Re: So it is true...

> > >When I spent some time working in Copenhagen I was told by my
> > >Danish colleagues that they could understand spoken Swedish but the
> > >Swedes could not understand spoken Danish. I guess that reading the
> > >text wouldn't be too bad for either of them but to me it seemed
> > >that the Danes only pronounced about half the letters in a word -
> > >and those appeared to change ramdomly as far as I was concerned :-)
> >
> > Danish is to Swedish what Portuguese is to Spanish?
>
> More or less. Except that Portuguese only keeps the consonants, and
> Danish only keeps the wovels.

yup, [@@@@ @ @@ @@ @@@] :-)


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