Re: Norse, Vatican and Vinland

From: Per Rønne (spam_at_husumtoften.invalid)
Date: 07/08/04 

Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 15:00:42 +0200

Inger E Johansson <inger_e.johansson@notelia.com> wrote:

> So you don't know so much about Swedish as you believe, Per Rønne

Well, as a matter of fact I understood all of the sentences except for
one word: "havreskörd". But also I've experienced young Swedish boys who
tell Brits that Swedish really doesn't develop. And that you cannot hear
any difference in how Swedes in movies from the 1930s speak and how
Swedes speak to-day.

In Danish, on the other hand, when hearing interviews with kids from the
1970s, the kids speak rather strange. Too precise and rather like
"theatre Danish". They certainly don't speak that way to-day [in just
the same manner as Queen Elizabeth's language has changed over the
years] - and you are fully able to hear which decade a Dane was born in.

That is what I mean by Swedish being a very conservative language.

BTW, idioms are not necessarily that difficult to grasp. Furthermore,
you still haven't got an explanation of why the KRS was written i
Swedish instead of Old Norse? 

-- 
Per Erik Rønne

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