Re: Indo-European Languages and Gramatical Gender Loss

phoglund@xxxxxx skreiv:

On 15 kesä, 02:33, Trond Engen <trond...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Kjartan Fløgstad is the head name of the generation who had their debut around 1970. His use of the language is free and contemporary and he recieved a prize from the Norwegian union for linguistic unity (or whatever my lot call themselves in English).

Oh, _that_ lot. Nice. One of the first books about sociolinguistics
that I have read was "Språkleg samling på norske folkemåls grunn", a
collection of articles from "Språkleg samling".

Except that I don't really identify with them either (hence "my lot call themselves"). I write bokmål their way, but my personal agenda is rather "linguistic diversity". Bluntly, I see the current sociolingustic situation with what seems to be a slow but continuous strengthening of Riksmål/conservative Bokmål as a threat. Thus I sympathize with anything or anyone who goes against the trend. I do like Riksmål, however -- I just feel that it's exceding its natural role as a standard for the locals in parts of Oslo, Bergen and Trondheim.


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Trond Engen
-- oops, went political
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