
We have different societies who try to complicate and unstandardize our language. And with some patriotic pride I can say that they are very effective!

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Ha! Denmark is small, yet we have huge regional differences in the language. I can hardly understand what a true Bornholmer says, or a fisherman from Hirtshals (in northern Jutland), in fact said fisherman has been proven to be able to talk to natives in one of the English fishingports (not speaking English of course). And southern Jutland is quite far out too...

Danish = downright impossible.

Dazzler!:oops:

Here in the south every village had its own language. WW2 mixed them a bit.

However, we have something unique: We had a reform of spelling, where smart professors thought how they could rearrange the way we write. Most people, however, refused to follow their advice. So we had at least three reforms of the reforms, some rules are completly user-defined. Pupils do get new books every year, most of our famous German poets and philosophers declared they will go on usin the old rules ... .

How can a small country like Denmark try to compete with our chaos? Best thing you can do is join us. Then we will send you a lot of money and administration. We ahve a lot of experience with that. By the way, is there a wall at the frontier?:laugh4:

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Originally Posted by Kraxis

Ha! Denmark is small, yet we have huge regional differences in the language. I can hardly understand what a true Bornholmer says, or a fisherman from Hirtshals (in northern Jutland), in fact said fisherman has been proven to be able to talk to natives in one of the English fishingports (not speaking English of course). And southern Jutland is quite far out too...

Danish = downright impossible.

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A Norwegian in Newcastle can speak to the locals in Norwegian and get on better than a Southern Englishman. Can you remember which Port? I'm a English Scholar.

No sadly I can't, I only heard it once when I was a child on the radio (state-radio) where they had a program on the regional dialects. I haven't tried to dig up any info on it since. But it could be York or Newcastle... for some reason both of them ring a bell.