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[HoreTore]

A place named Poulsbo must be danish. Pål is norwegian, poul is danish(and paul is english). Say the word out loud. Note the gutteral and awful sound you just made. Doesn't sound like the harmonious and melodic norwegian language, now does it...?

Anyway.... You mentioned lutefisk. Which is our crappy and uneatable foodstuff, it doesn't belong to those smelly meatballs to the east! They write the name for their version differently, but as swedish is impossible to read, I wouldn't know how they write it.

[Populus Romanus]

Nope, its Finnish. I've been there.

[Fisherking]

A place named Poulsbo must be danish. Pål is norwegian, poul is danish(and paul is english). Say the word out loud. Note the gutteral and awful sound you just made. Doesn't sound like the harmonious and melodic norwegian language, now does it...?

Anyway.... You mentioned lutefisk. Which is our crappy and uneatable foodstuff, it doesn't belong to those smelly meatballs to the east! They write the name for their version differently, but as swedish is impossible to read, I wouldn't know how they write it.

No when the town was named it was Paulsbo. Or what ever the place in Norway they came from was. When they sent an application for a Post Office the postmaster general misread the handwriting so the name became Poulsbo.

My wife speaks Norwegian. She has little trouble reading Swedish and Danish. She can’t understand much when it is spoken though. She reads the Old Norse from the Icelandic Sagas too though so maybe that helps.

But hop into your long ship just the same. The sea voyage might do you good and I would like to see what TSA dose when you get there.

[Ironside]

Anyway.... You mentioned lutefisk. Which is our crappy and uneatable foodstuff, it doesn't belong to those smelly meatballs to the east! They write the name for their version differently, but as swedish is impossible to read, I wouldn't know how they write it.

Det stavas "lutfisk" på svenska, men uppenbarligen kan du inte alls läsa det här. Och jag tror du blandar ihop det med "surströmming", som verkligen kan användas som ett luktmassförstörelsevapen.

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It's spelled "lutfisk" in Swedish, but obviously, you can't read this. And I think you mixed it up with "sörströmming", that really can be used as a weapon of smelly mass destruction.

No when the town was named it was Paulsbo. Or what ever the place in Norway they came from was. When they sent an application for a Post Office the postmaster general misread the handwriting so the name became Poulsbo.

My wife speaks Norwegian. She has little trouble reading Swedish and Danish. She can’t understand much when it is spoken though. She reads the Old Norse from the Icelandic Sagas too though so maybe that helps.

Paulsbo has to be changed someway even before. Closest Swedish word would be Pålsbo, but Pålsby is even more likely.

I'm not sure how much Norwegian differs within the country (they got two different languages, Bokmål and Nynorsk), but with the Nowegians I've spoken to, it's like a heavy accent. You'll understand almost all of it, with a bit of focus.

[HoreTore]

At any rate, it's translation is "paul's city", so I don't think its a place in the ol' country, rather some rather ambitious settler....

And no, Ironside, we don't have two languagues. We have to written languagues, but none of them are oral. When we speak, we instead have a myriad of different dialects. Some of them are hard to understand for foreigners, some of them we don't understand ourselves either. More so when spoken quickly. Fortunately, most of us brush up and talk the oslo-dialect when talking with people with limited knowledge.

Anyway. It sure isn't as bad as skånsk... It's good that Anna Anka is out of the news now, I would've killed myself if I had to endure more of her nose.

[Ironside]

And no, Ironside, we don't have two languagues. We have to written languagues, but none of them are oral. When we speak, we instead have a myriad of different dialects. Some of them are hard to understand for foreigners, some of them we don't understand ourselves either. More so when spoken quickly. Fortunately, most of us brush up and talk the oslo-dialect when talking with people with limited knowledge.

Anyway. It sure isn't as bad as skånsk... It's good that Anna Anka is out of the news now, I would've killed myself if I had to endure more of her nose.

True, poor explaination from my side. It became two written laguages after a half-failed writing reform iirc. I do have some vague memories that the regions were Nynosk is mostly used, the dialects are easier to understand for Swedes or something. Might be reversed even. One is easier to read for a Swede anyway.

And what's this? You mean you don't like people less useful than Paris Hilton and makes you wonder how the hell some people get famous?

[HoreTore]

Anka is a prostitute with full time employment. That's ok, what's not ok is her dialect...