On Aug 5, 10:19=A0pm, "J. Anderson" <anderso...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > J. Anderson wrote:
> >> "Dave Heil" <k...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>>The Swedish speaking minority makes up only about six percent of the
> >>>population. =A0For the most part, even Swedes have a tough time
> >>>understanding their Swedish.
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> >> 'For the most part', indeed.
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> >> For the most part non-dialectal Swedish as spoken in Finland is
> >> considered the most universally intelligible idiom within the Nordic
> >> area, i.e. easiest to understand for the greatest number of Nordics.
> > Icelanders, who speak Swedish as a second (or third etc) language seem
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> > all speak it as colloquial finlandssvenska. I loved to listen to
former
> > president Vigdis Finnbogadottir, who spoke beautiful fluent
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nka
> > also when addressing rikssvenskar.
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> Yep. Especially Icelanders but also Danes find finlandssvenska more
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> understandable than rikssvenska. So, often, do non-Nordics. Friends of
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ne
> from Latvia who speak Norwegian say that they have much less difficulty
> following Swedish TV programmes in Finland compared to TV in Sweden.
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> Finlandssvenska should be made the lingua franca of northern Europe.
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> even Finnish schoolboys would want to learn it =A0:-)- Hide quoted text
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It's somehow like English spoken by non-native speakers. On one EU
meeting girl from UK was presented as "real English speaker". Result?
Poor girl finds out all beauty of Shakespearean english - and no one
can't get a glue what she is talking.
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