On 6 Aug, 19:22, D K Palm <dan_p...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On 5 Aug, 22:20, "J. Anderson" <anderso...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "vello" <vellok...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Aug 5, 10:19 pm, "J. Anderson" <anderso...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >> Finlandssvenska should be made the lingua franca of northern
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> > >> even Finnish schoolboys would want to learn it :-)- Hide quoted
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> > > It's somehow like English spoken by non-native speakers.
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> > Actually not. Finland Swedish is very distinct and clear. If you want
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> > compare it with English, it's more like how non-dialectal English is
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> > in Scotland.
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> > Finland Swedish is like Swedish used to sound a couple of centuries
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> > before they ruined their own language in Sweden. It also has a richer
> > vocabulary. In Sweden people have forgotten the meaning of nice old
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> > like 't=E4ckas', 'n=E4nnas', 'idas' etc.
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> Hmmm....the "forgotten" words do often exist in various west-Swedish
> dialects and not only in east-Swedish talked in Finland.
> However languages do evolve, even if we sometimes may not like what it
> evolves in to. Even if I may not like every sentence to be started of
> by a 'h=F6rredudu' and ended by a 'liksom', I do see that we can not
> stop the progression of any language, to even attempt to are just
> silly.
> Swedish have always been heavily influenced by other languages, mostly
> by Plaaten-D=FCtch, but also by French, German, Finnish, Romani and now
> English and Merkan.
> However as long as Swedish do evolve it shows it's still alive.
Evolves or degenerates? Time will tell ...
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